271 results for «WordPress» (page 24 of 28)
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A child theme or editing the theme directly: why updates wipe your changes
Short answer: if you edit a theme’s files directly and the theme is later updated, the update replaces the files and your changes disappear. A child theme is a small…
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Nginx or Apache on a VPS: which web server to choose
For an ordinary site either one will do, and the deciding factor is what your application expects and what you already know how to run. Apache is the natural choice…
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llms.txt: what it is, and whether it does anything for your site
The short answer: llms.txt is a proposed text file, at the root of the site, that summarises what the site has and points to its most useful pages, written to…
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www or no www: which address to choose for your site
Short answer: either will do, and the choice is mostly a matter of taste. What is not a matter of taste is picking just one, making the other redirect to…
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A helpful 404 page: what it should say and how to check it works
The short answer: the 404 page is what a visitor sees when the address does not exist. A good one says so clearly, keeps the site’s menu and shows a…
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Website statistics without Google: Matomo on your hosting, or Plausible on a VPS
The short answer: to know how many people visit your site you do not have to hand the data to Google. Matomo does the same job and runs on your…
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Scanning your site for malware in cPanel: what Imunify finds and what to do with the result
The short answer: cPanel has a tool called Imunify360, in the Security group, that scans your account’s files for malicious code (malware). You can order a scan whenever you like…
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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,…





