The FirstSiteGuide Blog

What is Page in WordPress and How to Create Pages?

Updated: November 4th, 2025 Be the first to comment Category: Blogging

WordPress pages are the standard built-in post type that allows you to publish content onto your WordPress blog. However, the option of using pages wasn’t previously an option until WordPress released version 1.5 in 2005. Before that time, WordPress primarily functioned as a blogging tool that only let users write and publish posts. Eventually, users […] Read the full story

The Difference Between Posts vs. Pages in WordPress

Updated: November 4th, 2025 Be the first to comment Category: Blogging

When you create a new blog and open the WordPress dashboard for the first time and decide to start writing your first article, you might get confused. Should you create a new post or a new page? Are there any differences between the two? The short answer is – yes, there are differences. Posts and […] Read the full story

How to Find and Validate Your Niche As a Blogger

Updated: November 4th, 2025 15 Comments Category: Blogging

This article is a part of our in-depth guide on How to Start a Blog. Before you start a blog and find your way to blogging stardom, consider the following nugget of ancient Greek wisdom: “The meaning of life is in attaining the highest form of knowledge.” Incidentally, this is also all you need to […] Read the full story

12 Common Blogging Mistakes to Avoid for Successful Growth

Updated: November 4th, 2025 2 Comments Category: Blogging

Starting a blog is exciting, but making it successful takes more than just writing and hitting publish. Many bloggers unknowingly make mistakes that hold them back from real growth. If you’re writing without a clear strategy, struggling to gain readers, or not seeing results, chances are you’re making common blogging mistakes that can be easily […] Read the full story

How To Use WordPress Media Library and Add Images

Updated: November 4th, 2025 2 Comments Category: Blogging

When your blog is well written enough to engage your audience, why do you need to add media files to your WordPress articles? Media files are something you shouldn’t miss including on your site. Pairing information with pictures and videos helps your audience to understand written words quickly and without any ambiguity or confusion. Consider […] Read the full story

Why Do People Blog? – 15 Benefits of Blogging

Updated: November 4th, 2025 4 Comments Category: Blogging

When blogs and blogging began, the original purpose was for individuals to share their personal lives online, similar to an online journal. Over the last decade, blogging has evolved from having more personal to more professional goals. Instead of individuals solely blogging for their friends and family, blogging began to encompass professionals blogging for the […] Read the full story

50+ Best Examples of Popular Blogs in 2024

Updated: November 4th, 2025 41 Comments Category: Blogging

We’ve created this article with a simple mission, to share with new bloggers some examples of successful and popular blogs on the web.  Hopefully, these niche blog examples will motivate you to start your own blog.   However, the quality of the content itself is sometimes not enough, meaning that most popular blogs also pay attention […] Read the full story

How to Use Categories in WordPress

Updated: November 4th, 2025 Be the first to comment Category: Blogging

WordPress categories are a way of grouping posts on your WordPress blog. They are just one of the taxonomies that WordPress uses to organize content on the website. Since we are talking about taxonomies, this is the perfect time to get acquainted with the term, before you get scared of it. Basically, that’s all you […] Read the full story

8 Types of Blogs and Bloggers. What Type is Yours?

Updated: November 4th, 2025 4 Comments Category: Blogging

In the blogging world, there are different kinds of blogs and bloggers who blog to reach specific goals. If you decided to start a blog, but you’re not sure what your blog is going to tackle, then identifying the type of blogger you want to become can help. In this post, we’re going to look […] Read the full story

20 Reasons Why You Should Start a Blog (for Business and Pleasure)

Updated: November 4th, 2025 Be the first to comment Category: Blogging

What is a blog and why start one? There are many reasons why you should have your blog. This article will look at twenty ways why everyone should have his or her blog. For some of us, there is nothing more satisfying than having the job of a dream. Whether it’s engineering, art, biology, or […] Read the full story

How to Update WordPress Website, Themes, and Plugins

Updated: November 4th, 2025 Be the first to comment Category: Blogging

Once every few weeks, when you log into your WordPress blog and go to the dashboard, you will notice that there are updates available for your site. Although it is easy to just click the button to upgrade your WordPress core, themes, and plugins to a newer version, you should take an extra step and […] Read the full story

The WordPress Dashboard: Admin Area and Panel

Updated: November 4th, 2025 3 Comments Category: Blogging

The WordPress Dashboard displays a quick overview of the blog/website when a user logs in to the admin area. The Dashboard allows you to post articles, add plugins to enhance the website’s functionality, add categories, customize themes, and much more. Often known as WP Admin, the Dashboard is the control center of your entire blog/website. […] Read the full story

How to Find and Login to WordPress Admin URL

Updated: November 4th, 2025 3 Comments Category: Blogging

If you are creating a blog or making a website, after installing WordPress, you’ll need to log into your WordPress admin dashboard. Without access to the admin page, you won’t be able to customize your blog or site. Admin is the place where “everything happens”, where you write posts and manage the website. In order […] Read the full story

What is WordPress Content Management System (CMS)?

Updated: November 4th, 2025 2 Comments Category: Blogging

Even if you’ve never worked with WordPress, there’s a good chance you’ve heard about this content management system (CMS). Since its first baby steps in 2003, WordPress has rapidly gained popularity, and it became one of the best and most used software solutions when it comes to building and managing a website or blog. Today, […] Read the full story

An Overview of the WordPress Settings Section

Updated: November 4th, 2025 Be the first to comment Category: Blogging

While working with WordPress, everyone’s first instinct is to start with the creation phase immediately. However, before you start creating, you should take a look at your WordPress website’s basic settings. Those settings can help you to control your website’s overall functionality. Developing your knowledge of WordPress settings ensures that you will maximize your use […] Read the full story

How to Automatically Update WordPress Plugins

Updated: November 4th, 2025 Be the first to comment Category: Blogging

Although you can make a blog without a single plugin on the list, the chances are that you will have to install at least a few of them. No matter how great of an expert are you, some features would just take too much of your precious time to develop from scratch. Since there are […] Read the full story

How to Backup Your WordPress Website

Updated: November 4th, 2025 1 Comment Category: Blogging

Backup is one of those computer-related terms that everyone likes to use even if they don’t completely understand it. If you are still not familiar with the term, it is a process of copying or archiving data so that you can quickly restore it if something terrible happens to the original files. When talking about WordPress, […] Read the full story

How to Add Clickable Phone Numbers in WordPress

Updated: November 4th, 2025 2 Comments Category: Blogging

Smartphones are ruling the world. We don’t have to repeat how smartphones changed the world and what are they capable of. We also know that in modern society, every website that you create has to be responsive. But what happens with phone numbers that you write in your WordPress posts and pages? Most of the […] Read the full story

The Ultimate cPanel Guide for WordPress Beginners

Updated: November 4th, 2025 4 Comments Category: Blogging

Every blog or website, including a WordPress one, needs a hosting provider. Once you decide whom you are going to trust, you will start a blog and install WordPress. As you probably already know, managing a site takes both time and some skill. WordPress can help you a lot with your blog, but when it […] Read the full story

How to Quickly Find and Edit Code From Themes and Plugins

Updated: November 4th, 2025 3 Comments Category: Blogging

Working with WordPress can be easy. When compared to many other content management systems, it really is easy. Even if you have nothing to do with the code or design, you can still create your WordPress blog, and you can start writing and publishing content in a matter of minutes. If you need to extend […] Read the full story