In this tutorial, we cover how to change Permalinks for your WordPress website. WordPress will automatically create Permalinks that include the date and time. You can change these Permalinks and customize them to suit your specific style. Remember: you cannot have duplicate URLs or Permalinks for your WordPress site. Each Permalink must have a unique slug; ‘slug’ is a short term from news media used within an agency to identify an article – the part of a URL that appears after the last … Read More


This article shows you how to invite a User to access a WordPress website or blog and assumes that you are already logged in to WordPress. WordPress User AccountsHow To Invite A User To Access A WordPress SiteAdditional Information:Why Should You Give Access to Your WordPress Website?Removing UsersLogin to Hosted.com AccountAccess WordPress via Your Hosted.com AccountAccess WordPress via cPanelAccess WordPress via cPanel Online WordPress User Accounts WordPress allows you to create various leve… Read More


The Reading settings on a WordPress website, allow you to change the configuration of your WordPress site’s settings, blog pages, RSS feed settings, etc. to customize your WordPress site. Change Your WordPress Reading SettingsThe Various Reading Settings:Additional Information:Why Change the Reading SettingsRSS Feed Explained Change Your WordPress Reading Settings To access your WordPress Dashboard, you need to first sign in to your Hosted.com account. 1. Login to your Hosted.com account with y… Read More


This tutorial discusses how to change the language on your WordPress site, this is particularly important when your business is expanding into regions or countries where the language is not English. A language-based website relevant to that region can be an effective marketing tool – read up more on the following blogs: – Domain vs Subdomain: What’s the Difference?- Multilingual Websites: Single domain vs multiple domains?- The Ultimate WordPress Multisite Domain Mapping Guide Changing Langua… Read More


The Writing Settings will allow you to change the formatting, content type, email posting, markdown on your site. Default Post Format The majority of Themes on WordPress do not support multiple post formats. The default is “Standard”  Other options are: Aside – Image – Video – Link – Quote – Gallery – Status  Markdown When switched on, allows you to write posts in markdown format. Markdown is a light markup language that one can use to add formatting elements to plain text posts. Date and Time… Read More


To create a Privacy Policy webpage, you can either create your own or use the template provided by WordPress: On the WordPress Dashboard go to “Settings” and select “Privacy Page” Click “Use this Page” and it will save a Privacy Page to your website   WordPress Hosting      … Read More


These Writing Settings are specific to the WordPress Admin Dashboard. Click the “View” tab in the upper right corner of the Dashboard and the select “Classic View” Formatting  Convert symbolic emoticons into the graphical emoticon e.g. 🙂 will display as a smiley face Correct invalid nested XHTML which may cause problems with your layout, ensure that you double check your layout that it is correctly presenting on the page. Default Post Category Applies a default category selection for a p… Read More


How to backup a WordPress website with Hosted.com has never been easier, as we take the worry out of it for you, with daily Acronis backups of all our hosted WordPress servers and their websites. If you need to restore your website and are uncertain as to how to proceed, please reach out to our Support Team and they will be happy to assist you. WordPress Hosting Table of Contents
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To change the Title and Tagline of your WordPress site, you must first be logged in to your Hosted.com Account and have accessed WordPress via cPanel Control Panel. Two Methods to Change the Title and TaglineMethod 1Method 2Additional Information:Website Titles vs. TaglinesThe Importance of Your WordPress Website’s TitleLogin to Hosted.com AccountLogin in to WordPress via cPanel Two Methods to Change the Title and Tagline Method 1 Navigate to your WordPress Dashboard. Click “Appearance” i… Read More


This article covers steps on how to change a WordPress password, and assumes that you have logged into your Hosted.com account and have accessed WordPress via the cPanel control panel, or alternatively you have logged into WordPress online. Changing a WordPress password, is one of the most important security tasks you have to do as soon as you activate WordPress, because there is a default Admin password that is most commonly sought in hacker attacks. Change A WordPress PasswordWordPress Dashbo… Read More