13 Great WordPress Speed Tips & Tricks for MAX Performance

Performance is a key factor for any successful website. And since WordPress is becoming more popular than ever, it will only be at its best when raised in the proper conditions. Here are a few things to try if you find that your WordPress site is not performing as well as it could be due to high traffic or hidden issues you don’t know about. Some Basic & Simple Steps1. Upgrade to latest WordPress releaseWordPress 2.7 have manny performance improvements over previous versions. So you better upgrade to latest release to make use of this. 2. Remove unnecessary Plugins & upgrade current onesRemove any plugins that you aren’t using. Deactivate...

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Display the number of SQL queries on your blog

If you want to display how many SQL queries have been made to your database as I’ve done on this blog like this: 53 queries in 0.788 secondsJust open the footer.php in your theme folder and paste the following code at anywhere you like: 1<?php echo get_num_queries(); ?> queries in <?php timer_stop(1); ?> seconds Another code for displaying that but except regular visitors and search engine bots, we will use a conditional function to do that: 1 2 3<?php if (is_user_logged_in()) { ?> <?php echo get_num_queries(); ?> queries in <?php timer_stop(1); ?> seconds. <?php } ?> The get_num_queries() function returns the number of executed query during your page loadi...

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Count the number of comments on your WordPress blog

This article will guide you how to display the number of comments on your blog (of course those are approved comments) by a simple php code below. 1 2 3 4 5 6<?php global $wpdb; $num_comments = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT COUNT(comment_ID) FROM $wpdb->comments WHERE comment_approved = '1'"); if ($num_comments > 0) $num_comments = number_format($num_comments); echo "There are " . $num_comments . " comments on my blog"; ?> Paste the code to places you like in your theme's php files. And this is a live demo  There are 1,172 comments on my blog In the next article, I will guide you how to count the number of posts/pages on your blog. Remember to re...

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Awesome WordPress hacks to make your blogger life easier

WordPress hacks are always a popular topic here at Cats Who Code. Today, I have compiled hacks that will make your blogger life easier, by optimizing and simplifying how your WordPress blog works. Enjoy! Hardcode to make WordPress fasterHardcoding is generally not a good practice, however in the case of an established website, hardcoding your blog url, site url, template path and stylesheet path will make your blog run faster. When a function such as bloginfo('url') is called, WordPress executes a query to your database to get the value, except if the value can be found on your wp-config.php file. To hardcode those constants, edit wp-config.php and paste the following (Don’t forget to change the values!): view sourceprint?1.define('WP_HOME', 'http://seo-ho.blogspot.com/'); // blog url2.define('WP_SITEURL',...

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10 Easy Ways to Secure your WordPress Blog

Securing your blog is important. With WordPress so popular these days, it’s becoming a bigger and bigger target for hackers. In this post we’ll look at ten easy ways to secure your WordPress blog. 1. WP Security ScanThis very easy to use plugin will sort out some of the basic security issues with WordPress - it'll change your database's name and alert you to flaws in your installation's security, amongst other features. Download. 2. Protect your pluginsPlugins are an easy way for a hacker to get access to your blog if they've got flaws in them. An easy way for hackers to find out which plugins you're using is to go to /wp-content/plugins/, and they'll find all the plugins that you're using. The solution? Put a blank index.html file in the wp-content/plugins/ folder. 3. Update WordPressThis...

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Gforums Premium WordPress Forums Plugin

Turn Your WordPress Site Into Forums site! Just Imagine How cool it would be if you can Turn your wordpress site into a forums site or discussion board!.This was impossible till Yesterday but, not today! Introducing The wordpress  gForums wordpress forums theme! The Revolutionary WordPress forums theme that turns your wordpress blog site to forums(Discussion board) in seconds! Download: http://megaupper.com/files/SD3XKNPP/gForums_v1.0.zip http://www.filehit.net/fisier/110005 http://www.mediafire.com/file/zy0zgn2ymmn/gForums_v1.0.zip http://uploadbud.com/files/1K35LTFT/gForums_v1.0.zip http://www.uploadjockey.com/download/8052764/gForums_v1.0....

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How do you get backlinks fast

Create LinkBacks is one of the most important tasks for SEOer to optimize website search engine. Seoer always create a new backlinks not stop, however, while creating backlinks there are too many questions so we can complete a backlinks. This article will address some questions and help the newbie like me can create the backlinks as possible: * How do I get backlinks fast? * How much should build links every week, every month? Does google have a fine website if I make too many links? The answer to these questions will be thoroughly examined in this article. Let's start. The backlinks built by nature. "Nature" is mentioned here is that when consumers find and visit your Web site or through search engines or other sources, they see or read the contents and liked it so they link with it. Of...

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