WordPress installation is simple and quick, but we often miss out a few important security factors. For example, directory browsing and using the ‘admin’ username are considered serious security loopholes. Today we’re going to take a look at 8 .htaccess code snippets which will help improve your WordPress blog’s security. What is the .htaccess file? A .htaccess (hypertext access) file is a directory-level configuration file supported by several web servers, that allows for decentralized management of web server configuration. They are placed inside...
If you have a website, I’m sure you’ve put a lot of hard work and long hours into making it a valuable resource for your visitors. What if your links aren’t working? Have you found a link (or more) on your WordPress website that leads to the infamous “404” error? Try not to panic. This is actually very common – you’ve simply discovered a link that isn’t going where it’s supposed to. Broken links – otherwise known as “dead” links –...
A WordPress theme is a collection of template files which lets you change the user interface, design, look, and feel of the site. A WordPress theme can either just have some bare minimum design changes implemented or might even have some advanced logic showing the most recent post differently than the others or showing the posts from a particular category in a different section on the home page etc. WordPress themes can range from a simple set of files...
When it comes to managing your own WordPress install, sooner or later you’ll almost certainly need to directly access the files on your server — for which you’ll most likely want to use some kind of FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client. What’s an FTP client? Basically, it’s a relatively small and simple piece of software that allows you to view, edit, download, and upload files located or stored elsewhere on the internet (i.e. on a server — which can be...
Nowadays, there are already a large number of wordpress themes on the Internet, so choosing a good theme in them become a difficult task. This article lays out some technical approaches to understanding how well-built a theme is—and how closely you’ll be able to customize it to your needs—before you buy it. Armed with these, as well as with more general theme shopping strategies, you should have a lot of the tools you’ll need to make your theme purchase the right...
WordPress powers more than 17% of the web — a figure that rises every day. Everything from simple websites, to blogs, to complex portals and enterprise websites, and even applications, are built with WordPress. WordPress combines simplicity for users and publishers with under-the-hood complexity for developers. This makes it flexible while still being easy-to-use. Installing a basic copy of WordPress is not hard, but if you are looking for more stability, traffics, search engine optimization, etc, here’s few of my recommendation...
A child theme is a theme that inherits the functionality and styling of another theme, called the parent theme. Child theme are the recommended way of modifying an existing wordpress theme. Why use a Child Theme? There are a few reasons why you would want to use a child theme: If you modify a wordpress theme directly and it is updated, then your modifications may be lost. By using a child theme you will ensure that your modifications are preserved. Using...
Google is now also factoring in site speed in its ranking algorithm so a faster site could in fact mean better visibility across the web. So let us speed up our WordPress Website as soon as possible, it will decrease your WordPress website’s page load time dramatically, increase conversions and improve your SEO rankings by implementing the simple steps below. 1.Optimize images (automatically) Yahoo! has an image optimizer called Smush.it that will drastically reduce the file size of an image, while not...
WordPress is the most popular Blog nowadays. We like its powerful functions and abundant themes. Due to powerful functions, wordpress is more and more complicated operation for beginners. So, we’d like to introduce some basic knowledge below.
