WordPress: Search the site | Interweb Mozambique

Interweb Mozambique www.meu.interweb.co.mz › Meu Interweb › Knowledge Base Knowledge baseDatabases

Creating a database user and giving it the right privileges

A database without a user is no use to anyone, and a user with too many privileges is an open door. In cPanel you do it in MySQL Databases: create…

Interweb Mozambique www.meu.interweb.co.mz › Meu Interweb › Knowledge Base Knowledge baseComparisons and alternatives

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,…

Interweb Mozambique www.meu.interweb.co.mz › Meu Interweb › Knowledge Base Knowledge basecPanel & WHM

Disk space nearly full on your hosting plan: what to delete first, step by step

The short answer: when space gets close to the limit, start with what weighs a lot and is not needed: full backups left inside the account, the File Manager trash,…

Interweb Mozambique www.meu.interweb.co.mz › Meu Interweb › Knowledge Base Knowledge baseWordPress & CMS

Mixed content after moving to HTTPS: the padlock that will not turn on

The certificate is installed, the site opens on https, and the browser still says “not secure” or shows a padlock with a warning. That is mixed content: the page is…

Interweb Mozambique www.meu.interweb.co.mz › Meu Interweb › Knowledge Base Knowledge baseSpeed, Cache & CDN

Image optimisation and WebP

Images are often the heaviest part of a page. WebP is an image format made by Google that usually keeps the same look in fewer bytes than JPEG or PNG,…

Interweb Mozambique www.meu.interweb.co.mz › Meu Interweb › Knowledge Base Knowledge baseDatabases

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…

Interweb Mozambique www.meu.interweb.co.mz › Meu Interweb › Knowledge Base Knowledge baseBackups & Migration

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…

Interweb Mozambique www.meu.interweb.co.mz › Meu Interweb › Knowledge Base Knowledge baseSecurity

A website form that is safe and spam-free: honeypot, captcha and validation

The short answer: a form is a door that anyone, and any robot, can try. To keep it spam-free, add a trap field (a honeypot) and, if needed, a captcha.…

Interweb Mozambique www.meu.interweb.co.mz › Meu Interweb › Knowledge Base Knowledge baseBackups & Migration

Off-site backups: sending a copy to cloud storage, an S3 bucket or Google Drive

An off-site copy is the one that survives losing the account. There are five ways to get one out: a WordPress backup plugin with a cloud destination, a backup program…

Interweb Mozambique www.meu.interweb.co.mz › Meu Interweb › Knowledge Base Knowledge baseSecurity

ModSecurity and web application firewalls: what they do, and what to do when one blocks you

The short answer: a web application firewall (WAF) reads every request reaching your site and refuses the ones shaped like an attack. ModSecurity is the best-known engine, and it is…