Are your website’s emails unreliable? Are transactional emails sometimes received, sometimes not, and other times only make it to the recipient’s spam folder? All these outcomes are possible with the way WordPress sends email natively. However, regular consistent email deliverability can be achieved if you switch to SMTP email on your WordPress website.
Today’s blog entry is a history lesson without any practical application to WordPress today. We discuss the WordPress origin story, which took place over two decades ago. If our story had taken place in the distant past, a myth could have evolved around WordPress’ invention, something to entertain the public and obfuscate the idea that inventions rarely result from a lone genius’s “Eureka!” moment.
Symptom: The homepage of your website loads perfectly, but every other page you’ve created — every blog post and individual page — produces a “Page not found” message (technically called a 404 not found error message, the most famous of all the error messages produced by a web browser).
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Installing software on your computer or an app on your phone is a pretty simple process. You run a file or click a button on your screen and then a couple of minutes later your device possesses a new skill.
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Installing software on your computer or an app on your phone is a pretty simple process. You run a file or click a button on your screen and then a couple of minutes later your device possesses a new skill. WordPress has a “one-click” installation process that’s supposed to be just as simple and easy, but what happens if it fails? In that case, a manual installation of the platform may be necessary. Don’t worry, it’s not as complicated as you think it’s going to be, and for a website owner it is a great foundational skill to possess.
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A cron job is a scheduled, automated task that runs in the background on an operating system like MacOS or a platform like WordPress. It is simply a list of commands (what to run) and their schedules (when to run). Cron jobs are ideal for recurring administrative tasks like performing backups, sending emails, or executing scripts.
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