271 results for «WordPress» (page 14 of 28)
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Putting WhatsApp on your site: the link, the button and the ready-written message
In Mozambique, WhatsApp is where business conversations happen. A contact form gives you a message somebody reads tomorrow; a WhatsApp button gives you a conversation that starts now. It is…
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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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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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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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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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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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admin-ajax eating your resources: how to find out and cut it down
admin-ajax.php is the door through which plugins talk to the server in the background, without reloading the page. It serves the dashboard and it serves the public side of the…
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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…





