178 results for «WordPress» (page 10 of 18)
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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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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 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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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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Opening an online shop without starting from nothing
Building a shop from scratch, product by product, text by text, is what makes most people give up halfway. It is not necessary. There are real shortcuts, and there are…
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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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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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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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Disabling plugins, including when you cannot get in
Disabling plugins is the first thing to try when a WordPress site breaks after an update, after a new install, or for no visible reason at all. A plugin is…
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Browser caching with .htaccess
Browser caching is the kind that lives on the visitor’s own computer: if the logo, the CSS and the JavaScript arrive with an instruction saying “keep this for a while”,…





