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Collecting subscribers and sending a newsletter from a WordPress site

The short answer: the site collects the addresses (with a form), but it should not be the one sending a message to many people. For that you use a proper…

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A multilingual WordPress site: plugin options, URLs and what Google needs

The short answer: WordPress on its own has a single language. For a site in several there are three ways: a plugin that stores each page in each language, a…

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Object cache with Redis for WordPress on a VPS: what it speeds up and how to set it up

The short answer: an object cache keeps in memory the answers WordPress asks the database for, so it does not ask again. It helps where the page cache cannot reach:…

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WordPress comments: switch them on or off, moderate them and keep them tidy

The short answer: comments give a blog life, but on a company site they tend to cost more work (and spam) than they are worth. The rules are under Settings…

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Profile pictures in WordPress: how Gravatar works and how to change yours

The short answer: the small photo beside your name (in comments, on authors) comes, by default, from Gravatar, a free service that ties a photo to an e-mail address. To…

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Deleting a WordPress user without losing their posts

The short answer: when you delete a user, WordPress asks what to do with what they wrote: delete everything or pass it to another user. If you do not pick…

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Choosing your WordPress home page: a static page or your latest posts

The short answer: WordPress can show on the home page your latest posts (like a blog) or a fixed page you wrote (like a company site). You choose it under…

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Search on a WordPress site: why the built-in one disappoints and how to improve it

The short answer: WordPress search looks for the words you wrote in titles and texts, and little else: it does not forgive typos, does not understand synonyms and rarely finds…

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The wrong date or time on your site or e-mails: WordPress, PHP and time zones

The short answer: “the time is wrong” can come from four places, and fixing one does not fix the others: WordPress (the time of posts and scheduled publications), PHP (hand-made…

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A test copy (staging) of your WordPress site: changing things safely

The short answer: a test copy is a second site, identical to yours, that only you see. You try the new theme, the big update, the plugin you do not…