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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 website’s file system, to give permission for Google to access the data from your website in relation to how people browse and journey through the site. Analytics is a very detailed tool that can show a ...

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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 get the correct website and send that back to your computer so it can be displayed to you. This process will keep happening each time you visit a new page or a new site. The request is data and HTTP...

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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 website and files while domain hosting is specifically for your domain name. They are often the same but can be two separate services. We are going to talk about web hosting specifically, what types ...

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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 to happier users, happier search engine benchmarks and ultimately improved sales. Complex sites and speed Modern websites are built to be dynamic. Instead of a static site that is fixed and...

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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 downloaded, the content that goes with it, videos and anything else developers and designers work into the mix. Some of the most important things anyone has to consider with web hosting is the cost to ...

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Integrations & 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 WordPress API as a content management system, but I’m here to show you that the platform can be used for web application development too! Using applications is not uncommon for businesses, so with WordP...

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