Two days ago, WordPress 3.1.1 has been released. This is a maintenance and security release that fixes almost thirty issues from the 3.1 version.
Whether you have already upgraded to WordPress 3.1 or not, this is the best time to download and update to the latest version of WordPress 3.1.1, or you can automatically update via your WordPress admin panel. Continue Reading »
This simple tutorial shows you the easiest and the most convenient way to find the ID of your tags, pages, posts, links and Categories in WordPress without the need of a plugin. Prior to WordPress 2.5 these IDs were listed as an additional column in your administration panel. However; this is not the case anymore with the newer versions of WordPress. Continue Reading »
For a WordPress blog, a Tag cloud displays a list of tags. Tags are usually single words, and the importance of each Tag is shown with different font size. The size of each Tag is determined by how many times that particular Tag has been assigned to posts. Tags are links that lead to a list of posts associated with each Tag. Continue Reading »
In this tutorial I will show you a 2 step process for a full backup of your WordPress Website. This is an important task as discussed in Tip3 of my previous tutorial about WordPress Security. This tutorial mainly focuses on manual backups of self-hosted WordPress Websites.
Why Backups are important? Because you cannot depend on your Web host to keep a current backup of your Website. Continue Reading »
In this tutorial I will show you a step by step process how to change the default WordPress database table name prefix long after your WordPress Website has been online. This is known as "security through obscurity", in which by no means is, on its own, enough to secure your WordPress Website, but it is a one piece of an overall security strategy, as I discussed in my previous tutorial. Continue Reading »
Securing your WordPress Website is critical in growing your online presence. As your Website becomes more popular it becomes more attractive for Crackers. Keeping WordPress Website secure is not something many administrators take seriously.
WordPress security starts by using a reputable hosting company. If by default, your server´s setup is not secure, then no added security measures is going to keep Crackers, Spammers, Black hat Hackers, and Script Kiddies out. Continue Reading »
The tips in this post are specific to WordPress. Before tackling the tips here, I advice you to implement as many related tips from my previous post. The previous post constitutes the foundation for this tutorial.
It is obvious, everyone hates a slow Website. Performance is a key factor for any successful Website including WordPress. Continue Reading »
Did you know!
- You can significantly speed up a dynamic Website´s load time with caching.
- For a static Website, browsers cache the content on the client´s computer, in memory and on disk. Wikipedia…
Web caching is caching of Web documents to improve performance, reduce bandwidth consumption and server load. Web cache stores copies of documents passing through it; subsequent requests may be satisfied from the cache if certain conditions are met. Continue Reading »
