Why 'admin' and a weak password cost a reader 3 days A reader's site started showing spam ads he never added. Someone had broken into his dashboard (the control panel where you manage your site). Two …
One checkbox saved a reader 1.4 seconds on phones A travel blogger had pages packed with 25 photos. On phones they loaded painfully slowly, because the browser tried to fetch all 25 at once, even the …
How a test copy prevented a broken homepage A reader was scared to update his theme (a theme is the design and layout of your site). Last time, an update had broken his homepage for two days. This tim…
Deleting 18 plugins doubled the speed A reader's site felt slow and crashed weekly. When we looked, he had 31 plugins installed. Many did the same job twice. Remember, a plugin is an add-on that gives…
A $4 backup plugin saved a $9,000 month A small shop owner updated her site late one night, and the screen went blank. Years of product pages, gone-looking. Luckily, three days earlier she had install…
Changing one setting brought 30% more clicks A new blogger had ugly web addresses like yoursite.com/?p=42. The number means nothing to a human or to Google. A permalink is simply the readable web addr…
