September’s FREE File of the Month on Themeforest, CodeCanyon

September’s FREE File of the Month on Themeforest, CodeCanyon & others

I love the Fall, the weather is perfect in this time and I had some nation anniversaries. Yes, The Fall is my true holiday seasons. Every month I bring you a collection of spectacular Envato’s Marketplace items you can download absolutely free of charge. Of course, here are September’s freebies in  free file of the month post series. They’re available until midnight on the 30th September, 2014 (AEST). Grab them while you can!

By downloading these items, you agree to the terms of the Regular License. Support and updates are not provided for free files.

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Improve WordPress Comments System with Social Comments

Improve WordPress Comments System with Social Comments

The default comments system built into WordPress is very basic and not good as we expected to prevent spam (How To Stop WordPress Spam Comments?), connect to your audience… and it’s lacking of advanced functionality to improve the way to commenting on your website. Thankfully, WordPress plugins can help you done with threaded commenting (include in core comments system), use social media accout to login and comment, mark a comment as favorite/like/helpful or not …
The Social Comments System like Facebook, Google+, Disqus… breaking down the barriers between you and your audience. When someone reads an article on your site and wants to comment, they can now use one of their existing social networking accounts to post a comment.
Let’s take a look at some Social Comment Systems that will elevate you above the default WordPress comments system.

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Gear HTML5 Audio Player

Top 10+ Awesome jQuery Media Player Plugins for Handling Audio & Video

Handling Website’s Audio and Video in web browser without native player and flash is big problem in several years ago. Times have changed and nowadays, when audio and video are used on web, is used with the help of Javascripts and HTML5. Since most of the people want to display videos and audios on their websites and this can be done by jQuery Audio Video Player Plugins.
If you looking for the internet, you’ll find ton of Javascripts and HTML5 player. So, in this article I’m going to write about 10+ Awesome Video and Audio Player jQuery Plugins which are free, lightweight, features rich, responsive and accessibility.

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August's FREE file of the month on Themeforest, CodeCanyon & others 1

August’s FREE file of the month on Themeforest, CodeCanyon & others

Hello August! As you may know Themeforest and another Envato Marketplaces like CodeCanyon, VideoHive, 3DOcean … offer a free file of the month for download every month to encourage new sign-ups. It is completely free to setup an account with Themeforest, and this one account can be used to browse all of the other sites in the Envato Marketplace.
We all like freebies, right? Especially when they are of a premium quality and only free for a limited time.
Here are eight new free files from the Envato Marketplaces. They’re available until midnight on the 31st August (AEST). Grab them while you can for your next creative project. Don’t forget to sign into your account!

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Media Library Grid View

Quick Overview of New Features Coming in WordPress 4

The WordPress 4 is major version upgrade of most popular blogging/CMS software. It’ll avaiable on August 27, 2014 but we can take a look at What’s new features will comming in WordPress 4 by testing the beta versions. 4.0 is due out next month but I’m glad to report that all the features I was excited about made their way into the final release.
So what new features should we be expecting in WordPress 4?

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FREE file of the month – July 2014 | Themeforest, CodeCanyon & others

Every months, I’ve listed most expexted free premium files on Themeforest, CodeCanyon, ActiveDen … at the start of the month. These files can range from free WordPress themes, WordPress plugins, HTML templates, scripts, images, videos, sound files and much more. The Envato MarketPlace which include ThemeForest, Envato, Audio Jungle, Code Canyon, Graphic River, VideoHive, 3dOcean, PhotoDune offering free “premium”, “freemium” product called “Free File of The Month”.

This offer is for registered members only. All you have to do is create an account from one of the market places and you get access to all Envato Marketplaces.
They’re available from the first of this month until midnight on the the end of July, 2014 (AEDT). Although many of the items are definitely worth buying, getting a little something free each month does sweeten the pot and make you keep coming back for more.

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Varnish + Nginx in comparison with Nginx alone, which is better?

Like others, I confused with the combine of Varnish + Nginx and Nginx alone on my server. But since I optimized new server with only Nginx, FastCGI Cache, Memcache. I’ve found a lot of talk about using Nginx with Varnish or not around the Internet. Isn’t Nginx enough?

The Quick Answer: I choosed Nginx alone without Varnish because I’ve found Varnish ~5% faster for small static files than Nginx but I will have to spend more time to maintaining and configuring it to works as I experct. It is not worth my effort!
This arctile will explain the reason that I don’t use Varnish with Nginx like Apache before.

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How to Lose Weight and Reduce the Size of WordPress Installation

In Cloud Hosting Generation, you don’t care about the web hosting storage like some years back. But it’s note mean you don’t really care about WordPress size that included total files size and database size. Too large WordPress total file size is most backup and restore known issues. Trust me, it’s hard to store and manage large amounts of data. In some previous posts, I’ve mentioned about the ways to backup, clean and optimize WordPress database then in this post, we will talking about How to Lose Weight and Reduce the Size of WordPress by reduce images file size, remove bloat files, delete unused plugins or themes

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