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A test site before touching what is live

Half the broken sites we see broke the same way: somebody updated, installed or changed something on the live site, mid-afternoon, and had no site for two hours. The solution…

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Error establishing a database connection: the causes, in order

The page shows one white line saying «Error establishing a database connection» and nothing else. It is not a WordPress fault: it is WordPress telling you it asked the database…

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Swapping WP-Cron for a real server cron job

WordPress has a scheduler of its own, WP-Cron, which handles scheduled posts, update checks, emptying the bin and the e-mails your plugins send. The name misleads: it is not a…

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Where each application keeps its database connection details

Every website that stores anything has, somewhere in its files, four lines holding the database name, the user, the password and the host. It is the only place those things…

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A Sitejet site and another website on the same plan

A plan can hold more than one site, up to the plan's limit. What it cannot do is hold two sites in the same folder. The rule: one folder per…

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WooCommerce: what it is, and what you need before you start

WooCommerce is a free plugin that turns a WordPress site into a shop: catalogue, cart, checkout, orders, customers and shipping. It is not a separate service and not a place…

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Cleaning and optimising the database in phpMyAdmin

A site with a few years behind it carries a database full of things nobody reads: a revision of every single save, spam comments from 2021, options from plugins deleted…

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Changing your PHP version without breaking the site

Switching version is one click, and it is written out step by step in «How to change your PHP version». This article is the other half, the half that is…

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Installing and tuning a page cache

Without a cache, every visit makes the server build the page again: query the database, run the PHP, assemble the HTML. With a cache, the finished page is handed over…

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What Yoast SEO is, and what it actually does

Yoast SEO is a WordPress plugin that gathers, into a single panel, the technical settings that help search engines understand a site: titles, descriptions, sitemap, structured data and indexing rules.…