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​How to install the Wordpress Litespeed cache plugin

What is LiteSpeed Cache and what can it do for me? So you have installed WordPress and are working to improve the speed of your site and you come across LiteSpeed cache. What is it? What can it do fo…

Updated 4 months ago by Ben Oates

​How to install WordPress using Softaculous

Before you start the WordPress installation please ensure you've applied a LetsEncrypt SSL certificate (or installed your own EV SSL if you have one) - so that your site will be served over HTTPS. Fr…

Updated 4 months ago by Mark West

How to install WordPress using Installatron

Before you start the WordPress installation please ensure you've applied a LetsEncrypt SSL certificate (or installed your own EV SSL if you have one) - this will ensure your site will be served over…

Updated 4 months ago by Ben Oates

How to reset your Wordpress password

This guide details three ways to reset the password for a WordPress user account. The first should be used when you know the username or email address of the user account you are trying to reset. Thi…

Updated 4 months ago by Mark West

How to disable the WordPress CRON job and set it up in cPanel

WordPress doesn’t have a built-in scheduler to run regular tasks, so to get around this it fires off a request to process wp-cron.php every time a visitor requests a page. There are a couple of issue…

Updated 3 months ago by Ben Oates

Fixing WordPress mixed content issues

When you visit a site using https:// your browser will expect all the content to be sent securely, over SSL - which is what gives you https (HTTP Secure) and the secure (sometimes green) padlock in y…

Updated 4 months ago by Ben Oates

How to optimise your WordPress site

Background. Before we get into the nuts and bolts detail, it’s really important to understand a little about what makes WordPress so great. WordPress is hugely extensible - with a huge array of theme…

Updated 4 months ago by Ben Oates

Securing forms in Wordpress with Google reCAPTCHA

Form attacks come in a number of guises, most commonly: Brute force attacks - where an attacker repeatedly tries different usernames & passwords to try and access your WordPress login, registration o…

Updated 4 months ago by Ben Oates

Securing and hardening Wordpress

This guide includes a number of WordPress post-installation steps to further improve the security of your site. We are making some assumptions in this guide: that before installing WordPress you enab…

Updated 4 months ago by Ben Oates

How to restore a WordPress site

There are all manner of reasons why you might need to rollback or restore a WordPress site - maybe an update didn't work as expected or your site was hacked and is now infected with malware. We offer…

Updated 2 months ago by Ben Oates

How to check and increase your WordPress site's memory limit

WordPress can sometimes run out of memory. This isn't very common, and usually only happens on either extremely busy or fully featured sites (lots of plug-ins and/or functionality) or if there's a co…

Updated 2 months ago by Ben Oates

View PHP errors in WordPress by enabling wp-debug mode

WordPress is a PHP based Content Management System (CMS). It's likely that at some point you'll need to fault-find a PHP error. The most common of these is the white-screen - where your site simply o…

Updated 2 months ago by Ben Oates

How to use SVGs in WordPress

SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is an XML-based vector image format. SVG has several potential benefits over other graphics formats like JPG or PNG. Firstly there's a clue in the name - SVGs are scala…

Updated 2 months ago by Ben Oates

Using SMTP to send emails from WordPress

By default email from your WordPress site will be sent using PHP mail by your hosting server. In theory, this is quick and requires no setup from you. However, emails sent this way are not authentica…

Updated 4 months ago by Mark West

Using the LiteSpeed Cache Image Optimisation tool in WordPress

This is a companion guide to our Installing the WordPress LiteSpeed cache plugin and How to optimise your WordPress site guides. You'll need to have the WordPress LiteSpeed cache plugin installed to…

Updated 2 months ago by Mark West

How to optimise your WordPress database

As your site grows, you add posts and pages, users accounts - your WordPress database will also grow - containing previous versions of posts and pages as well as other 'transient' data. All of this e…

Updated 2 months ago by Mark West

How to move a site from WordPress.com to self-hosted (wordpress.org) on Krystal

If you have been using WordPress.com for some time, and your blog has grown, you might have come to the point where you want to add more functionality than WordPress.com can provide. Maybe you want t…

Updated 2 months ago by Mark West

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