254 results for «WordPress» (page 17 of 26)
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Posting to social networks automatically: what automation can and cannot do
You can make every new article on your site produce a social post, but the best way to do it is to automate the draft and not the publishing. The…
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Slow queries: how to find them and the fixes that work most often
A site that is slow because of the database almost always has one or two queries doing all the work, and the most frequent fix is a missing index. The…
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High TTFB: how to find where the server response time goes
TTFB (time to first byte) is the time from the request to the arrival of the first byte of the reply. If it is high, the page is slow to…
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Sending e-mail from PHP: mail() or SMTP
Use SMTP with a real mailbox on your domain. The mail() function is fine for a quick test, but it returns “sent” only because the local mail program accepted the…
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LiteSpeed or Apache: what the web server changes for your site, and what it does not
The web server is the program that receives the browser’s request and hands back the page. Apache and LiteSpeed do the same job and read the same rules (the .htaccess…
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Preparing for a traffic spike: a campaign, a launch or a live event
A traffic spike is not solved on the day: it is solved in the days before. What brings a site down in a campaign is not the total number of…
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Embeddings and semantic search: finding things by meaning in your own content
An embedding is a list of numbers that represents the meaning of a text. Two texts that say similar things get similar lists, even if they share no words. That…
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Coupons in WooCommerce
A coupon is a code the customer types in the cart to get a discount. WooCommerce ships with it, but it is switched off until you enable it, and nearly…
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Giving a developer access to your site without handing over your password
You do not need to give the password of your account to whoever builds your site. There are smaller accesses that are enough for the job, that you can switch…
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Which hosting plan for a church or an association: a simple site, events and videos
A church, an association or an NGO usually needs a site that is simple and always up: who we are, opening times, contacts, news and events. That fits one of…





