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”.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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Problem scenario
You are logged into Target. You want to log out. You click the “Logout” option, but it does not work. What should you do?

Solution

1. Go to this URL in the same tab that you are logged in as: www.target.com/logout#
2. Hit enter.
3. Now refresh the page after the URL loaded.

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Problem scenario
You are trying to remove curl with dnf or yum commands. You cannot do it because dnf or yum requires curl. What should you do to reinstall curl?

Solution
Prerequisites
You need make installed. If you need assistance with this, see this posting.

Procedures
Manually back up then delete curl.

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