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Importing a theme’s demo content without wrecking your site

The short answer: many themes come with an “Import demo” button that copies the example’s pages, images and menus into your site. It is the quickest way to get a…

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Website statistics without Google: Matomo on your hosting, or Plausible on a VPS

The short answer: to know how many people visit your site you do not have to hand the data to Google. Matomo does the same job and runs on your…

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Plesk or HestiaCP on your VPS: the differences that matter

The short answer: both give you sites, e-mail and DNS on the same server. Choose Plesk if you will have customers or resellers, want WP Toolkit and the Node.js and…

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Alt text and file names for images: what to write, and what to avoid

Alt text is a short phrase that describes the image to those who cannot see it: screen readers, slow connections where the image did not load, and search engines. Write…

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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 domain or subdomain opens the wrong site: the document root and how to check it

The short answer: each domain and subdomain on a hosting account points to a folder (the “document root”) and shows what is in that folder. If one shows another’s site,…

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How to find your browser, operating system and PHP version before you write to support

When a problem only happens on one computer, in one browser or after an update, the next question is always “which version do you have?”. Answering in the first ticket…

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A table marked as crashed: what it means and how to repair it

The message Table is marked as crashed and should be repaired means a table, almost always of the MyISAM type, has an inconsistent file, usually because something stopped halfway through…

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Google Tag Manager and tracking pixels: adding them without slowing your site

The short answer: Google Tag Manager is a dashboard where you keep, in one place, the tracking codes of your site (statistics, ad pixels, chat buttons). You put a single…

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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.…