265 results for «WordPress» (page 24 of 27)
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A website form that is safe and spam-free: honeypot, captcha and validation
The short answer: a form is a door that anyone, and any robot, can try. To keep it spam-free, add a trap field (a honeypot) and, if needed, a captcha.…
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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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Entry processes: why a site with few visitors can still hit the limit
Entry processes measure how many things are entering your account at the same time: each request to a PHP page, each scheduled task, each SSH session. They do not measure…
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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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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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Videos on your website: upload them or embed from a video service
The short answer: for most sites, embed the video from a proper video service (such as YouTube or Vimeo) instead of storing it on the hosting. A video is heavy,…
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A 30-minute monthly routine to keep your website healthy
The short answer: a site does not break all at once: it accumulates small faults (a plugin not updated, a form that stopped arriving, a backup that was never tested).…
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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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How a website works: from the address you type to the page on your screen
The short answer: when you type an address, the browser asks DNS which server belongs to that name, connects to that server, and the server sends back the page. In…





