268 results for «WordPress» (page 17 of 27)
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Cron jobs worth setting up on a small website: seven ideas that save time
A cron job is for anything you would otherwise repeat by hand at the same time every day or week: taking a copy of the database, deleting temporary files, importing…
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SQLite or MySQL: which one fits a small project
The short answer: SQLite fits a small application with few users writing at the same time and nobody from outside needing the database. MySQL (here, MariaDB) fits anything that is…
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Site with a CDN or without: how to test whether it made a difference
Short answer: a CDN is worth keeping only if the numbers for your site improve for your visitors. You do not decide it by hearsay: you measure before, switch it…
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PostgreSQL or MySQL: which one for your project
If you are installing WordPress, Joomla, PrestaShop or another ready-made application, use MySQL (here, MariaDB): that is what those applications were written for. If you are writing your own application,…
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Posting to social networks automatically: what automation can and cannot do
You can make every new article on your site produce a social post, but the best way to do it is to automate the draft and not the publishing. The…
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How to remove a page from Google results: noindex, removal tool or password
It depends on what you want. For the page to stop existing, delete it and make it return 404 (or 410). For the page to stay but be out of…
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Slow queries: how to find them and the fixes that work most often
A site that is slow because of the database almost always has one or two queries doing all the work, and the most frequent fix is a missing index. The…
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Sending e-mail from PHP: mail() or SMTP
Use SMTP with a real mailbox on your domain. The mail() function is fine for a quick test, but it returns “sent” only because the local mail program accepted the…
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A table marked as crashed: what it means and how to repair it
The message Table is marked as crashed and should be repaired means a table, almost always of the MyISAM type, has an inconsistent file, usually because something stopped halfway through…
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Character sets: utf8mb4, collation, and the question marks in your text
If accented text shows up as ??? or as é instead of é, the database, the connection and the page are not speaking the same character set. The rule that…





