Building what's missing — updates, projects and guides.https://blaminhor.com/enhttps://blaminhor.com/wordpress/the-events-calendar-pro-alternative/https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/the-events-calendar-pro-alternative/The Events Calendar Pro vanished into Liquid Web's consolidation and entry pricing now starts at $259/year. The Calendar module in Blaminhor Essentials does the job — for free.Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTWordPressWordPressBlaminhor EssentialscalendareventsbookingThe Events CalendarModern Events CalendarEventONAmeliapluginshttps://blaminhor.com/wordpress/wordpress-appointment-booking-free/https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/wordpress-appointment-booking-free/Amelia, Bookly and Calendly charge $49 to $400 a year for appointment booking. The Calendar module in Blaminhor Essentials does it for free, on your own site.Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTWordPressWordPressBlaminhor EssentialsappointmentsbookingCalendlyAmeliaBooklypluginshttps://blaminhor.com/wordpress/manage-wordpress-user-roles/https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/manage-wordpress-user-roles/WordPress's five fixed roles rarely match a real team. Create custom roles, edit capabilities with plain-English labels, override per user, and undo any change from an automatic snapshot.Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTProjectsWordPressuser rolescapabilitiespermissionsBlaminhor Essentialshttps://blaminhor.com/wordpress/fix-wordpress-email-smtp/https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/fix-wordpress-email-smtp/WordPress emails vanish because PHP mail() isn't authenticated. Route them through a real SMTP server—with fallback relays, a delivery log and failure alerts—so they actually arrive.Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTProjectsWordPressSMTPemail deliverabilityBlaminhor EssentialsBrevohttps://blaminhor.com/wordpress/301-redirects-wordpress/https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/301-redirects-wordpress/A 301 redirect tells Google a page moved permanently and passes its SEO value to the new URL. Here's how to set them up in WordPress without editing code.Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTProjectsWordPress301 redirectsSEOBlaminhor Essentials404https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/reorder-posts-wordpress-drag-drop/https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/reorder-posts-wordpress-drag-drop/WordPress sorts posts by date and buries page order behind a numeric field. Drag rows into the order you want—posts, pages, custom types and taxonomies—and have the front end follow.Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTProjectsWordPressmenu ordercustom post typesBlaminhor Essentialssortinghttps://blaminhor.com/wordpress/stop-wordpress-automatic-emails/https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/stop-wordpress-automatic-emails/WordPress emails you every plugin update, registration and password change. Silence the noise per-notification—while keeping the alerts that matter, like a failed update or a crash.Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTProjectsWordPressemailsnotificationsBlaminhor Essentialsadminhttps://blaminhor.com/wordpress/wordpress-maintenance-mode/https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/wordpress-maintenance-mode/A maintenance page is more than a message—it's the right HTTP status so you don't wreck your SEO, plus access control so you can keep working. Here's how to do it properly.Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTProjectsWordPressmaintenance modecoming soonSEOBlaminhor Essentialshttps://blaminhor.com/wordpress/manage-wordpress-image-sizes/https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/manage-wordpress-image-sizes/WordPress makes 7–12 resized copies of every image you upload—most of which you never use. Disable the dead sizes, delete the orphaned files, and reclaim gigabytes.Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTProjectsWordPressimagesperformancedisk spaceBlaminhor Essentialshttps://blaminhor.com/wordpress/seo-geo-wordpress-optimize-search-engines-ai/https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/seo-geo-wordpress-optimize-search-engines-ai/Traditional SEO gets you ranked; GEO gets you cited by AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity. Here's how to do both on WordPress—meta, schema, E-E-A-T—without a bloated plugin.Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTProjectsWordPressSEOGEOschemaBlaminhor Essentialshttps://blaminhor.com/wordpress/force-https-wordpress/https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/force-https-wordpress/Having an SSL certificate isn't the same as using HTTPS everywhere. Redirect all traffic, secure admin, fix mixed content and enable HSTS—without locking yourself out.Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTProjectsWordPressHTTPSSSLHSTSBlaminhor Essentialshttps://blaminhor.com/wordpress/wordpress-favicon-generator/https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/wordpress-favicon-generator/A modern favicon isn't one 16×16 file—it's a dozen formats for tabs, iOS, Android and Windows. Generate them all, plus the manifest files, from a single square image.Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTProjectsWordPressfaviconbrandingPWABlaminhor Essentialshttps://blaminhor.com/wordpress/wordpress-fatal-error-recovery/https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/wordpress-fatal-error-recovery/A bad plugin update can white-screen your whole site—admin included. Set up a secret recovery URL that works even when WordPress won't load, so you're never locked out or stuck in FTP.Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTProjectsWordPressfatal errorrecoverysecurityBlaminhor Essentialshttps://blaminhor.com/misc/how-to-encrypt-confidential-files-cryptomator-every-device-cloud/https://blaminhor.com/misc/how-to-encrypt-confidential-files-cryptomator-every-device-cloud/Cryptomator adds free, open-source zero-knowledge encryption on top of Google Drive, Dropbox or iCloud—so your provider stores your files but literally cannot read them. Here's how.Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTMiscellaneouscryptomatorencryptionsecuritycloudprivacyzero-knowledgeopen-sourceAES-256https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/duplicate-posts-pages-wordpress/https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/duplicate-posts-pages-wordpress/Clone any post, page or taxonomy term in WordPress with every custom field, taxonomy and page-builder layout intact—one click, in bulk, as a safe draft.Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTProjectsWordPressduplicate contentpage buildersBlaminhor EssentialsElementorhttps://blaminhor.com/wordpress/change-wordpress-domain/https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/change-wordpress-domain/Changing a WordPress domain means rewriting thousands of database rows—including serialized data a raw find-and-replace corrupts. Here's the safe way, with preview and one-click undo.Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTProjectsWordPressdomain migrationserialized dataBlaminhor Essentialsbackuphttps://blaminhor.com/wordpress/clean-wordpress-database/https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/clean-wordpress-database/Post revisions, expired transients, orphaned meta and dead cron events quietly bloat your WordPress database. Here's how to clean each one safely—and schedule it to stay lean.Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTProjectsWordPressdatabaseperformanceBlaminhor Essentialsoptimizationhttps://blaminhor.com/wordpress/disable-gutenberg-classic-editor/https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/disable-gutenberg-classic-editor/Bring back the classic WordPress editor—globally, per post type, per role, or per single post—plus classic widgets and block-CSS cleanup, without a separate plugin.Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTProjectsWordPressGutenbergClassic EditorBlaminhor Essentialsblock editorhttps://blaminhor.com/wordpress/how-to-completely-disable-comments-on-your-wordpress-site/https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/how-to-completely-disable-comments-on-your-wordpress-site/Unchecking 'Allow comments' barely does anything. Here's how to fully remove WordPress comments—front end, admin, existing posts, XML-RPC and REST—in one place.Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTProjectsWordPresscommentsspamsecurityBlaminhor Essentialshttps://blaminhor.com/wordpress/find-fix-broken-links-wordpress/https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/find-fix-broken-links-wordpress/Broken links quietly cost you visitors and rankings. Here's how to scan a WordPress site—one post at a time so it never overloads your server—and fix, recheck or dismiss each dead link.Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTProjectsWordPressbroken linksSEOBlaminhor Essentialsmaintenancehttps://blaminhor.com/wordpress/wordpress-backup-tutorial/https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/wordpress-backup-tutorial/A backup you can't restore isn't a backup. Here's how to back up WordPress properly—separate components, automatic schedules, pre-update snapshots, off-site copies and one-click restore.Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTProjectsWordPressbackuprestoredisaster recoveryBlaminhor Essentialshttps://blaminhor.com/wordpress/how-to-hide-your-wordpress-login-page-from-bots-and-brute-force-attacks/https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/how-to-hide-your-wordpress-login-page-from-bots-and-brute-force-attacks/Every WordPress site's login sits at the same URL that every bot attacks: wp-login.php. Move it to a secret slug and send unauthorized visitors to a 404—removing the target entirely.Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTProjectsWordPresssecuritybrute forceloginBlaminhor Essentialshttps://blaminhor.com/wordpress/blaminhor-essentials-modular-free-plugin-for-wordpress/https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/blaminhor-essentials-modular-free-plugin-for-wordpress/Blaminhor Essentials is a free, open-source WordPress plugin that bundles 20+ tools—SMTP, backups, SEO, redirects, security—into one modular package.Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTProjectsWordPressBlaminhor EssentialspluginsSMTPbackupSEOsecurityhttps://blaminhor.com/misc/mojiwall-learn-japanese-characters-moji-through-wallpapers/https://blaminhor.com/misc/mojiwall-learn-japanese-characters-moji-through-wallpapers/MojiWall is a free, ad-free tool that turns your phone and desktop wallpaper into passive Japanese practice—generate kana and kanji images across all JLPT levels.Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTProjectsMojiWallJapanesekanjiJLPTlanguage learninghttps://blaminhor.com/wordpress/what-is-seo/https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/what-is-seo/Everything you need to understand SEO, plus the tips and tools I actually use to boost the ranking of a WordPress site on Google.Mon, 26 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMTEncyclopediahttps://blaminhor.com/wordpress/what-is-404-error-page/https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/what-is-404-error-page/A plain-English definition and the story behind "404": learn how to handle 404 errors on WordPress and turn a dead end into a better user experience.Thu, 22 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMTEncyclopediahttps://blaminhor.com/wordpress/change-wordpress-language-date-time/https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/change-wordpress-language-date-time/WordPress isn't always installed in the language you want — a few simple settings switch its language and get your date, time and timezone right.Wed, 21 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMTWordPresshttps://blaminhor.com/wordpress/wordpress-dashboard-explained/https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/wordpress-dashboard-explained/Getting to know your WordPress dashboard is the very first step to finding your way around and feeling at home in the admin area.Tue, 20 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMTWordPresshttps://blaminhor.com/wordpress/faaaster-hosting-interface/https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/faaaster-hosting-interface/Your first steps on Faaaster: get to know its dashboard and the different sections the host puts at your fingertips.Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMTInternethttps://blaminhor.com/wordpress/what-is-a-web-browser/https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/what-is-a-web-browser/Let's rediscover the tool that let the whole planet connect to the World Wide Web through the Internet: the humble web browser.Fri, 16 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMTWordPresshttps://blaminhor.com/wordpress/what-is-open-source/https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/what-is-open-source/Discover what open source really means: a plain-English definition, where it came from, and the iconic projects it gave us, WordPress included.Thu, 15 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMTWordPresshttps://blaminhor.com/wordpress/sign-up-for-faaaster-web-hosting/https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/sign-up-for-faaaster-web-hosting/The very first step in building your WordPress site: signing up with a host you can trust. Here's every step, walked through in detail!Tue, 13 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMTInternethttps://blaminhor.com/wordpress/what-is-transactional-email/https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/what-is-transactional-email/Understand what a transactional email really is, and how it differs from a non-transactional (marketing) email, in plain, beginner-friendly language.Sat, 10 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMTWordPresshttps://blaminhor.com/wordpress/what-is-web-hosting/https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/what-is-web-hosting/What is a web host? It's actually very simple. Here's what web hosting really is and why every website needs it to go live.Sat, 10 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMTEncyclopediahttps://blaminhor.com/wordpress/hide-wordpress-site-from-google/https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/hide-wordpress-site-from-google/While your WordPress site is still under construction, you really don't want Google to see it. Here's why it matters, and exactly how to hide it.Sat, 27 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTWordPresshttps://blaminhor.com/wordpress/how-to-edit-dns-zone-domain/https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/how-to-edit-dns-zone-domain/Find your host or registrar in the list below and jump straight to their official guide for editing your DNS zone without the guesswork.Fri, 26 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTInternetDNSDomain NamesWeb Hostinghttps://blaminhor.com/wordpress/wordpress-com-vs-wordpress-org/https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/wordpress-com-vs-wordpress-org/When you set out to build a site with WordPress, you quickly bump into the .com and the .org. What actually sets them apart?Fri, 26 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTWordPresshttps://blaminhor.com/wordpress/wordpress-emails-going-to-spam-brevo-smtp/https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/wordpress-emails-going-to-spam-brevo-smtp/The emails your WordPress site sends often land in the recipient's spam folder. The fix: Brevo's free SMTP relay.Fri, 26 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTWordPresshttps://blaminhor.com/wordpress/what-is-a-url/https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/what-is-a-url/Everything you need to know about the URL: its definition, its structure and components, and the difference between a relative and an absolute URL.Thu, 25 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTEncyclopediahttps://blaminhor.com/wordpress/run-php-only-for-administrators-wordpress/https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/run-php-only-for-administrators-wordpress/Use this WordPress PHP function so your code stays visible to you alone, the site administrator.Thu, 25 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTWordPresshttps://blaminhor.com/wordpress/how-to-log-in-to-wordpress/https://blaminhor.com/wordpress/how-to-log-in-to-wordpress/Wondering how to log in to your WordPress site or where the admin URL actually is? It's simpler than you think.Fri, 19 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTWordPress