Access controls mean my website runs as a user that can’t create a directory that is writable by the server; here’s how I fixed it with reference to Updraftplus plugin for Wordpress. This fix should work generally.

This is something I’ve been seeing a lot recently so I checked with the docs before claiming to know the canonical position. Adding a trailing slash to domain addresses If you’re linking to the example.com domain, what do you put in your link anchors href? You should put href=”http://www.example.com/” and not href=”http://www.example.com“. Why?

I hate that .. when organisations (the biggest offenders I see appear to be the .gov.uk sites) don’t do their redirects properly. I always just type the root domain, example.com. But for sites that I manage I choose “www.example.com” to be canonical – mainly because in print it’s best to use the www. address as […]