What is .htaccess and How to Use it With WordPress
WordPress relies on several core files to run your website and the powerful .htaccess configuration file is one of them. Short for “hypertext access,” WordPress uses this file primarily to handle pretty permalinks. But its true power lies in its ability to override your server’s settings—enabling you to add your own rules to this file…
What Are Google Soft 404 Errors (and How to Fix Them)
Soft 404s are fairly common errors that Google sometimes throws up for web pages, particularly for larger sites. They’re also a strange error because soft 404s are a hybrid of 404 and normal pages, and what exactly is causing this error for a particular page might not always be clear. So in this post, I…
What is GZIP Compression for WordPress?
Learn all about how GZIP compression works, how to check if it’s enabled on your WordPress site, and how to switch it on if it’s not in this in-depth guide.
