You may have come across an issue with your WordPress site. Maybe it is not performing at the level it was once before. You may have done some research into the best troubleshooting steps, and one of the top troubleshooting methods is to clear the cache on your WordPress site.
But what is cache? You may have heard or seen the word before, but you are not familiar with what caching is or how clear the cache on your WordPress site works. Here at 2025.hosting-australia.com/ we are determined that your site is running at peak performance. So, here is the rundown on how and why to clear your WordPress cache.
You may have come across a site; it may have taken a too long to load or had been inconsistent. Therefore, site speed plays a huge role in a website’s performance. These slow speeds also affect search engine optimization (SEO).
Each time a user visits your website, the server must load all the various files that make up the web page they have visited. This also includes CSS, image files, text, videos, even WooCommerce. The more you have on your page, the longer it will take to load.
If you have WordPress caching set up, after loading your web page once, your server will remember what it looked like the next time someone visits. Instead of having to load each file all over again separately, it can more quickly load the webpage.
There is caching on multiple levels, now let us take a look at the different levels of caching.
Sever cache is a type of cache that is related to site caching, except instead of temporarily saving content on the client side, it is stored on a site’s server. Sever caching is also fully handled and administered on the server without any involvement of the end user, or browser.
A browser cache is a kind of client-side cache, which means it is also a type of site caching. It works in the same way and it is a cache system that is built into a browser.
Files and content that are saved are stored on your computer are grouped with other files associated with the browser you use.
A browser cache temporarily saves content such as:
There is not one WordPress cache to clear. Based on the apps and plugin you use, clearing your cache can mean several different things.
with the browser you use.
A browser cache temporarily saves content such as:
How to Clear your Cache.
There is not one WordPress cache to clear. Based on the apps and plugin you use, clearing your cache can mean several different things.
Any WordPress caching plugins you use should provide an easy way to clear your cache. Its as simple as install the plugin and the plugin will do the rest.
WP Super cache generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated, your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.
W3 Total Cache improves the SEO and user experience of your site by increasing website performance and reducing load times by leveraging features like content delivery network CDN integration and the latest best practices.
Making sure your Website is performance is the best it can be!
Knowing how to clear the various caches in the different services and applications is a useful tip for any time you need to do some troubleshooting with your website. That is why Enabling caching on an ongoing basis in these different applications and places is a good way to keep the performance of your WordPress website up to the standards your users expect and deserve.
TeamViewer is remote access and remote-control software, this allows our support team to connect to your device from a remote device. This is such a powerful tool as it allows us to remove the communication complications and see directly what the issues are fixing any issues on the fly while syncing information with our server.
TeamViewer is such a powerful tool with 400,000 downloads daily, 2.5+ billion devices connected. So, for the best possible service and smooth experience, it is best to have TeamViewer preinstall on your computer and ready to go for the next time you need any assistance from 2025.hosting-australia.com/.
Recently you will have received an email from 2025.hosting-australia.com/ RE: Are your AU domain details current? Just like registering your car. you need to make sure your personal details are correct this way, the registration can be traced back to you. This is the exact same for your domain name, you want to make sure that your business name can be traced back to you just in case the inevitable happens.
A domain name registrar is a business that handles the reservation of domain names as well as the assignment of IP addresses for those domain names. 2025.hosting-australia.com/ currently uses two domain registrars, Synergy and Dreamscape, for the registration of your domain names.
When you registrar your domain name with the registrar, your details will be applied to the domain name allowing your or their details to become the registrant. If your domain name expires you may need to provide the registrant details to prove you were the previous owner of the domain name. This is why it is important not to let your domain name expire, you can view how to stop this here!.
These are a simple site that allows you to easily search your domain name, displaying Registrant/Tech contact details. Nameservers and the Raw Whois Data. This is the easiest and most preferred method for searching domains.
Resellers are another type of organization that sell domain names registrations. These resellers sell domain names on behalf of a registrar in return for a finder’s fee. You can registrar as a reseller with 2025.hosting-australia.com/. If you are interested in starting a reseller business, you can view our reseller plans here.
Everyone who registers a domain name must fill out WHOIS information for that domain. As previously stated, before this is how the domain name can be tracked back to you. This will include information such as name, email, address, phone number, ABN.
Many registrars provide the option of a private registration. In this arrangement, the registrar’s information is provided in the WHOIS listing for that domain, and the registrar acts as a proxy for the registrant.
Hopefully, you have now realized how important it is to have your domain details up to date. If you have received our recent email but have not acted or are unsure of how to correct these details. Please reply to the email or contact support.
WordPress shortcodes are an incredibly useful way to customize your site and add new features. Without having to learn any code and code yourself. If you have installed any plugins or made any adjustment to your WordPress site, you have probably come across the term “shortcode”.
To put it simply, a shortcode is a small piece of code, indicated by brackets like [this], that performs a dedicated function on your site. This shortcode can placed about anywhere you would like, and it will add a specific feature to your page, post, or other content. For example, a shortcode can be used to display galleries, payment portals, or videos.
If you are still not completely sure what shortcodes are and how and why they are used within WordPress, Let's take a deep dive into more of the basics, show some examples, and plugins that you can use to expand your shortcode.
Most existing themes and plugins are equipped with their own shortcodes that allow you to tap into additional features or display certain plugins across your site.
Therefore, WordPress is such a power web designing tool. Since it is an open-source platform, it allows you to customize it in any way you would like. But as mentioned previously if you are not a developer and have no coding experience, adding code yourself is not really feasible. Therefore, shortcodes have been developed so you can achieve the same effect, without needing to know any coding.
Shortcodes can be used on any location in your WordPress post or page. That includes widget-ready areas like sidebars, headers, and footers, as well as in the main content.
So, now you have the basics down of what shortcodes are, how do you add them to your WordPress? But first let us see what shortcodes are incorporated into the WordPress:
To implement any of the above, you will need to go to the Default Editor within WordPress to add shortcodes:
Sometimes you may wish to use the text which usually represents a shortcode in your posts. To do this, you need to escape the shortcode by using two sets of brackets instead of just one. So to display this in your post:
[audio]You would write this:
[[audio]]For shortcodes that have a start and end tag, you only need to scape the very first and very last brackets:
[[audio]] . . . [/audio]]If you are looking to add more shortcode functionality to you site, then using a WordPress shortcode plugin will be your best bet.
Shortcodes Ultimate is a free plugin for users who want a lot of options and each one easily available with the following features:
WP Shortcode by Mythemeshop is a lightweight and easy to use shortcode plugin. This plugin will allow you to add functions like:
Shortcoder lets WordPress you generate custom shortcodes that contain HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Paste in your code, assign and recognizable name to your new shortcode, then place it anywhere on a page or post. Shortcoder also includes the following features:
Shortcodes are one of the most effective ways to customize your site without know how to code. Without the ability to shortcode you would have to take the time out of your day learning how to code as the original theme would be a nightmare to customize without them.
Here at 2025.hosting-australia.com/ we understand that your time is important. But, taking time to understand how effective features like shortcodes are to help grow your business.
If you have any issues or queries, about shortcodes please contact 2025.hosting-australia.com/ support here!
We have all come across them before, and will they annoyed you from time to time, trying to type in the displayed letters and number or finding that third photo of a fire hydrant that looks like a street sign. But, as annoying as these may be! They are there for a reason. These annoying but very important security checks are called a reCAPTCHA test. These are a necessary evil as they are a security system designed to tell humans and computers apart by making the user solve or insert a short series of letters in a box.
You may be unsure whether you require to have one installed on your website. But, no matter how big or small your site is, It is important to have these reCAPTCHA’s on your form early on to prevent any future security risks.
reCAPTCHA is a free service provided by Google that protects your site from malicious attacks and stops your forms from sending spam emails or making transactions via your store with fraudulent details. Without the installation of the one, your client may start receiving a large number of spam emails with inappropriate subjects. This will also cause issues with the bandwidth of your hosting as the increase of bandwidth may take you over your quota and shut down your site. If you do run into this issue, please contact support. reCAPTCHA will stop this issue as the bots installed by hackers on your form pages are unable to complete the form due to the puzzles created. which is why it is the tried-and-true way to stop this problem.
As time goes on hackers work out ways to bypass google's security. Luckily, Google Developers are always on top of updating the reCAPTCHA version to prevent any issues. Different versions allow you to choose which kind of security puzzle is required to be complete.
When Invisible reCAPTCHA is used, the user will not see any extra field within your form (no checkbox). A small badge is added to the lower right corner of the screen that links to Google’s terms of service and privacy policy.
Much like Invisible reCAPTCHA, in v3 reCAPTCHA the user will only see a small badge in the lower right corner of the screen that links to Google’s terms of service and privacy policy. However, v3 reCAPTCHA will never display a captcha like the image question shown above. Instead, it runs completely in the background.
Hopefully, this article has piqued your interest and help educate explain how the it is a must.
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With these two working entwine and communicating, is what makes everything with everyone possible on the internet. Now we could bore you will all the ins and out’s including primary and foreign keys, SQL commands and ERD diagrams. Because we have barely scratched the surface with these systems. It is important to have a basic understanding of how these systems work and at 2025.hosting-australia.com/ we want our customers to understand how everything communicates.
If you have your website files only saved on your computer, users can access them as long as the computer is switched on. When the computer is switched off, the link between your files and your website will be lost and users would not be able to access anything.
This is where servers come into the picture. A server is just like a big computer with faster power, more space and more speed.
Unlike a personal computer, the server is kept running all the time. This allows users to access web files on the server and be displayed through a web browser.
This allows everything saved on the server to be accessible, 24 hours, 7days a week, 365 days a year.
Since uptime is critically important for your website, we want to make sure your website is always online when hosted with 2025.hosting-australia.com/.
Our servers are not designed to shut down, they are running 24/7.
Servers will sometimes be shut down for scheduled maintenance.
2025.hosting-australia.com/ will send out an email when scheduled maintenance is required, and we endeavour to complete this during downtimes for website traffic – ie nightworks.
There is a wide range of servers, all have their own purposes, while some dedicated servers focus on one function, such as a print server or database server, some implementations use one server for multiple purposes.
A web server shows pages and runs apps through web browsers. The server your browser is connected to now is a web server that delivers this page and the images on it. 2025.hosting-australia.com/ has servers based in Sydney, this ensures that we have extremely fast speeds when connecting to users within Australia and we have direct contact with all our technicians. These servers connect directly to your browsers like Microsoft Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Ecosia, or Safari. The 2025.hosting-australia.com/ web servers are used for many tasks in addition to delivering simple text and images, such as uploading and backing up files online through your cPanel web hosting control panel.
Email Servers send and receive email messages. If you have an email client on your computer, the software connects to an IMAP or POP servers. This is also like connecting to the webserver as your emails will be stored within the cPanel web hosting control. As well as offering cPanel email hosting there are Microsoft exchange servers, these are stored on a mail server that runs exclusively on a Windows Server operating system. The email client connects to an IMAP, POP, Microsoft exchange server to download your messages to your computer, and an SMTP server to send messages back through the email server.
FTP servers move files through File Transfer Protocol tools. FTP servers are accessible remotely using FTP client programs such as FileZilla, Programs such as FileZilla connect to the file share on the server, either through the server’s built-in FTP capabilities or with a dedicated FTP server program. You are also able to use your cPanel’s built-in FTP capabilities within your web hosting with hosting-australia.com.au.
When you type a URL into a browser, for example, 2025.hosting-australia.com/, there needs to be some way to connect that URL with the underlying web server that powers the website at that domain name.
As explained in our previous blog article Understanding DNS Records, if you had to type and remember the actual IP addresses of the website’s you wish to visit each time. It would be impossible to remember all the different addresses.
Nameservers play an important role in connecting a URL with a server in a more functional way.
Nameservers look similar to any other domain name. when you view a website’s nameservers, you will typically see a minimum of two nameservers. Here is an example of the 2025.hosting-australia.com/ nameservers:
These nameservers help direct traffic to the 2025.hosting-australia.com/ servers.
Let us take a bit more of a deep dive into how exactly it all works.
When you visit 2025.hosting-australia.com/, it is a simple as opening your web browser and typing 2025.hosting-australia.com/ into the browser’s address bar and the homepage will be displayed.
Its that simple, but this is because we cannot see what is going on behind the scenes between the device and all the networks.
The process goes like this:
2025.hosting-australia.com/ is entered into the browser address bar.
The browser sends a request to the domain’s nameserver.
The nameserver responds back with the IP address of the website’s server.
Browser requests the website content from the IP address
Browser retrieves the content and renders it in your browser.
There are multiple ways to find out what your nameservers are. You may need to change your them to point to a different address or you are prompted to find out what they are by a developer.
The most common way to find these details is by checking online tools such as whois.com.
This site allows you to search a domain name and the domain information displayed, such as the nameservers.
You are also able to find out nameservers through your Command Prompt.
Nameservers play such an essential role in directing traffic on the internet by helping to connect your domain name with the IP address of your web server.
If you ever need to change your nameserver you can also follow this help knowledge base article created by the 2025.hosting-australia.com/ support team HERE!
An IP address is assigned to every computer on an Ethernet Network. Like the numbers in a phone book, an IP address identifies network computers. It helps traffic flow between computers/servers because each one has its own IP address.
A dynamic IP address is exactly how it sounds, dynamic IP addresses are subject to change, sometimes at a moment’s notice. Dynamic addresses are assigned, as needed by Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) servers.
Dynamic IP addresses are generally implemented by internet service providers and networks that have many connecting clients or end-nodes. One of the primary reasons behind having dynamic IP addresses is the shortage of static IP address on IPV4. Dynamic IP addresses allow a single IP address to be shuffled between many different nodes to circumvent this problem.
Static IP address, or fixed IP address, is an IP address that never changes. Once your device is assigned a static IP address, that number typically stays the same until your router/modem is reset to filter a new IP address.
Static IP addresses are assigned by Internet Service Providers. Your ISP may or may not allocate you a static IP address depending on the nature of your service agreement.
This may have piqued your curiosity, which type of IP address do you have? This is always helpful to know so, to find out follow these steps below:
2. Type cmd into the search box.
3. Type into the Command Prompt window, ipconfig /all then press Enter.
4. Once the command is executed, scroll down, and locate the DHCP Enabled Line
There are many ways to help protect your website and data with the inclusion of a wide range of plugins and preventative measures. If you missed our latest article on the top 5 WordPress plugins you can check it out here!
One of these ways is by the use of words Modsec or ModSecurity, so what exactly is ModSecurity and how can it benefit your everyday life to help keep your website safe.
ModSecurity also commonly known as mod_security or modsec is an open-source web application firewall which is an Apache module.
Let us find out what exactly a web application firewall is.
Web Application Firewall is a specific form of application firewall that filters, monitors, and blocks HTTP traffic to and from a web service. By inspecting HTTP traffic, it can prevent attacks exploiting a web application’s know vulnerabilities.
