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How to Fix Destination Folder Already Exists Error in WordPress

How to Fix Destination Folder Already Exists Error in WordPress

One of my friends asked me how to fix the “Installation Failed, Destination Folder already exists error” in WordPress.

Are you also facing this type of error in your WordPress website?

Why does WordPress show Destination Folder Already Exists Error?

WordPress popup this error when you install a Theme or Plugin in WordPress and that folder already exists on your Website.

This error arises because

  1. You deleted the theme/plugin from your WordPress but the theme was not deleted entirely/correctly, and the folder remains in your backend.
  2. You tried to install the theme or plugin before, but it didn’t install correctly.

How to Solve the error Destination Folder already exists?

To solve this error, First login to Your Hosting Account

Hosting >> File Manager >> public_html >>wp_content >> plugins/themes

How to Fix Destination Folder Already exists error
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Then find the folder of the plugin or theme that you were installing while getting the “Destination Folder already exists” error, and delete that folder.

Now, go to WordPress Dashboard and install the theme or plugin. Now you can successfully install the theme/plugin.

In my case, my friend was getting this error while installing the wpforms plugin, and when I suggested him this process. He said that he was installed wpforms before. But due to some issues, the plugin has been deleted, and he was installing it again.

So, he has done all the steps I suggested here, and in the end, he successfully installed the wpforms plugin.

We hope this article helped you to solve the destination folder already exists error in WordPress. If so, share it with your Friends and subscribe to our blog.

Easiest Way to Understand What is a Backlink?

What is a Backlink?

Do you want to know What is a Backlink? Many beginners want to know What a Backlink is actually?

It is simple, a Backlink is a link from one website to another website.

For example, Bajrai Online Solutions is a Business directory which lists Hyderabad Businesses.

Here, in the above example, the link to Bajrai Online Solutions serves as a Backlink to that website.

What is a Backlink?

Importance of Backlinks

Backlinks are very important for websites. For ranking a website on Search Engines like Google, Backlinks are one of the important factors. The website which has more Backlinks, search engine rank it high because it understands that many websites are linking to this website.

Conclusion: Backlinks are one of the important aspects of SEO, and SEO plays important role in Digital Marketing.

How to Delete a Category in WordPress
How to Delete a Category in WordPress

How to Delete a Category in WordPress?

Do you want to delete a category in WordPress? Whatever reason it may be, but you want to delete a category from your WordPress Website. Then how to delete it?

We assume you followed our previous post on How to add a category in WordPress? If you followed that post then it is dead easy to delete a category from WordPress.

If not, then you can read this post to delete a category from WordPress.

In our previous post, you learned about What Category is in WordPress, what are its uses, and how to add a category to a WordPress website? Now we will discuss how to delete a category?

How to Delete a Category from WordPress?

To delete a category in WordPress, you have to go to Your WordPress Admin Dashboard, then as previously, go to Posts in it and select categories.

Now, you will see Add New Category Heading on your left-hand side and Your Categories on the right-hand side.

To delete a category from your categories, select the category you want to delete or just hover over it. You will see Edit, Quick Edit, Delete and View. Click on Delete to Delete the Category.

Then a Pop up will show which says: “You are about to permanently delete these items from your site. This action cannot be undone. Cancel to stop, OK to delete

If you want to delete it Click OK.

Hurray! You have successfully deleted a Category from your WordPress Blog.

How to Delete Uncategorized Category from WordPress?

You might want to delete that Uncategorized Category and you were unable to delete the uncategorized category. This is because by default uncategorized category is your Default Category.

You cannot Delete  Default Category

To delete the uncategorized Category, first, you have to change the default category.

How to Change the Default Category in WordPress?

To Change the Default Category, You have to go to WordPress Writing settings, there you can change Default Parent Category, as we explained in WordPress Basic settings.

Now, we assume that you have changed the Default Parent Category.

Now come back to categories and here you can delete Uncategorized Category.

Yay! You have successfully deleted Uncategorized the default category.

How to Delete Multiple Categories in WordPress?

Suppose you want to delete categories in bulk i.e., you want to delete multiple categories in a go, then just you have to select categories you want to delete.

How to Delete a Category in WordPress

And click on the drop-down as shown in the screenshot -which displays Bulk Actions. When you click bulk actions, you will see Delete. Select Delete and Click Apply.

Then a Pop up will show which says: “You are about to permanently delete these items from your site. This action cannot be undone. Cancel to stop, OK to delete

If you want to delete it Click OK.

Hurray! You have successfully learned to delete multiple Categories in WordPress.

Do Deleting a Category will Delete All the Posts assigned to that Category?

Now one question arises in our mind that, when we delete a particular category, then do our posts that are assigned to that category will also be deleted?

No, it will not happen. Your posts assigned to deleted category won’t be deleted from your website.

What Happened to Deleted Category posts?

Now the question is then what happened to the posts of deleted category? The answer is simple, those posts will be assigned to your Default Category.

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how to add logo in WordPress
How to add logo in WordPress Website
how to add logo in WordPress

How to add logo in WordPress?

Most beginners have this question How to add logo in WordPress website. In our previous post, we discussed how to install a theme in WordPress, there we have discussed customizing the theme. You will get this answer there also. Here first we discuss what the logo is?

What is Logo?

The logo is the combination of text and image which describe a business. A good logo shows about the company (business) and its brand values.

What is the importance of a Logo?

A logo is very important because by logo only customers recognize your brand. Just Look around You will recognize Facebook, Twitter, Instagram by just seeing their logo. When you see Instagram Logo, instantly your mind says that it is Instagram. So, the logo is very important in branding. You should have a good logo for your business, it should describe your brand.

How to add logo in WordPress?

Now we will come to our question. To add a logo to your WordPress website, you need to go to customize your Theme. You can do it in two ways.

Firstly, Log in to Your WordPress Dashboard, and on the right-hand side hover over Appearance and click on Customize.

Secondly, Just Click on customize on the top of your website page (this option will be available if you are log in to your WordPress website)

Now, different themes have different headings for going to add the logo in WordPress. But you need to go to Site Title in Your Theme customization. In Twenty Eleven theme you directly have Site Title Option, and in Avril Theme You have Header and in the Header section, You have Site Title.

Here we take examples of two themes.

Firstly Avril theme, Avril Theme is developed by Nayra Themes. It’s a good theme to have and in the Free version also the Avril Theme gives customer support rapidly.

In the Avril theme, when you click on customize, you have to click on Header on the left-hand side and in the Header, you will have the Site title. After clicking Site Title, You will see the Logo there. If you have the new website the logo place will be empty. If your website already has a logo then you will get two options as shown change or remove the logo. From here you can add the logo to the WordPress website.

Secondly, The Twenty Eleven theme. In the Twenty Eleven theme, you will have the Site Title option when you click on the customize option. From here you can add logo to your WordPress website.

Hurray! You have successfully added a logo to Your WordPress Website.

How to Change Logo in WordPress website?

We think, now after reading the above matter you no need to have this question. To change the logo in WordPress you just need to go to Site Title in Customize Theme option as discussed above. There you can change the logo on the WordPress website.

How to Remove logo from the WordPress website?

If you want to remove the logo from the WordPress website, just you have to go to customize option as discussed in detail above. There you get the Remove logo option in the Site Title which we discussed already.

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