Adding a New Domain Name
Bought your own personalised domain name and want to map it to your Coventry.Domains hosting? Then this is the post for you!
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Securing your site with SSL
An SSL certificate is a way to show users of your site that you’ve taken steps to make sure their personal information is safe. Increasingly, visitors are becoming reluctant to visit websites without them because of warnings from their browsers that a site may be unsafe. Fortunately, setting up your Coventry Domains site with an
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Sourcing Media (the Right Way)
It’s easy to right click on an image out there on the web and select “save as”, but posting this image to your website could constitute a copyright violation. Photos, video, music, written content and more are classed as intellectual property, and you usually need permission to use them on your site. Fortunately, the internet
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Creating a Privacy Policy
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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Getting Consent for Cookies
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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Website Cookies
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
Editing with Gutenberg
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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Themes and Customisation
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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WordPress Settings
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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Categories, Tags and Menus
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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