When moving a database-driven content management system (CMS) to a new server environment, hard-coded addressing can cause issues with broken links and missing images. To avoid these issues, one solution is to export the CMS’s database to a text file and use a search and replace tool to modify any hard-coded addressing. This approach allows you to easily modify the hard-coded addressing without specialized database software or knowledge. However, it’s important to be careful when making modifications to the database and to thoroughly test the CMS after making any changes.
Content Management
My thoughts on Elegant Theme’s Divi Theme and the Elementor Plugin
When it comes to managing website content on WordPress, there are many tools available to help make the process easier and more efficient. Two of the most popular and powerful tools are Elegant Theme's Divi theme and the Elementor plugin. In this article, we'll take a...
Speed Up Your Website’s Page Loading using Redis
I intend to focus this article on yet another way of speeding up your website's page loading time. My focus here will be hooking up Redis to speed page loading in complex websites. Over the years I've noticed that website pages have become more complex to meet the...
DirectAdmin Upgrade from MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8.0 breaks Installatron
Installatron is a great server product. We have been using it since May of 2016 on a number of our website servers. Installatron is very cost effective and interfaces directly with DirectAdmin. It allows CharlesWorks staff to quickly set up websites on our servers for...
Fixing Website Page Not Found (404 Errors) Using Redirection
In the course of managing Search Engine Optimization (SEO) in one or more websites, you or your web clients most probably have seen an email from Google containing something along the lines of what looks like what is shown here. What is a 404 Error? The infamous 404...
Best Practices for Mitigating Website Hacks
We at CharlesWorks are often asked by our web clients if their site is protected from malware and getting hacked. They also want to know if there site IS hacked, whether there be a charge to fix it. The totally hack-proof website The totally hack proof website has no...
How to Override the WordPress default 45 tag cloud limit
If you have a WordPress website with many tags, you have undoubtedly ran into a situation where you notice they are not always all displayed. This happened to me when adding a new tag and I noticed it was not displayed. Researching this on the Internet revealed a lot...
Basic WordPress Login Instructions
Everything manageable in a WordPress website happens in what is called the WordPress website's Dashboard. Whether managing content, changing or modifying, uploading graphics or photos, or just gaining access to view the site past an Under Construction page, one must...
Adding text into a Divi Builder page on your WordPress website.
If you need to edit text in a page in your Divi Builder WordPress site for your restaurant's menu, or your store's hours, etc., you might find that sometimes it doesn't look the same as other text on the page. You might be trying to copy from a word document or a...
Your Website’s Inaccessibility Issues Might Get You Sued
I started CharlesWorks in June of 1998. One of the reasons is because it was very expensive to get on the web back then. I hoped to change that and make it easier for small businesses and organizations to get on the web. On the Internet user side, I believe everyone...