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Siteground review 2016 : powerful features and highly secure environment

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Siteground hosting offers various plans that are suitable for deploying new or established websites. Like many other hosting platforms, SG claims to offer 99.9 percent uptime for your site. This is impressive because your blog will be hardly down. Thus your online earnings and revenue will not be impacted by unnecessary downtime. Once my high traffic site was down for 3 hours when it was hosted...

OnePress social locker plugin for WordPress review

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Content locker WordPress plugins are becoming popular these days. They are useful in increasing the Facebook likes Google plus one and twitter tweet counts. The plugin hides your content for visitors (not for search engines) and displays it only when the user shares your post on the pre-configured social networks. OnePress is the best content locker plugin for WordPress. It is available in free...

Best WordPress search plugins (2018)

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The default WordPress search module is useful, but not the best. No matter what keyword or term you search for, you’ll not be satisfied with the results generated by it. This module is critical because people use it to find relevant information on your site. It can also reduce the bounce rate. Although the WordPress content management system supports hierarchical pages (categories, tags...

Should you disable WordPress comments or not?

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People disable comments from their website thinking that spammers or hackers will not target their sites. Well, it’s true that this form is always responsible for spam, but you should never think of removing it. Spam can be easily avoided with Akismet or its alternatives. Comments are an important section of a website. Without it, your blog would look hostile and naked. No one would...

This is the best WordPress popular posts plugin for blogs

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Displaying popular posts in blog sidebar is useful in many ways. As your top articles are posted, the link juice aka page rank will transfer to them which in turn will help your posts rank higher in search engines like Google, Bing, etc. Adding a widget for the same is a good way of strengthening the internal link structure of your website. If your top posts have affiliate links, displaying them...

WP-FFPC settings and features: Powerful caching plugin

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Although W3TC has options to configure Memcache and OPCache modules, this plugin requires some configuration to work according to your expectations. It includes many features that you may not want to use. To be honest, W3TC and WPSC are best plugins for Shared hosting users as users can easily make their site faster by activating disk caching, minification or by setting an expiry date for static...

Sumome plugin for WordPress : free list builder social sharing and more

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Suomeme is an awesome all in one plugin for promoting blog posts. It has a powerful sharing button that not only looks great but also allows users to share posts on top social networks without adding a lot of weight on your pages. This plugin lets users add a floating bar in the header or footer area of your blog. Thus you can use it as an alternative to hellobar. Sharing images from your blog...

WPDiscuz plugin: Great Alternative to Disqus and WordPress comment system

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The default WordPress commenting system is good, but some people may want to replace it with a third party plugin like Disqus, Livefyre for better control, spam protection, and administration. Disqus adds a lot of weight to your site, and you should think before using it. I’ve seen LiveFyre plugin on high traffic websites, and it looks great. I’ve not tested it. In case you’re...

WPBakery review: best WordPress page builder

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If you have sound knowledge of PHP, CSS, JS, and HTML, you can quickly build good-looking pages in WordPress. It is also possible with a WPBakery page builder plugin for WordPress. WPBakery is a well-designed plugin that lets users create various types of website layouts and pages with CTA buttons. There are around 29 great designs to choose from. WPBakery is responsive, and your site designed...

Mythemeshop review 2018 : Amazing themes and plugins

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Buying a premium theme or plugin is not an easy task as there are a lot of WP developers who have launched a variety of templates for the users. To make things less complicated and easy for you, we are trying our level best to shared a detailed review on themes launched by top developers. Last month, we had shared a detailed and honest review on Elegant Divi and Themeforest NewsPaper. After going...

Yoast vs All in One SEO pack : The best WordPress plugin is…

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WordPress is an excellent content management system, but it has a lot of modules that may cause duplicate content problems and many other SEO related issues. Thus anyone using WordPress to power their websites should install an SEO plugin. An excellent plugin will have options to disable unnecessary WordPress features which in turn improves SEO score of your blog. It will take care of meta...

Conditionally load scripts in WordPress to boost speed

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Imagine you’ve installed a WordPress table plugin on your site. You have 1000 blog posts, and only 10 of them has a table. The Javascript and CSS files for the same will be inserted in the header section, and it will be called on all the pages even though you have not added a table. This increases the page size, and it can affect the page loading time. To solve this problem, you can either...

Disqus WordPress plugin : Pros, Cons, issues and fixes

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When a lot of users are commenting on your articles, you should make sure that the comments do not affect the load time of the page. If it is affecting posts load time, the user should enable pagination for the same by navigating to Settings—> discussions page or he must search for an alternative solution. One of my tech blog’ posts was having over 150 comments from visitors. The...

W3TC W3 Total Cache vs WP Super cache : the best plugin is…

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Caching is one of the most essential and advanced techniques for improving the performance of websites and reducing server resource usage. Sites using this technology are fast, and they yield pretty good results when tested with GTmetrix or Pingdom tools. WordPress has been the backbone of many powerful and established websites with 1000s of posts. To make their sites more powerful, the user...

Web Application Database Vulnerabilities to be Aware of

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This is post 8 of 8 in the series “Prevention and Protection Strategies” Intrusion Detection Honeypots: To Lure or Not To Lure Managing Access to Information Resources More on Limiting Damage to Information Assets Post Authentication Methods Usable Security? User Friendly Factors SQL Injection Explained Web Application Database Vulnerabilities to be Aware of The use of malicious code...

SQL Injection Explained

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This is post 7 of 8 in the series “Prevention and Protection Strategies” Intrusion Detection Honeypots: To Lure or Not To Lure Managing Access to Information Resources More on Limiting Damage to Information Assets Post Authentication Methods Usable Security? User Friendly Factors SQL Injection Explained Web Application Database Vulnerabilities to be Aware of SQL injection has been a...

Working tips to Reduce CPU Usage in WordPress shared hosting

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Shared hosting plans are relatively cheap as compared to VPS or dedicated hosting. This is because your site will be offered around 512MB RAM (or lower) and a CPU, which will be shared by many other websites. Sites that are growing at a very fast rate should always be hosted on VPS servers (use dedicated if you require more RAM). If they’re hosted on Shared platform, their account might be...

Best WordPress Database plugins to optimize, clean your tables

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Databases like Oracle, MySql, PostgreSQL are designed to store data of the user securely. They’re fast and highly secure. Databases are the backbone of almost all types of web applications. Due to incorrect configuration or lack of maintenance, your site or application will slow down. In severe cases, it may also crash. In the major multinational companies, you’ll find DB...

Operating Systems Security: Protection Measures Analysis

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The Internet has brought us a wealth of conveniences and everyday tools that we could not live without and more importantly a dependency that we cannot break. In the workplace the Internet has become a part of our day to day lives. We rely on instant communication with our co-workers, friends and colleagues as well as access to a multitude of information at our fingertips. Children from younger...

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