How to uninstall a language in WordPress

‘New translations available’ When you open the admin console in WordPress, you will see at the top whether there are updates for your website. Often these are plugin updates or WordPress updates, but it can also be annoying translation updates. It’s important to keep your website up-to-date, but the translation updates come on a daily … Continue reading How to uninstall a language in WordPress

FIX: You are currently editing the page that shows your latest posts WordPress

I’m not editing the page that shows your latest posts! I moved from Godaddy to a Dutch hosting provider.I did the move myself, but here I think something went wrong with the import of the database.I was not immediately aware of this because I don’t write a post every day, but at one point I … Continue reading FIX: You are currently editing the page that shows your latest posts WordPress

FIX: Website only shows the homepage 404 WordPress

The headache I gave myself a headache this week by accidentally throwing away my entire WordPress blog in FTP. Fortunately I have set up a backup in cPanel with Installatron. Only, after the backup restore my website still didn’t work properly. I could only go to the homepage and I also received an error message … Continue reading FIX: Website only shows the homepage 404 WordPress

FIX: Sorry we were unable to save your configuration Adsense WordPress

Summary I have reviewed this blog post and I no longer think that the content is very relevant, but because this post has been popular and some may still use the Google Publisher plugin, I keep the blog post for now. The plugin itself has been removed and can therefore no longer be downloaded. I … Continue reading FIX: Sorry we were unable to save your configuration Adsense WordPress

How to remove the background from Google Ads by Bas Wijdenes

Google Adsense Ads and their default background ‘ins’. When you implement Google Adsense ads in your website Adsense gives a number of css values ​​to the advertisements.One of these values ​​is ‘ins’, ins sets the background-color for the ad blocks. Ins means ‘insterted’. Most CMSes such as WordPress have a default background color for ins, … Continue reading How to remove the background from Google Ads by Bas Wijdenes

How to use the Google Open Sans font in WordPress by Bas Wijdenes

Google web fonts in WordPress. Google has its own web fonts and one of these fonts is Open Sans. Personally, I think this is one of the most professional looks on the internet. I also like to use Google Open Sans on my WordPress sites. As usual, you can easily use the Open Sans font … Continue reading How to use the Google Open Sans font in WordPress by Bas Wijdenes

How to customize the default avatar in WordPress by Bas Wijdenes

Why can’t I customize the Avatar by default in WordPress? I have no idea why you can not change this by default. You would expect that there is an upload tool, or that you can make an image the default avatar image. There are different ways to use a different default Avatar in WordPress.For example, … Continue reading How to customize the default avatar in WordPress by Bas Wijdenes

How to add an extra sidebar in WordPress by Bas Wijdenes

Introducing an extra sidebar in WordPress. In this blog post I explain how you can add an extra sidebar to a WordPress site. I used the Twenty Fifteen Theme from the WordPress developers myself in the blog post, but of course this also applies to other themes. I started looking at a second sidebar because … Continue reading How to add an extra sidebar in WordPress by Bas Wijdenes

How to remove WordPress self-pingbacks from your website

The technical steps first, then the explanation, We will remove WordPress ping backs with this tutorial. With this blog post I assume you have a Child theme, if you don’t please Google a Child theme in WordPress first. Open your child theme directory in an FTP tool such as FileZilla, or update the files directly … Continue reading How to remove WordPress self-pingbacks from your website

How to add a (2) footer widgets in the WordPress Twenty Fifteen theme

Let’s add a footer widget first in the WordPress Twenty Fifteen theme. There are several tutorials on the internet that add one footer widget that covers the entire width. I think that is a waste of most space. Why not divide the entire width into 2 widgets? The two widgets that I explain here are … Continue reading How to add a (2) footer widgets in the WordPress Twenty Fifteen theme