You will need to display a privacy policy on your website to let users know if you collect any information from them and how this is used. How to create a privacy policy A privacy policy is a page on your website that outlines how you are collecting users’ information, what information you are collecting
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Website cookies track visitors to your website and can be helpful for analysing behaviour or customising experiences on your site. However, people have a legal right to understand when you’re collecting their data. You can set this up on your site by adding a cookie consent banner. How to create a cookie consent banner You
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What are website cookies? Cookies are a key technology when it comes to tracking users and they are essential to the way targeted advertisement works. This short animation by The Guardian gives an overview of what cookies are and how they work: You can find more information on how cookies and similar technologies work in
You don’t really need to know any of the languages of the web to create an amazing website. However, it’s helpful to know what’s going on in the background as you create a space online. This will empower you as you understand why things may or may not appear as you’d expect or perhaps inspire
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When adding posts and pages to your site, you can do so much more than simply adding text. WordPress comes with a powerful block-based editor called Gutenberg which gives you the ability to add rich media to your posts and pages with an easy drag-and-drop interface. There are far too many features to cover in
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With WordPress, it’s easy to change the entire look and feel of your site in just a few clicks – without changing any of the page or post content you’ve created. Your site’s theme dictates things like colours, typography, layout, animations and more. The WordPress Customizer allows you to change some of these settings individually,
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Your WordPress installation will work absolutely fine with the default settings as they are, but if you want to change your homepage, choose whether someone can comment on your posts, or tweak the default URL for your posts, you can find all these options in WordPress settings. It’s recommended you watch the video to get
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Once you start to fill up your site with pages and posts, things can start to look cluttered. Categories, tags and menus can help group some ideas, separate others and help users navigate to where they need to go. Categories are broad sections you can use to group posts together. For a sports website, categories
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We’ll now take a look at how you add posts and pages to your WordPress website. In WordPress, you’re able to add different types of content to your site as either a post or a page, depending on what goal you have in mind. Posts are periodical pieces of content such as blog posts, news
It’s easy to get up started with your first WordPress installation. This post includes video tutorials and a step-by-step guide to get you up and running with your first website.
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