WordPress & Theme Tutorials

Your WordPress platform allows you to edit your web content (wording & images). It also allows you to do a lot more than that.

You have general WordPress settings, you can extend the functionality of your website with WordPress plugins and change the whole look of your website with WordPress themes.

Divi Premium Theme

If you have selected a Hostback Layout (Divi Premium Theme) click the button below to learn how to edit your website content and more.

Premium Theme Tutorials

General WordPress Settings

Accessing Your WordPress Dashboard

To login to the Dashboard/Admin Area of WordPress you will need: Login URL/Link – The standard WordPress URL/Link is your domain name that ends with /wp-admin. Example: YourDomain.co.uk/wp-admin Admin Username or Email Address Admin Password When you visit your WordPress URL/Link you will see the Username & Password boxes. Type

Site Title & Tagline

The website Title & Tagline are what search engines (Google) read first so it’s important to change this to suit your business. Once updated – the new title and tagline will appear on the browser tab when you view the website. To begin. You will need to log into the

Set Permalinks

By default – WordPress shows your page URL’s / Address’s ending with the day and name. It’s much better to show your URL’s / Address’s by post name only. To begin. You will need to log into the Dashboard/Admin Area of WordPress. If you need to know how to do

Blog Category Setup

To ensure your blog posts are kept in order and displayed in the correct locations – it’s always best to keep them categorised. To begin. You will need to log into the Dashboard/Admin Area of WordPress. If you need to know how to do this – click here. Once logged

Setting Your Home Page (Static Page)

By default WordPress adds your Blog page as the Homepage which is the first thing visitors see. We suggest that you change this to a static page that you can then design. To begin. You will need to log into the Dashboard/Admin Area of WordPress. If you need to know

Make Readable By Search Engines

To ensure your website can be read by Google and other search engines – we suggest that you check the following setting that can block search engines from seeing your website.: To begin. You will need to log into the Dashboard/Admin Area of WordPress. If you need to know how

Installing WordPress

If you have decided not to use our premium website theme, which is included in your plan, you can install WordPress yourself. To do this – you must login to your cPanel / Web hosting account. If you need to know how to do this – click here. Once logged

WordPress Password Change

To change your WordPress admin account password. You will need to log into the Dashboard/Admin Area of WordPress. If you need to know how to do this – click here. Click on Users – (Left-hand menu). On this screen – you will see a list of users currently on the

Pages, Posts, & Menus

Adding a Page

To begin. You will need to log into the Dashboard/Admin Area of WordPress. If you need to know how to do this – click here. Click on Pages – Left hand menu. Click Add New (Button located at the top). Give your page a title and add content. When completed

Deleting a Page

To begin. You will need to log into the Dashboard/Admin Area of WordPress. If you need to know how to do this – click here. Click on Pages – (Left-hand menu). Hover the mouse cursor over the page you want to delete. & click Trash/Bin from the menu that appears.

Creating Posts

To begin. You will need to log into the Dashboard/Admin Area of WordPress. If you need to know how to do this – click here. To begin. you will need to Create a Category to assign your post to. Click Posts (Left-hand menu) & then click Categories. Give your

Editing the Menu

To begin. You will need to log into the Dashboard/Admin Area of WordPress. If you need to know how to do this – click here. To add Pages to the main menu: Click Appearance (Left-hand menu). Then click on Menus. By default, you will see a list of pages displayed

Themes

Adding A WordPress Theme

If you are unable to build your website yourself. You could add a prebuilt website to WordPress known as a Theme. As mentioned above a WordPress Theme is basically a website that contains pages, menu items and more, all ready created for you by a member of the WordPress online

Free Themes

If you don’t want to utilise our Premium Website Theme and would like to add a FREE Theme to your WordPress Platform, we would suggest the themes below. The reason we recommend these themes is because they have over 30,000 active installations. Theme Type Active installs Rating Hestia Multipurpose

Plugins

Adding a Plugin

To begin. You will need to log into the Dashboard/Admin Area of WordPress. If you need to know how to do this – click here. On the left-hand side, you will see a menu. In that menu, click on Plugins and then click on Add New In the search bar

Maintenance Mode

To begin. You will need to log into the Dashboard/Admin Area of WordPress. If you need to know how to do this – click here. Having the Maintenance Mode plugin installed enables you to easily place the site into maintenance on the front end that everyone sees while you update

SEO – Yoast Plugin

You will first need to add your Yoast Plugin to the website. If you don’t know how to do this – Click Here. Once you have added Yoast to the website. Below are links to Yoast guides that show you how to configure the plugin to your requirements: Click Here

Hostback Theme

Premium Theme Tutorials

Included in all our HostBacker Plans is a Premium Website Theme. Unlike FREE WordPress Themes, because this theme is Premium – you will receive regular Theme Updates from the provider as and when released so you can update the site on a regular basis to enhance the theme’s functionality and