A Clear Guide to WordPress Default htaccess File

If you run a website on WordPress, the hidden file named htaccess in your root directory is quietly doing a lot of heavy lifting. Think of it as the central configuration file that controls how server requests are handled, how URLs are rewritten, and how security and performance rules are applied. On servers running Apache, htaccess governs several important behaviors: rewriting URLs so your posts appear under clean, readable permalinks, redirecting old links to new ones, enabling compression and caching, and restricting access to sensitive files.

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