Tag: WordPress

WordPress still registers a dozen legacy widgets, but on a modern site most of the clutter is now blocks. Here is what each method actually removes, tested on a current install.

The empirical companion piece on what we actually installed, measured, and switched to when evaluating syntax highlighting.

A visitor mistypes a URL and lands on your tidy "page not found" screen. It looks correct. But if that screen was delivered with an HTTP 200, a search engine just saw a real page where there is nothing - and it may index the emptiness. The words say "not found"; the status code says "here's content."

You moved the site from staging to the live domain, ran a database search-replace for the old host, and most links updated - but some images 404, a widget points at the old URL, and a page-builder block still loads from staging. The replace didn't fail. It reached one kind of data and silently skipped two others.

You finished the site, applied to an ad network, and nothing serves. Often the block isn't your content or your traffic - it's a missing text file at your domain root that the network uses to confirm the ad space is really yours to sell.