Glossary

Navigation menus is a regularly used term in WordPress Glossary which allows a user to create custom menus in WordPress to display WordPress posts, pages and custom links. Check this article to know about Navigation menus in WordPress and uses of Navigation menus in WordPress?

What are Navigation Menus in WordPress?

Menus or Navigation menus is a theme feature in WordPress which allows a user to create custom menus in WordPress. Users can add WordPress posts, pages, categories and custom links to navigation menus using drag and drop functionality. Users can change their menu items appearance by adding custom classes.

Some WordPress themes support multiple menus so that a user can create header, footer and secondary navigation menus for their blog. Users can also add their custom navigation menus in the sidebar using widgets.

A user can create navigation menus for their blog under Appearance > Menus by logging in their WordPress dashboard.

What are the uses of Navigation menus in WordPress?

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An Administrator can define Media Settings for WordPress media files to automatically generate new image sizes and add additional images sizes on every uploaded image. In this article lets discuss, how to Configure Media Settings in WordPress.

How to Configure Media Settings in WordPress?

In order to change the media settings, go to settings >> Media in WordPress dashboard and configure the image sizes as per your needs.

The default image sizes of WordPress are a thumbnail, medium, large and the original size. WordPress allows you to change the media settings under WordPress settings that will affect newly uploaded images.

Once you uploaded the images, WordPress will store the original images without doing any modifications. After it becomes an attachment when it is inserted to any post, system will modify the dimensions to the original image as per media settings.

The first option under media settings is image sizes.  [Read more…] about How to Configure Media Settings in WordPress?

Every WordPress file is important to run your website properly. The .htaccess (hypertext access) is one of the important files in WordPress core files which will completely change the way your website interact with its server.

Many WordPress users who are hosting their own blog are still unaware of the .htaccess file in WordPress. In this article, I’ll talk about what is .htaccess file and how to find and create the .htaccess file in WordPress.

What is .htaccess in WordPress?

The .htaccess file is a configuration file that gives instructions to your website server on how to handle your website content.

You can override many server configuration settings and enable/disable the new functionality and features through a .htaccess file in WordPress.

What we can do with .htaccess?

• Rewrite the URL’s and make them SEO friendly.
• Redirect visitors from old URL’s to new URL’s.
• Protect your website directories with a password.
• Create a custom 404 pages to show a friendly error page for your website visitors.
• Add a custom maintenance page.
• Improve caching for better speed.
• Allow or deny visitors by IP address.
• Stop image Hotlinking.

Where we can found .htaccess file?

The .htaccess file is not only associated with WordPress but you can also found on any Apache web hosting servers. The .htaccess file usually found in WordPress root folder after installing WordPress on your web hosting server. In some cases, by default .htaccess file stays in hidden mode and your Cpanel or FTP client unable to show your file. To see these files you need to enable show hidden files option in your Cpanel or FTP client.

Let’s check, how to view a .htaccess file.

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