271 results for «WordPress» (page 25 of 28)
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Accents turning into strange symbols on your site: UTF-8 from file to database
The short answer: “ação” shows as “ação”, or as “a��o”, or as “a?o”. It is always the same problem: the text was written in one alphabet (encoding) and read in…
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Which hosting plan for a hotel, lodge or tour operator: photos, bookings and several languages
The short answer: a tourism site lives on big photographs and several languages, and most visits come from abroad, from phones and from slow connections. To start, an entry shared…
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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…
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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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Which hosting plan for a news site or magazine: traffic peaks, ads and a growing archive
The short answer: a news site has three weights: the peaks when a story spreads, the ads, which load third-party scripts, and the archive, which only grows. At the start,…
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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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Importing a theme’s demo content without wrecking your site
The short answer: many themes come with an “Import demo” button that copies the example’s pages, images and menus into your site. It is the quickest way to get a…
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Query strings explained: what comes after the question mark, and what it changes
The short answer: everything after the ? in an address is the query string: name=value pairs separated by &, up to the end of the address or a “#”. The…
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Before you publish your website: a ten-point launch checklist
The short answer: the day the site goes live is the worst day to find out the form does not work. These ten checks take an hour and catch almost…
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A website people can install like an app: PWA basics
The short answer: a PWA is a normal website with two things added: a small file that describes it (the manifest) and, if you want it to work offline, a…





