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  New Theme Uses Featured Images but You Don’t Have that in Many Posts There are many blogs that don’t use featured images for every post. Now, if they want to switch to a new theme which supports featured images, they definitely don’t want to spend hours updating every post. In this case, you can install the ‘Quick Featured Images’ plugin. It’s one of the best ways that solve this issue easily. You just need to install, activate and follow some simple instructions. It will automatically add featured images to all the old posts. You Can’t See the Changes You Made Recently If you’ve made some changes in core files of your   WordPress Themes or just added something in the external CSS section and it doesn’t show up at the front end. You probably have one of two caching issues: Browser Cache or Plugin Cache. You can clear the browser cache by just pressing CTRL+R. If it fixes the issue, congratulations. Otherwise, the problem is associated with the plugin caching. Just go t...

1.  My URL’s Are “Ugly” By default the default WordPress url structure isn’t very “pretty” much less SEO-Friendly. So when you first setup your website URLS might look ugly (a mish-mash of the post ID, publish date, post title and even the category). Don’t worry – it’s easy to fix. Ugly URLs Error Solution So if your urls aren’t looking that great (yourwebsite.com/?p=1) simply go to  Settings > Permalinks  and change your setting to the “Post Name” option (or any of the others – just choose the one that best works for you). 2 . My Posts Are Returning 404 Errors If you have posts that are now returning a 404 error page, don’t panic (yet) most of the time your posts are still there and you just need to update your permalink settings to fix the issue. This is very common with themes that use custom post types. Whenever you activate a new theme that uses custom post types you should reset your permalink settings. Posts Showing 404 Error Solution The sim...

  1. Stylesheet Is Missing You’ve just downloaded or purchased a super awesome theme and you go to install it and see the lovely message below: Well your first thought might be… “the developer screwed me and gave me a theme without a stylesheet” Of course it is possible the zip file you received didn’t have a style.css file, but more likely the issue is you didn’t upload the  root theme  folder. Missing Stylesheet Error Solution Locate the folder you have of the theme on your desktop and open it (if it is zipped, unzip and open it). Now when you open it you should see all your files in there, if not the theme is likely in a sub-directory. For example our premium themes all have the theme inside an “Installable Theme” folder. Generally it’s somewhere obvious and the actual theme folder will likely be named the same as the theme. Once found zip it and upload via WordPress or upload the unzipped folder via FTP. 2. Sample Data Import Errors You’ve got your WordPress Themes i...

  WordPress themes control the look and feel of your WordPress blog, from the layout and graphics to the colors of text and links. When something is broken within your theme, you may see a distorted or incorrect layout when you access your blog. The most extreme issues may display PHP errors on your blog, which indicate broken coding in your theme. If you have made changes to your WordPress theme coding or use custom images, you should back up your WordPress theme before troubleshooting, in the case you need to reinstall completely. Backing Up WordPress Theme Files You will need a FTP client and the FTP account login information to back up your WordPress theme files. Log into the FTP client and navigate to the “wp-content/themes” folder on your website host. You will see a list of folders, each named for the different themes that are installed on your blog. Highlight the theme folder you are troubleshooting and transfer it to a folder on your computer in order to create a backup. E...