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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I have been dealing with a problem for some time now for which I have not yet found a definitive solution. The issue is that, right after publishing a post, the CPU consumption skyrockets as well as the number of processes leaving the site practically inaccessible for long periods of time. This is
IndexNow is a free and open source protocol under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons licence that allows you to notify search engines that you have just published something new, that a piece of content has been modified and updated or that a URL has been removed by sending a ping to the search engines
If a few days ago we saw how to split long WordPress posts into pages without affecting SEO, today we will add an extra function that allows you to easily find and categorise those long posts according to content type, length and language. When you have only a few long entries it is
When I started blogging, I didn't follow any SEO or optimisation rules or anything else. I just posted and that was it. This caused me to accumulate thousands of unoptimised images and hundreds of long, very long articles. Then I continued to publish other long articles that I optimised just enough. So, to
In the recent update of the LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress (LSCWP) plugin to version 7.0, the AVIF format has been added to its image optimisation option. Since 2023, WordPress version 6.5 allows uploading and serving images in AVIF format and since then I've been using them in longer posts and even manually replacing
