Question 1

How long does it take to build a WordPress website?

Accepted Answer

A standard business website usually takes 2–4 weeks from approved design to launch; online stores take longer depending on products and integrations. Content and feedback speed are the biggest factors.

Question 2

Do you provide maintenance after launch?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Monthly maintenance covers core, theme and plugin updates, backups, security monitoring and small content changes. Ask sales for the maintenance plans.

Question 3

Why can I not reach wp-admin?

Accepted Answer

Check the causes in order of frequency: a wrong URL or moved login path, a plugin or theme fatal error, a redirect loop, a security plugin blocking your IP, a PHP problem, and last a compromise.

Question 4

How do I disable a plugin when I am locked out of WordPress?

Accepted Answer

Rename the plugin's folder in File Manager: WordPress cannot find the plugin file and deactivates it by itself, which gets you back into wp-admin. Read the error log first, rename the folder back afterwards, and never delete it.

Question 5

Which plugin should I use to migrate WordPress?

Accepted Answer

Choose by the size of the site and by what the destination allows, not by reputation. Take a full backup first, because a migration plugin is a copying tool and not a backup.

Question 6

How do I fix the white screen of death in WordPress?

Accepted Answer

A blank white page means PHP stopped and hid the error. Rename the plugins folder in File Manager to disable everything at once, switch to a default theme, raise the PHP memory limit, then turn on WP_DEBUG or read the error log to find the exact line that failed.

Question 7

How do I recover a lost WordPress admin password?

Accepted Answer

Try the Lost your password link first. If the reset email never arrives, change the password directly in phpMyAdmin using the MD5 function, or create a temporary admin user with a snippet in functions.php. Remove the snippet the moment you are back in.

Question 8

Why are my scheduled posts or tasks not running?

Accepted Answer

WordPress has no clock of its own: WP-Cron only runs when a page is loaded. A missed schedule usually means nobody visited at that moment, the site could not call itself, or a cache served the page without running PHP.

Question 9

Elementor or the block editor: which should I use?

Accepted Answer

Choose by who will maintain the pages after launch and by how much design freedom you need without code. Elementor buys visual freedom at the cost of weight and lock-in; the block editor stays lighter and keeps improving.

Question 10

How do I optimise images in WordPress?

Accepted Answer

Resize the file before you upload it, compress it in a modern format, and let WordPress serve the right size to each screen. A plugin helps, but it cannot rescue a photo that is ten times wider than the slot it sits in.

Question 11

How do I choose and install a WordPress theme?

Accepted Answer

Shortlist themes that were updated in the last few months, have real support and RTL files if your site is Arabic, then install from Appearance > Themes > Add New and test on a staging copy first.

Question 12

Which WordPress plugins do I actually need?

Accepted Answer

Most sites need one plugin per job: security, SEO, caching, backup and forms. Add anything else only when a real need appears, and check the update date, active installs and support before installing.

Question 13

How do I make my WordPress site work in Arabic?

Accepted Answer

Set Site Language to Arabic in Settings > General, use a theme that ships RTL stylesheets, load a real Arabic web font, and decide early whether the site is Arabic only or bilingual.

Question 14

How do I add a contact form to WordPress?

Accepted Answer

Install one form plugin, keep the fields to the minimum you need, add spam protection, then send the form through SMTP with a mailbox on your own domain so the messages actually arrive.

Question 15

How do I update WordPress safely?

Accepted Answer

Take a full backup, test on staging if the site earns money, then update in order: core, then plugins one at a time, then the theme. Check the site after each step and restore the backup if anything breaks.

Question 16

How do I clean up a slow, bloated WordPress database?

Accepted Answer

Back up first, then delete old post revisions, expired transients, spam and trashed comments, and tables left behind by deleted plugins. Optimise the tables at the end and re-measure.

Question 17

How do I fix the WordPress memory exhausted error?

Accepted Answer

The error comes from PHP's memory limit. Raise it as a diagnostic to get back in, then find the plugin, theme or heavy job that needs unusual memory on a normal page and fix or replace it instead of leaving the limit high.

Question 18

How do I change my WordPress site URL safely?

Accepted Answer

Back up first, confirm the new address already serves the site, then change WordPress Address and Site Address together and replace stored URLs with a tool that understands serialised data. Saving an address that does not work yet locks you out of the dashboard.

Question 19

Which WordPress user role should I give my team?

Accepted Answer

Give each person the lowest role that lets them do their job: Contributor writes, Author publishes their own, Editor publishes and deletes anyone's, Administrator installs code. The owner must hold an Administrator account, not the agency alone.

Question 20

What is a child theme and why do I need one?

Accepted Answer

A child theme is a separate theme that inherits from your main theme and holds only your changes, so a theme update cannot overwrite them. You need one for template or functions edits, not for CSS-only tweaks or builder designs.

Question 21

How do I stop WordPress comment spam?

Accepted Answer

On most business sites the best answer is to turn comments off completely. If you keep them, hold every first-time commenter for approval, close comments on old posts, add an anti-spam service and a honeypot, and block by keyword last.

Question 22

How do I move WordPress out of a subfolder?

Accepted Answer

The safer way keeps the files in the subfolder and changes only the site address, so the site is served from the root. The alternative moves the files. Both need a backup, the two URL settings, an .htaccess rewrite, flushed permalinks and a safe search and replace.

Question 23

How do I roll back after an update broke my site?

Accepted Answer

Stop updating, find out what changed and when, then restore a backup from before the change if you have one. If not, disable the plugin or theme to get back in and reinstall the previous version, remembering that a plugin which migrated the database cannot be rolled back on its own.

Question 24

Why does my WordPress site keep getting hacked?

Accepted Answer

A site that is cleaned and then hacked again was never fully cleaned: the entry point is still open, a second backdoor was left behind, the old credentials still work, or the restored backup already contained the infection. Close the way in, rotate everything, then restore from before the first infection.

Question 25

How do I move from WordPress.com to my own hosting?

Accepted Answer

WordPress.com gives you no file access and no database, so this is an export and a rebuild rather than a copy. Export the content as XML, install WordPress on your hosting, import it, then rebuild the theme, plugins, widgets and settings the export does not carry.

Question 26

What is WordPress Multisite and do I need it?

Accepted Answer

Multisite is one WordPress installation serving many sites that share core, themes and plugins under a network administrator. Choose it only when the sites are one system under central control; separate installations on addon domains are simpler and safer for sites that merely belong to the same owner.

Question 27

How do I build a membership or course site on WordPress?

Accepted Answer

Decide first whether you are selling one off course access, a recurring membership or a community, because that picks the plugin and the payment model. Then size the hosting for logged in members, since page caching cannot help them.

Question 28

How do I keep WordPress updated and secure?

Accepted Answer

Update core, themes and plugins weekly, run Wordfence with 2FA, keep JetBackup plus an off-site UpdraftPlus backup, give users the lowest role they need and delete unused plugins.

Question 29

How do I speed up WordPress?

Accepted Answer

Install LiteSpeed Cache on our LiteSpeed servers, serve WebP images with lazy loading, remove unneeded plugins, run the newest PHP 8.x and add a CDN such as Cloudflare.

Question 30

How do I set up a staging site before going live?

Accepted Answer

Create a subdomain such as staging.example.com in cPanel, clone the live site into it with WordPress Toolkit or Softaculous, then protect it with a password and a noindex setting so nobody and no search engine sees it. Test updates and design changes there, and push them to live only once they work.

Question 31

How do I move my WordPress site to a new domain?

Accepted Answer

Back up first, point the new domain at the hosting, then run a database search and replace from the old URL to the new one, update the WordPress Address and Site Address, issue SSL, and add a 301 redirect from every old URL to the matching new one. Finish by telling Google through Search Console change of address.

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