178 results for «WordPress» (page 9 of 18)
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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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What Yoast SEO is, and what it actually does
Yoast SEO is a WordPress plugin that gathers, into a single panel, the technical settings that help search engines understand a site: titles, descriptions, sitemap, structured data and indexing rules.…
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WooCommerce: what it is, and what you need before you start
WooCommerce is a free plugin that turns a WordPress site into a shop: catalogue, cart, checkout, orders, customers and shipping. It is not a separate service and not a place…
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Installing and tuning a page cache
Without a cache, every visit makes the server build the page again: query the database, run the PHP, assemble the HTML. With a cache, the finished page is handed over…
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Changing your PHP version without breaking the site
Switching version is one click, and it is written out step by step in «How to change your PHP version». This article is the other half, the half that is…
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Rebuilding the wp-config.php connection
wp-config.php is the file that tells WordPress which database to connect to, and with what password. Without it, WordPress shows the installation screen, as though the site had never existed.…
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The first Yoast SEO settings to get right
Yoast runs perfectly well badly configured, and that is what fools people: it looks done. These are the settings worth doing on day one, in order, and the ones you…
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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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Using Elementor
Elementor is a visual builder for WordPress: instead of writing code, you drag blocks onto the page and see the result as you drag them. It is the shortest route…
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Cleaning and optimising the database in phpMyAdmin
A site with a few years behind it carries a database full of things nobody reads: a revision of every single save, spam comments from 2021, options from plugins deleted…





