267 results for «WordPress» (page 13 of 27)
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Swapping WP-Cron for a real server cron job
WordPress has a scheduler of its own, WP-Cron, which handles scheduled posts, update checks, emptying the bin and the e-mails your plugins send. The name misleads: it is not a…
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WooCommerce: what it is, and what you need before you start
WooCommerce is a free plugin that turns a WordPress site into a shop: catalogue, cart, checkout, orders, customers and shipping. It is not a separate service and not a place…
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Where each application keeps its database connection details
Every website that stores anything has, somewhere in its files, four lines holding the database name, the user, the password and the host. It is the only place those things…
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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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PHP or Node.js for your web project: how to choose
If you are installing WordPress, a shop or another ready-made program, use PHP: it is what the program asks for. If you are writing an application of your own, with…
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What a CDN does for you: caching, compression, images and protection
People switch a CDN on expecting speed and get four different things at once. It is worth knowing which is which, because each one goes on and off separately, and…
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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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Building a campaign page fast, with AI help
A campaign page is one page, with one goal and one action: leave a contact, ask for a quote, book, buy. It has no menu to distract, it does not…
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What a CMS is, and which one to choose for what you want to build
A CMS is a content management system: a program that lives on your hosting and gives you a panel, inside your browser, where you write pages, upload photographs and rearrange…
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PHP warnings showing on your site: what they are and how to silence them
At the top of the page, or in the middle of the dashboard, lines appear like Warning: ... in /home/account/public_html/wp-content/plugins/... on line 214. The site still works. But it is…





