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How to automatically set File System Permissions for a WordPress Web Server with a BASH Script

WordPress - WP Post Views Counter plugin - import data from Yuzo Related Posts How to import the view count data of each existing post from Yuzo Related Posts to WP Post Views Counter WordPress Plugin

November 18, 2018October 19, 2020 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Today a friend asked me to uninstall the Yuzo Related Post plugin from her WordPress blog because she want to switch to the Jetpack built-in "related posts" feature. She could …

Top Instagram-friendly Wordpress Themes for 2018

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Blog2Social - A Great Social Media Auto-Share, Auto-Post & Scheduler WordPress Plugin Introducing Blog2Social by Adenion, arguably the best Social Media Auto Sharing, Posting & Scheduler WordPress Plugin available today

August 29, 2018August 29, 2018 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Among the many great features you get from using WordPress is the Publicize feature, which allows you to automatically share your posts to your own social channels: actually, this has …

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WordPress - Error establishing a database connection repeatedly and intermittently (MySQL / MariaDB) - Fix What to do if you're randomly and repeatedly getting the "Error establishing a database connection" with your WordPress installation using MySQL or MariaDB

August 12, 2018August 12, 2018 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

The "Error establishing a database connection" WordPress error is a rather common one. You can either get it upon each request, meaning that you WordPress site is entirely down, or intermittently (randomly …

Wordpress - How to Fix Home Page Caching Issues by setting the Last-Modified response Header to the most recent post

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Best WordPress Plugins to Compress Images, JS and CSS An updated list of compression-bases plugins that will make your WordPress website load quicker

August 6, 2018 - by Karishma Nimavat - Leave a Comment

Maintaining a WordPress website is a tough task in itself let apart the confusion of choosing which plug-ins to use for a hassle free and optimum experience. Since it was …

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WordPress - How to Escape & Strip HTML tags from the Post Title A tutorial explaining how to properly use the get_the_title() and the_title_attribute() WordPress functions to properly format the Post Entry Title

July 31, 2018July 31, 2018 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Today I received an e-mail from Richard of Comparitech (thank you Richard, by the way!) telling me that there was an odd issue with our blog's social sharing feature. I …

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Top Instagram-friendly WordPress Themes for 2018 An updated list containing some of the top Instagram-Friendly WordPress Themes available on the market in 2018

July 8, 2018 - by Walter Moore - Leave a Comment

Instagram has become a raging success in the social media landscape. Thanks to its phenomenal success, the actual popularity of a celeb is evaluated these days by looking at the …

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GDPR Compliance Tools For WordPress with WP GDPR Plugin How to make a WordPress based website compliant with the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2016/679

June 25, 2018July 27, 2018 - by Graeme Caldwell - Leave a Comment

If your email inbox looks anything like mine, you can’t have failed to notice that the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force on May 25. We discussed …

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How to purge Nginx Proxy Cache in Linux CentOS A list of useful methods provided by Nginx when used as a Reverse Proxy with caching features to selectively and/or globally invalidate its cache

March 25, 2018November 5, 2018 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

We already made a number of tutorials about Nginx, one of best web servers available for Linux - which can also be used as a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTP …

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Nginx Reverse Proxy Cache for WordPress How to fine-tune Nginx used as a Reverse Proxy Cache server for a typical WordPress web site

March 24, 2018November 5, 2018 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Some weeks ago we published a tutorial instructing how to use Nginx as a Reverse Proxy with buffering & cache functions using the standard edge-origin pattern. The configuration settings shown within …

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WordPress - How to hide a Category from Front page, Archives, Feeds, Searches and Category Widget A great plugin to exclude a category from your WordPress Web Site... and a neat PHP script to deal with the Category Widget as well

March 13, 2018March 13, 2018 - by Ryan - 2 Comments.

When dealing with a WordPress Web Site you might want to hide or exclude one or more Categories without actually deleting them: in other words, to prevent them from being …