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Updated: May 1, 2023 WordPress lives in its database. The files and folders on your server are for appearances only. CSS, Javascript, and PHP files can usually be replaced from other sources. But your content – that is what makes your site special and unique. And that content lives in the database. If you had […]
A lot of our Resellers want to have the ability to resell our VPS Hosting packages. Given our low prices, many Resellers find comfort in being able to offer the same high-speed infrastructure to their larger customers that require more dedicated resources. For this reason, we’ve designed all our VPS hosting packages to be 100% […]
Shortcodes are a very powerful feature in WordPress that allows you to replace some text with something else when the page is displayed. Since the processing for the shortcode happens in the background at runtime, the result can be different. Perhaps you want to pull a value from a database. In this step by step […]
I decided to go out on a limb today and daringly install the Gutenberg editor for WordPress plugin that will soon be replacing the classic editor in WordPress 5.0. There is a lot of discussion amongst the WordPress community questioning the move, some stating that it’s a mistake for WordPress to include it in its […]
WordPress is racing towards their controversial 5.0 update which includes the Gutenberg page/post editor in its core. Feedback from the WordPress community doesn’t seem all that promising: Earlier today, I had Bhagwad share his thoughts on the blog, which he calls Gutenberg annoying as hell. Personally, I’m old-school, and I’ve had a hard enough time […]
All themes need to be customized in order to achieve the look and feel you want. Despite the thousands of free and paid themes for WordPress, you’ll never find one that fits you out of the box. One of the most common customizations is to change the background, the font color etc. Unfortunately, not all […]
Most WordPress themes display their name with a link back to their site. Here’s an example: It’s possible to remove these links. However, not all themes make it easy. In general, there are three types of themes with regard to footer links. Those like Genesis which explicitly have provisions to remove the links “Norma” themes […]
Google Analytics is such an important part of a webmaster’s arsenal, that I honestly don’t know a single site owner who doesn’t use it. For tracking and reports, there’s nothing better. And it’s free! All you need to do is add a snippet of code to your website and you’re done. The problem however, comes […]
The Linux command line can leave you feeling as if you don’t have all the information at your fingertips. In a traditional GUI, you can just peek at the bottom of the window and see how much space a folder is using. Or you can hover over a file or folder and get its size. […]
In the last tutorial, we saw how to give a user sudo privileges. One of the main benefits, is that we’re now free to disable root logins on Linux. So why is important? Most Linux installations come with the root user by default. Ubuntu is one notable exception where root is disabled. The problem with […]