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admin-ajax eating your resources: how to find out and cut it down

admin-ajax.php is the door through which plugins talk to the server in the background, without reloading the page. It serves the dashboard and it serves the public side of the…

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An abandoned plugin or an old PHP version: how to spot the risks on your site

The short answer: most hacked sites were not caught by a clever attack, but by an old part with a known flaw: a plugin its author stopped updating, a forgotten…

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A contact form that actually reaches your inbox

Building the form is the easy part: any plugin draws one in ten minutes. The hard part, and the one that loses business without anyone noticing, is the message arriving.…

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A shop that holds up: what to do before you open

A shop that is idle is a website. A shop that is selling is a system, and it fails in ways an ordinary site never does: the order e-mail that…

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Error establishing a database connection: the causes, in order

The page shows one white line saying «Error establishing a database connection» and nothing else. It is not a WordPress fault: it is WordPress telling you it asked the database…

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Putting products on sale in WooCommerce

A WooCommerce product is an ordinary WordPress post with extra fields. You create one under Products and Add New. The work is not in filling the form, it is in…

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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…

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robots.txt and sitemap.xml: what they do and how to check them

They are two small files that speak to search engines, and it is very common for one of them to be wrong without anyone noticing. robots.txt tells robots where they…

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Scanning your site for malware in cPanel: what Imunify finds and what to do with the result

The short answer: cPanel has a tool called Imunify360, in the Security group, that scans your account’s files for malicious code (malware). You can order a scan whenever you like…

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How a website works: from the address you type to the page on your screen

The short answer: when you type an address, the browser asks DNS which server belongs to that name, connects to that server, and the server sends back the page. In…