271 results for «WordPress» (page 18 of 28)
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Which hosting plan for a blog: start small and know when to grow
For a new blog, the entry plan is enough. A blog is one of the lightest things you can put online: text, a few images and a small database. What…
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Moving a database to another account or server
Export the database from the source, create an empty database and user at the destination, import the file and point the application at the new connection details. What always changes…
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Sending e-mail by SMTP or through an e-mail API: which suits your application
For a few messages (a contact form, the confirmations of a small shop), SMTP with a mailbox on your domain is enough. For large volumes, newsletters, or when you need…
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SQLite or MySQL: which one fits a small project
The short answer: SQLite fits a small application with few users writing at the same time and nobody from outside needing the database. MySQL (here, MariaDB) fits anything that is…
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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…
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Creating a database user and giving it the right privileges
A database without a user is no use to anyone, and a user with too many privileges is an open door. In cPanel you do it in MySQL Databases: create…
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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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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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Automatic daily backup or your own copy: which one saves you, and when
Short answer: they are not alternatives, they cover different problems. The automatic daily backup handles most everyday disasters (a deleted file, a plugin that broke the site). Your own copy,…
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Cron jobs worth setting up on a small website: seven ideas that save time
A cron job is for anything you would otherwise repeat by hand at the same time every day or week: taking a copy of the database, deleting temporary files, importing…





