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22 Common WordPress Errors and How to Fix Them

Common WordPress errors

WordPress is a powerful and secure platform, but that doesn’t mean your experience using it will always be smooth. On occasion, you might encounter common WordPress errors while working on your website. Although some of these are harmless, others can have significant consequences, and therefore require immediate attention.

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Stay Safe Online: 5 Best Secure Email Providers

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In recent years we've learned that hackers have been able to access some of the most secure online databases - even those of the cybersecurity capital of the world. That alone is reason enough not to keep your sensitive messages on standard email servers. You might, instead, want to invest in the best secure email providers. This guide will make that quest particularly easy. It offers a crash course on the best secure email providers, the top email encryption services, and the most secure free email services.

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What Is the Average Cost of Website Design for Small Business?

average cost of website design for small business

Launching a website can be a daunting task for beginners, especially since there are different avenues to consider. For example, you might not know whether to hire a designer or have a go at it yourself. However, it’s even harder to make a decision without knowing the average cost of website design for small business. To help you out, we’ve put together a breakdown of web design costs for small businesses.

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WooCommerce vs Magento: Which Is Better for Ecommerce?

WooCommerce vs Magento

If you're starting an ecommerce site, you'll need a platform that can help you run your online business efficiently. There are many options available, but WooCommerce and Magento consistently show up on short lists. To cut through the fog and simplify things for you, we've put together a detailed comparison of these two popular ecommerce platforms.

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WordPress HTML Sitemap: What It Is, Why and How to Create It

wordpress html sitemap

A good User Experience (UX) can help you increase engagement on your website. An effective way to achieve this is by creating a WordPress HTML sitemap. However, if you’re unfamiliar with this feature, you might be wondering how to implement it on your site. Fortunately, the process is easier than you might think! There’s no coding involved in creating a WordPress HTML sitemap and you can simply use a plugin to add it to your site.

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10 Best Gutenberg Block Plugins to Check Out This Year

best Gutenberg block plugins

The Gutenberg editor, introduced in WordPress 5.0, offers a library of pre-built elements or ‘blocks’ that help you create websites in a more visual way. WordPress 6.0 adds a new set of blocks and design enhancements to specific blocks. And now, you have the best Gutenberg block plugins to add various items to the Block editor. All this gives you more control over website-building, allowing you to launch any type of website at the drop of a hat.

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WordPress Template Hierarchy Explained

WordPress Template Hierarchy

This post clears things up and explains how WordPress decides which file to load for a page, both in classic and block themes. I'll show where the templates go, what WordPress looks for first, and how it moves down the list when files are missing. If you're building or editing a theme, this is what you need to know first.

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Defer Offscreen Images: How to Fix This Google Lighthouse Opportunity

Measuring your site’s performance has often been a hit or miss job. This is because the available tools didn’t give us a proper insight into the experience of the user relative to that site performance. However, Google Lighthouse fixes a lot of these drawbacks, and makes it so you can fit it into your development workflow. One of the ‘opportunities’ within Lighthouse is to defer offscreen images in WordPress. The good news is this is simple to achieve.

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How to Stop a DDoS Attack and Save Your Website in the Process

how to stop a ddos attack

A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is one of the best ways to take down a site fast. For a site owner, it’s devastating. For the attack, it can be a ‘cheap’ computational way to cause chaos to an unsuspecting site. We’d bet that you don’t want to be the malicious user in this case, so we’re going to teach you how to stop a DDoS attack.

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