254 results for «WordPress» (page 13 of 26)
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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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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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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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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.…
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Using Elementor
Elementor is a visual builder for WordPress: instead of writing code, you drag blocks onto the page and see the result as you drag them. It is the shortest route…
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What a CDN does for you: caching, compression, images and protection
People switch a CDN on expecting speed and get four different things at once. It is worth knowing which is which, because each one goes on and off separately, and…
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What a CMS is, and which one to choose for what you want to build
A CMS is a content management system: a program that lives on your hosting and gives you a panel, inside your browser, where you write pages, upload photographs and rearrange…
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Cron jobs: what they are for and how to create one
A scheduled task, or cron job, is an instruction the server runs at set times, whether you are there or not, whether the site has visitors or not. It is…
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The first Yoast SEO settings to get right
Yoast runs perfectly well badly configured, and that is what fools people: it looks done. These are the settings worth doing on day one, in order, and the ones you…
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A contact form that actually reaches your inbox
Building the form is the easy part: any plugin draws one in ten minutes. The hard part, and the one that loses business without anyone noticing, is the message arriving.…





