Hosting your WordPress website on your Synology NAS brings hosting costs to zero. Today I will teach you how to prevent image hotlinking on your WordPress website hosted on your Synology NAS. First of all, image hotlinking is when someone embeds your images on their website by linking them directly from your website. This can … Read more about WordPress: How to Prevent Image Hotlinking
Starting with version 4.2 WordPress has changed the database character set from utf8_general_ci to utf8mb4_unicode_ci (which was necessary, for example, for full emoji support) if a few requirements have been met. In this article I will teach you how to manually make the switch from utf8_general_ci to utf8mb4_unicode_ci using phpMyAdmin if you did not meet … Read more about phpMyAdmin: How to Convert utf8_general_ci Database to utf8mb4_unicode_ci
WordPress version 5.5.3 was released today after a bug was discovered in the previous WordPress version 5.5.2 released yesterday. When people try to install a new fresh version of WordPress, they get the following message: Your site has updated to WordPress 5.5.3-alpha-49449. The new maintenance released today “5.5.3” fixes an issue present in WordPress 5.5.2 … Read more about Synology: WordPress 5.5.3
On October 29, 2020, WordPress 5.5.2 was released to the public. This version is available for “download” from wordpress.org and not in the Synology Package Center. So, if you want to download and install WordPress 5.5.2 on your Synology NAS, you have to follow my step by step guide on how to manually update a … Read more about Synology: WordPress 5.5.2
As you can see this website does not use jQuery. For many years now, WordPress has kept a version of jQuery that has security issues (1.12.4) and is outdated. By completely removing jQuery all errors resulting from it on Lighthouse will disappear. Completely removing jQuery also has its drawbacks. Many plugins and themes use jQuery … Read more about How To Completely Remove jQuery From WordPress
Are you worried about how to convert your .jpg and .png images to .webp files using a simple website? No Cloud, no subscription, no premium fees or accounts needed. A very lean and smart solution to shrinking your image file-sizes to improve your blog’s page-speed without paying anything for this basic service. Now you can … Read more about How To Upload WebP Files on WordPress