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LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress: the first settings

The server your site runs on uses LiteSpeed Enterprise, and the LiteSpeed Cache plugin is the piece of WordPress that talks to it. With page caching on, a visitor asking…

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WordPress permalinks and the 404 that follows

You changed the permalinks, moved the site or updated something, and now only the home page opens: everything else returns a 404 error. Almost always the content is fine. What…

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WordPress Heartbeat: what it is and why it keeps calling the server

The short answer: Heartbeat is a “pulse” that WordPress sends to the server every few seconds while the dashboard or the editor is open. It is used to save drafts,…

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Profile pictures in WordPress: how Gravatar works and how to change yours

The short answer: the small photo beside your name (in comments, on authors) comes, by default, from Gravatar, a free service that ties a photo to an e-mail address. To…

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Page or post in WordPress: which to use for what

The short answer: use a page for what does not change with time and is part of the site (About, Services, Contact) and a post for what has a date…

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The WordPress RSS feed: what it is, where to find it and when to turn it off

The short answer: the RSS feed is a list of your latest posts, written for programs to read, not people. WordPress creates it by itself, at your-domain.com/feed/. It serves news…

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WordPress or a static website: which is simpler, safer and faster

If the site changes rarely and has only a few pages, a static site is the simplest, the safest and the fastest. If it changes often, or is edited by…

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Hiding WordPress usernames: author pages, the REST API and login messages

The short answer: WordPress shows, without meaning to, the usernames of those who write on the site: on author pages, in the REST API and even in the login error…

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Widgets and sidebars in WordPress: what they are, and what changed with block themes

The short answer: a widget is a block of content you put in a fixed area of the site, such as the sidebar or footer (search, recent posts, categories, a…

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A multilingual WordPress site: plugin options, URLs and what Google needs

The short answer: WordPress on its own has a single language. For a site in several there are three ways: a plugin that stores each page in each language, a…