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A child theme or editing the theme directly: why updates wipe your changes

Short answer: if you edit a theme’s files directly and the theme is later updated, the update replaces the files and your changes disappear. A child theme is a small…

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Nginx or Apache on a VPS: which web server to choose

For an ordinary site either one will do, and the deciding factor is what your application expects and what you already know how to run. Apache is the natural choice…

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How to install Apache on a VPS and set up a virtual host

On Ubuntu or Debian you install Apache with sudo apt install apache2, write a site file in /etc/apache2/sites-available/ holding a VirtualHost that points at your folder, enable it with sudo…

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A website form that is safe and spam-free: honeypot, captcha and validation

The short answer: a form is a door that anyone, and any robot, can try. To keep it spam-free, add a trap field (a honeypot) and, if needed, a captcha.…

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llms.txt: what it is, and whether it does anything for your site

The short answer: llms.txt is a proposed text file, at the root of the site, that summarises what the site has and points to its most useful pages, written to…

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www or no www: which address to choose for your site

Short answer: either will do, and the choice is mostly a matter of taste. What is not a matter of taste is picking just one, making the other redirect to…

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Entry processes: why a site with few visitors can still hit the limit

Entry processes measure how many things are entering your account at the same time: each request to a PHP page, each scheduled task, each SSH session. They do not measure…

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Website statistics without Google: Matomo on your hosting, or Plausible on a VPS

The short answer: to know how many people visit your site you do not have to hand the data to Google. Matomo does the same job and runs on your…

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The slash at the end, capital letters and index.html: one page at several addresses

The short answer: to a browser and to Google, /contact, /contact/, /Contact and /contact/index.html are four different addresses. On the server they may open the same page, give a 404…

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Videos on your website: upload them or embed from a video service

The short answer: for most sites, embed the video from a proper video service (such as YouTube or Vimeo) instead of storing it on the hosting. A video is heavy,…