284 results for «WordPress» (page 25 of 29)
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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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SSD or NVMe storage: does the difference matter for a website
NVMe is a faster kind of SSD, and for an ordinary website it is almost never what makes the site fast or slow. It matters when there is a heavily…
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Entry processes: why a site with few visitors can still hit the limit
Entry processes measure how many things are entering your account at the same time: each request to a PHP page, each scheduled task, each SSH session. They do not measure…
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Query strings explained: what comes after the question mark, and what it changes
The short answer: everything after the ? in an address is the query string: name=value pairs separated by &, up to the end of the address or a “#”. The…
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A CDN in front of a shop or members area: what must never be cached
The short answer: in a shop, or on any site with accounts, the same page is not the same for everyone: the cart, the total, the name at the top,…
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Before you publish your website: a ten-point launch checklist
The short answer: the day the site goes live is the worst day to find out the form does not work. These ten checks take an hour and catch almost…
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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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A support request that gets a fast answer: what to include, by type of problem
The short answer: the fastest answer is the one that does not need a question back. A request with the site address, what you expected, what happened and when usually…
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Product reviews in WooCommerce: switching them on, verified owners and moderation
The short answer: reviews give confidence to those who have not bought yet. In WooCommerce you switch them on with one setting, and you can require that only people who…
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Error 500 Internal Server Error: finding the cause, step by step
The short answer: error 500 means “something went wrong on the server and I cannot say what”. The cause is almost always in the error log, and almost always one…





