254 results for «WordPress» (page 23 of 26)
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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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ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS: when the site redirects in a circle
The short answer: the browser says “the page redirected you too many times” when two rules contradict each other and send you back and forth, endlessly. It is almost always…
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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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Which hosting plan for a hotel, lodge or tour operator: photos, bookings and several languages
The short answer: a tourism site lives on big photographs and several languages, and most visits come from abroad, from phones and from slow connections. To start, an entry shared…
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How a website works: from the address you type to the page on your screen
The short answer: when you type an address, the browser asks DNS which server belongs to that name, connects to that server, and the server sends back the page. In…
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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,…
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Which hosting plan for a news site or magazine: traffic peaks, ads and a growing archive
The short answer: a news site has three weights: the peaks when a story spreads, the ads, which load third-party scripts, and the archive, which only grows. At the start,…
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A 30-minute monthly routine to keep your website healthy
The short answer: a site does not break all at once: it accumulates small faults (a plugin not updated, a form that stopped arriving, a backup that was never tested).…
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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…





