Shashank Dubey

How to Add an XML File to WordPress

XML shows up in WordPress in a handful of specific, unrelated contexts, and conflating them is where most confusion starts. Sometimes “adding an XML … Read more

Shashank Dubey · September 24, 2024 · 10 min read

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How to Access Archive Pages in WordPress

Archive pages do a lot of quiet work on a WordPress site. They’re the automatically generated listings behind your category links, your tag links, … Read more

September 24, 2024 · 10 min read

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How to Access WordPress Admin with a Critical Error Warning

“There has been a critical error on your website” is one of the most alarming messages WordPress can show you, mostly because it tells … Read more

September 24, 2024 · 10 min read

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How Many Tables Are in a Default WordPress Installation?

A fresh WordPress install creates twelve database tables before you write a single post. Here's what each one stores, how they relate to each other in a typical query, when plugins should extend them versus create their own tables, and what causes database bloat over time.

September 23, 2024 · 10 min read

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How do you Manually Overwrite the robots.txt File in WordPress

The robots.txt file is one of the smallest files on your server and one of the easiest to get badly wrong. One misplaced slash … Read more

September 23, 2024 · 10 min read

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Does Supply Chain Impact WordPress Sites?

Most WordPress owners never think about supply chains until something outside their control breaks their site. A hosting provider has a bad night. A … Read more

September 23, 2024 · 10 min read

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Do WordPress Tags Help with Your Social Media Posts?

WordPress tags don't connect directly to any social platform, but they play a real, indirect role in social strategy through SEO, content discoverability, and hashtag ideas. Here's exactly how the connection works, and what tags cannot do for social growth.

September 23, 2024 · 10 min read

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Do Plugins Have Shortcodes in WordPress?

Shortcodes let WordPress plugins expose complex functionality through a single bracketed tag. Here's how the mechanism actually works under the hood, how to build your own with proper escaping, and where plugin dependency and security gaps tend to bite.

September 23, 2024 · 10 min read

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Can You Make a Living with WordPress on Upwork?

Can you actually build a full-time income doing WordPress work on Upwork? Yes, but it takes more than listing skills. Here's what separates freelancers who scale into stable retainer income from the ones who stall out sending generic proposals.

September 23, 2024 · 10 min read

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Can You Create an Android App from a WordPress Site?

Turning a WordPress site into a working Android app usually means choosing between a WebView wrapper, deeper plugin integration, or a fully native build. Here's how each approach works, what to test before launch, and the mistakes that get apps abandoned within a year.

September 23, 2024 · 10 min read

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Can WordPress do e-Commerce?

WordPress handles eCommerce through WooCommerce, from installation and product setup to theme selection and conversion optimization. Covers plugin choice, checkout decisions, extending the store as it grows, and when a service marketplace plugin fits better than a product-based store.

September 23, 2024 · 10 min read