265 results for «WordPress» (page 26 of 27)
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A website people can install like an app: PWA basics
The short answer: a PWA is a normal website with two things added: a small file that describes it (the manifest) and, if you want it to work offline, a…
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Importing a theme’s demo content without wrecking your site
The short answer: many themes come with an “Import demo” button that copies the example’s pages, images and menus into your site. It is the quickest way to get a…
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Error 500 Internal Server Error: finding the cause, step by step
The short answer: error 500 means “something went wrong on the server and I cannot say what”. The cause is almost always in the error log, and almost always one…
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Colours, fonts and a logo for a small business website: simple rules that avoid a messy look
The short answer: a site that looks careful does not need a designer: it needs few choices, repeated consistently. Two main colours and one accent, two typefaces at most, plenty…
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SQL injection and XSS in plain words: what to ask your developer
The short answer: SQL injection and XSS are two of the oldest attacks on websites, and they still work because they come from the same oversight: trusting what the visitor…
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A domain or subdomain opens the wrong site: the document root and how to check it
The short answer: each domain and subdomain on a hosting account points to a folder (the “document root”) and shows what is in that folder. If one shows another’s site,…
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Accents turning into strange symbols on your site: UTF-8 from file to database
The short answer: “ação” shows as “ação”, or as “a��o”, or as “a?o”. It is always the same problem: the text was written in one alphabet (encoding) and read in…
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Error 404 on a page that should exist: the causes, in order
The short answer: error 404 means “the server is working but cannot find what was asked for”. For a page you know exists, the causes are almost always a file…
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Query strings explained: what comes after the question mark, and what it changes
The short answer: everything after the ? in an address is the query string: name=value pairs separated by &, up to the end of the address or a “#”. The…
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A support request that gets a fast answer: what to include, by type of problem
The short answer: the fastest answer is the one that does not need a question back. A request with the site address, what you expected, what happened and when usually…





