WordPress was born in 2003 when Mike Little and Matt Mullenweg created a fork of the defunct b2/cafelog CMS created by French PHP programmer Michel Valdrighi in 2001.
The need for an elegant and well-designed personal publishing system was evident even then. Today, WordPress is based on PHP and MySQL, is GPLv2 licensed, and is also the platform of choice for more than 42% of all websites on the internet.
This open source WordPress project has evolved progressively over time, with the support of expert developers and enthusiasts, designers, scientists, bloggers and others. WordPress offers the possibility for anyone to create and share any content. People with little experience in technology, design or programming can use it "just like that", and experts can customise it almost without limits.
Here you will find articles related to this popular and veteran CMS, its plugins, optimisation tips, bug fixes, etc.
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This tool, which takes the form of a snippet, plugin (or lightweight PHP script), analyses all the content published on your site in batches to identify cannibalisation issues between SEO titles and native titles. I used it to tidy up a website that had loads of titles that were exactly the same, many ... Read more
A few days ago, I finished a long-overdue task that needed doing, but I’d been putting it off for ages. I retrievedallthe missing featured images and added all the missing alt text to the images. I also finished writing all the missing meta descriptions. In total, I added or edited over 15,000 records ... Read more
If you manage your own server or use a hosting service with console access, you’re bound to be familiar with top (or htop): the classic terminal tool for viewing CPU usage, RAM usage and active processes in real time. It’s a useful solution if you manage production sites and want to monitor load ... Read more
As you may have already noticed, the‘News’ page has been restored and the‘Cartoons’ page – which previously relied on an external service (Elfsight) – has been redesigned. To achieve this, a small programme has been created to act as an aggregator/reader, and the page loads almost instantly. In this post, you’ll find the ... Read more
Broken links cause a loss of authority (link juice) and eat into thecrawl budget, as search engine bots waste time indexing HTTP 404 responses instead of valuable content. They also degrade the user experience by disrupting the flow of navigation and increasing the bounce rate. By fixing them with 301 redirects or updating ... Read more
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