How Do You Configure Your WordPress Website’s Homepage to Be The Latest Postings?

Problem scenario
You no longer want a static landing page for your website’s home page. You are using WordPress. What should you do?

Solution
1. Log into WordPress
2. Go to Settings -Reading
3. For the “Your homepage displays”, choose the radio button for “Your latest posts”.

How Do You Place Advertisement Banners in Your WordPress Website?

Problem Scenario
You have some rectangular icon image files that are advertisements. You want to post them for your advertiser in your WordPress website. What should you do?

Possible Solution #1 (if you can provide CSS code)
1. Log into WordPress
2. Appearance -Themes
3. Find which theme is active and click “Customize”.
4. Click “Additional CSS”
5.

How Do You Change Your WordPress Website’s Icon at The top of a Web Browser’s Tab?

Problem scenario
You are using WordPress and you want to change the icon that your website has (e.g., in a tab of a web browser). How do you change the website’s icon when you use WordPress?

Solution
1. Log into WordPress
2. Appearance -Themes
3. Find which theme is active and click “Customize”.
4. Click “Site Identity”
5.

How Do You Identify or Determine which WordPress Theme Your Website is Using?

Problem scenario
You see that many WordPress themes can be updated. But you do not want to update a theme that you are not using. How do you find out what WordPress theme your website is using?

Solution
Log into WordPress. Go to Appearance -Themes. Find which one is active and it should say which one it is.

Why Cannot You Browse to a URL Path with a File Name in a Web Browser when the index.html File is Available?

Problem scenario
You know foobar.html is in a directory on a web server that houses index.html. You cannot go to foobar.html in a web browser — but you can go to index.html. How do you fix this?

Possible solution #1
Are the permissions of foobar.html different from index.html? Is there a slight spelling error in the file name on the back-end?

How Do You Troubleshoot the Error Message “Client sent an HTTP request to an HTTPS server”?

Problem scenario
You run curl commands, but you keep getting this error “Client sent an HTTP request to an HTTPS server.” What should you do?

Possible Solution #1
Use https instead of http. See this for more information.

Possible Solution #2
The “problem” is not actually a problem or a true error message.

How Do You Determine What WordPress Theme Your Website Is Using?

Problem scenario
You use WordPress. You want to find (or identify) what theme you are using. What should you do?

Solution

  1. Find the URL you use to browse WordPress (e.g., with wp-admin).
  2. Hack (or create or draft) the URL in text by making it follow this convention: https://www.foobar.com/wp-admin/themes.php
  3. Be logged into WordPress, and then browse to that drafted/hacked URL.

How Do You Log Out of a Company’s Website?

Problem scenario
You are logged into an e-commerce website or a utility website. When you click log out, the page refreshes. You never really log out (as you are logged back in automatically). What are you doing wrong?

Possible Solution
Close the web browser that does not log you out. Try a different web browser (e.g., use Firefox if a different web browser had the problem).