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An abandoned plugin or an old PHP version: how to spot the risks on your site

The short answer: most hacked sites were not caught by a clever attack, but by an old part with a known flaw: a plugin its author stopped updating, a forgotten…

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Ransomware explained: how it reaches a website or a computer and how to be ready

The short answer: ransomware is malicious software that encrypts your files and demands a ransom to give them back. You cannot avoid it entirely, but you can prepare: keep everything…

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Customer data in your shop: consent, data requests and deleting an account

Every order leaves in the shop a name, an address, a phone number and an e-mail. That is personal data, and whoever keeps it has duties: say what it is…

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How to fix CLS: why the page jumps while it loads

CLS measures how much the content moves while the page loads: you go to tap a button and at the last instant an ad appears above it and the button…

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SSD or NVMe storage: does the difference matter for a website

NVMe is a faster kind of SSD, and for an ordinary website it is almost never what makes the site fast or slow. It matters when there is a heavily…

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Checkout errors in WooCommerce: where to look

The customer reaches checkout and the shop jams: the button does nothing, an error appears, the payment method is missing, or the payment goes through and the order never shows.…

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A strong password and a password manager: how to stop reusing the same one

The short answer: a strong password is long, unique and has nothing to do with you. Nobody memorises dozens of them, and you do not need to: you keep them…

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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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How to install Apache on a VPS and set up a virtual host

On Ubuntu or Debian you install Apache with sudo apt install apache2, write a site file in /etc/apache2/sites-available/ holding a VirtualHost that points at your folder, enable it with sudo…