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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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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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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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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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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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ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS: when the site redirects in a circle

The short answer: the browser says “the page redirected you too many times” when two rules contradict each other and send you back and forth, endlessly. It is almost always…

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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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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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Scanning your site for malware in cPanel: what Imunify finds and what to do with the result

The short answer: cPanel has a tool called Imunify360, in the Security group, that scans your account’s files for malicious code (malware). You can order a scan whenever you like…