271 results for «WordPress» (page 26 of 28)
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Error 500 Internal Server Error: finding the cause, step by step
The short answer: error 500 means “something went wrong on the server and I cannot say what”. The cause is almost always in the error log, and almost always one…
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Google Tag Manager and tracking pixels: adding them without slowing your site
The short answer: Google Tag Manager is a dashboard where you keep, in one place, the tracking codes of your site (statistics, ad pixels, chat buttons). You put a single…
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Which hosting plan for a student, thesis or hobby project
The short answer: to learn, experiment or hand in work with a website, you do not need anything big. The entry plan will do, and it lets you have an…
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A favicon for your site: where it goes and why it does not update
The short answer: the favicon is the small icon shown on the browser tab and in bookmarks. In WordPress you set it under Appearance, Customize, Site Identity, Site Icon. If…
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Ten mistakes first-time website owners make, and how to avoid each one
The short answer: nearly all the problems of a site’s first months repeat from person to person. Most are not technical: they are not having the account and domain in…
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SQL injection and XSS in plain words: what to ask your developer
The short answer: SQL injection and XSS are two of the oldest attacks on websites, and they still work because they come from the same oversight: trusting what the visitor…
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WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS): what it is and whether to switch
The short answer: HPOS is a newer way for WooCommerce to store orders, in tables of their own rather than mixed with the pages and posts of WordPress. In recent…
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CyberPanel, aaPanel and CloudPanel on a VPS: free panels and the questions to ask first
This article is for people with a VPS or a dedicated server with root access. On shared plans the panel is cPanel, and you neither choose nor install another one.…
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The parts of a web address: scheme, domain, port, path, query and fragment
The short answer: a web address (a URL) is read from left to right, in pieces, and each piece is handled by a different part of the chain. Take this…
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A support request that gets a fast answer: what to include, by type of problem
The short answer: the fastest answer is the one that does not need a question back. A request with the site address, what you expected, what happened and when usually…





