Stop OpenAI’s ChatGPT User agent from scanning and using your website’s content.

Background: Wikipedia Describes ChatGPT as an AI chatbot developed by OpenAI. ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by OpenAI and launched in November 2022. It is built on top of OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 families of large language models (LLMs) and has been fine-tuned (an approach to transfer learning) using both supervised and …

Resolve Cloudflare’s ‘Invalid Domain’ error while adding a new site.

Background: Cloudflare is a good web service that provides CDN, Caching, HTML – JavaScript – CSS Minifying and security from DDOS attacks free of cost. However, you must add your domain to Cloudflare to use this service. Interaction is simple. At your dashboard’s top navigation bar, there is a prominent button called ‘Add Site’. It …

Stop email notifications for WordPress Theme and Plugin Updates.

With the WordPress 5.5 release, you may have experienced new random daily emails you may have received for every WordPress self-hosted theme and plugin update. Here is how to stop email notifications for theme and plugin updates: Copy the code below in your domain theme’s functions.php file… It will look something like this…

Cloudflare Flexible SSL Certificate Implementation Guide for WordPress Website.

Prerequisite:Please ensure you have an active CloudFlare account and have added your WordPress Website to CloudFlare. Also, make sure you are using CloudFlare nameservers for your domain. Step 01:Sign in to your CloudFlare account Step 02:Make sure a flexible SSL certificate is enabled under the “Crypto” tab for your selected website Step 03:While signing in …

The complete guide for maintaining and optimising WordPress websites for optimum performance.

Introduction I have been using WordPress for almost more than five years now. In the post below, I will explain the step-by-step procedure for hardening, securing, and optimising WordPress for best performance and security. So, First things first, Introduction to WordPress What is WordPress? WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) based …

Leverage browser caching for improved webpage load time performance & speed.

Introduction: To enable browser caching, you need to set expiry dates on certain files. Find your .htaccess file in the root of your domain. You can edit the .htaccess file with Notepad or any text editor. In this file, we will set our caching parameters to tell the browser what types of files to cache …

Fix the WordPress.com Jetpack error: ‘Website needs to be publicly accessible to use Jetpack.’

As we know, the WordPress community exist on wordpress.com & wordpress.org WordPress.org is a downloadable CMS (Content Management System) distribution for self-hosting used by web designers and developers. Being a CMS lead developer, Automattic wants its wordpress.com experience to be available to its wordpress.org users. So, they developed plugins like JetPack for WordPress self-hosted websites. …

Using the Sticky Navigation Bar to increase the page views per visit (session) ratio for any website.

It is a well-known, tried-and-tested method to have a sticky navigation bar at the top of a responsive website design and layout. A fixed navigation bar at the top helps mobile or desktop website users have a fixed area where they can find navigation icons and links through which they can browse and navigate the …

How to fix WordPress Automatic Update Error.

Background: When WordPress.Org releases a new update to its WordPress standalone CMS (Content Management System), you may have set your website to get your installation updated automatically, or you may like to do it yourself at your preferred time. But because of server load on the part of your web host, you may get an …

What do CTR (click-through rate), CPC (cost per click), and RPM (page revenue per thousand impressions) mean in online advertising?

In today’s online advertising age, as an online publisher or advertiser, you will always come across jargon or terms like CTR, CPC, and page RPM. All the terms mentioned above help you understand the metrics you want to know before you can finalise & execute ‘Online Advertising’ campaigns. It also allows advertisers to make sound …