Insights

Agency Knowledge Base.

We love sharing WordPress knowledge and insight at Illustrate Digital, so we’ve compiled a list of common industry questions asked by clients and friends.

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Servers, Domains & URLs.

What is Google Analytics?

Google Analytics, simply put, is a tool that sits independently of your website that allows you to analyse your website data and more. It works by using a tracking code, installed in your websit...

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SSL and HTTPS

What is SSL and HTTPS?

In order to view a website your computer has to send a request through the internet where a web server receives that request via a series of other servers and computers, processes that request to g...

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Managed WordPress Hosting

What is managed hosting?

If you want a website online, you need hosting. Hosting is a generic term that covers any service that looks after your website files or domain name. Specifically web hosting is for hosting your we...

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Website Caching Explained

What is caching?

Caching is a specific tool used to improve the performance of a site. One important aspect of improved performance is quicker loading times - the holy grail of websites! Quicker site loading leads ...

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CDN - Content Delivery Network

What is a CDN?

Modern websites are very complex and are made up of various components. There is the code that makes a website work, the static assets such as images, stylesheets and Javascript files that are down...

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Integrations & Applications.

Benefits of Bespoke Integrations and APIs

The Benefits of Bespoke APIs and Integrations

APIs and integrations make the internet tick. Without them, communication between websites and different parties would be a lot more time-consuming and difficult. If you have a website that need...

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Using WordPress for Web Applications

How and why you should use WordPress to develop a Web Application

The WordPress API can be used in many ways. Here, one of our WordPress developers Nathan breaks down how to use the platform as part of web application development. Most people solely see the Wo...

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