284 results for «WordPress» (page 14 of 29)
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Installing and tuning a page cache
Without a cache, every visit makes the server build the page again: query the database, run the PHP, assemble the HTML. With a cache, the finished page is handed over…
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My MozOut vs cPanel: which panel to use for what
These are two different panels, with two different passwords, and mixing them up wastes more time than almost anything else. The rule fits on one line: My MozOut is where…
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Rebuilding the wp-config.php connection
wp-config.php is the file that tells WordPress which database to connect to, and with what password. Without it, WordPress shows the installation screen, as though the site had never existed.…
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A Sitejet site and another website on the same plan
A plan can hold more than one site, up to the plan's limit. What it cannot do is hold two sites in the same folder. The rule: one folder per…
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Disabling plugins, including when you cannot get in
Disabling plugins is the first thing to try when a WordPress site breaks after an update, after a new install, or for no visible reason at all. A plugin is…
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Changing your PHP version without breaking the site
Switching version is one click, and it is written out step by step in «How to change your PHP version». This article is the other half, the half that is…
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What Yoast SEO is, and what it actually does
Yoast SEO is a WordPress plugin that gathers, into a single panel, the technical settings that help search engines understand a site: titles, descriptions, sitemap, structured data and indexing rules.…
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Using Elementor
Elementor is a visual builder for WordPress: instead of writing code, you drag blocks onto the page and see the result as you drag them. It is the shortest route…
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The first Yoast SEO settings to get right
Yoast runs perfectly well badly configured, and that is what fools people: it looks done. These are the settings worth doing on day one, in order, and the ones you…
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Cleaning and optimising the database in phpMyAdmin
A site with a few years behind it carries a database full of things nobody reads: a revision of every single save, spam comments from 2021, options from plugins deleted…





