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Automatic daily backup or your own copy: which one saves you, and when

Short answer: they are not alternatives, they cover different problems. The automatic daily backup handles most everyday disasters (a deleted file, a plugin that broke the site). Your own copy,…

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Coupons in WooCommerce

A coupon is a code the customer types in the cart to get a discount. WooCommerce ships with it, but it is switched off until you enable it, and nearly…

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The site moved but something is broken: what each symptom points to

After a move, each error almost always has one typical cause. Instead of redoing everything, read the symptom, go to the most likely cause and confirm it in the error…

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I deleted a file or folder by mistake: how to get it back from a backup

If you deleted a file or a folder, getting it back is almost always quick and does not need a restore of the whole account. First look in the File…

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301 redirects when you change a page or a domain

You changed a page’s address, deleted an article or switched domain. Anyone holding the old address (in a bookmark, a search result, a link on another site) now lands on…

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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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Giving a developer access to your site without handing over your password

You do not need to give the password of your account to whoever builds your site. There are smaller accesses that are enough for the job, that you can switch…

MozOut Mozambique www.meu.mozout.co.mz › Meu MozOut › Knowledge Base Knowledge basePHP & Development

Fixing “Allowed memory size exhausted”

The full message reads “Allowed memory size of … bytes exhausted (tried to allocate … bytes)”. It means a single request tried to use more memory than PHP’s memory_limit allows.…

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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 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…