Ultimate .htaccess Hacks to Supercharging your WordPress websites

Ultimate .htaccess Hacks to Supercharging your WordPress websites

There are several ways to improve your WordPress websites. Once you are done playing with the WordPress dashboard, plugins and themes then you must take a look to .htaccess. The .htaccess file is the easiest and the cheapest (actually it’s free!) solution to supercharging your WordPress websites but there are also some basic Apache knowledge requirements.

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Why I stop using Jetpack plugin

Jetpack’s bloat, replace Jetpack’s modules with other plugins

JetPack is all-in-one WordPress plugin developed by Automattic, made up of a bunch of useful modules, they called it as super-plugin. When I first heard about Jetpack, I was excited about the potential for WordPress.com features to be shared with WordPress.org users. It’s good choice (must have) when you start a WordPress website and in some previous post, I’ve told why do you should active JetPack first. But all-in-one or everything functionality plugin is not good for you, sometimes you will feel it

Why I stop using Jetpack plugin
Why I stop using Jetpack plugin

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Contact Form 7

Simple Tips for Creating Attractive Contact Page

Contact pages can often be just as important as a website’s homepage. A good contact page is essential for maintaining relationships with your visitors. It is the channel your users and clients have to communicate with you. It can help a lot in increasing the sales and conversation rates of a website. However, sometimes, most of the users ignore this feature in a lot of websites.
Following are some of the simple important tips will definitely lead you to design a perfect, elegant and attractive Contact page. Let’s put that right.

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Free Premium files of ThemeForest, CodeCanyon December 2013

Free Premium Files of ThemeForest, CodeCanyon December 2013

Do you bought your favorite items that you wished in this year during Black Friday & Cyber Monday 2013? If you miss it, you may get some premium files of last month in 2013 from some Market Place of Evato, Mojo Theme…
Each month, Envato is giving away a bunch of free files from their marketplaces. These files can range from free WordPress themes, WordPress plugins, HTML templates, scripts, images, videos, sound files and much more. Who does not like free stuff? My favourite marketplaces are the script marketplace CodeCanyon and the theme marketplace ThemeForest.
Here are the files which you can get for free for December 2013.

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WordPress Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2013

WordPress Black Friday & Cyber Monday 2013

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are two of most craziest shopping days in the entire United States. It’s that time of year again. Every year the WordPress world fully embraces these holidays by giving big discounts off their pricing. This year we wanted to bring you a list of some of the biggest and best WordPress deals for Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2013.
Our list below will be updated every day, so don’t forget to check back here or follow us on Twitter to discover the latest deals! If you have a deal you would like added to this list that would benefit our readers, please let us know by adding it to the comments below!

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Awe­some Free Premium WordPress Theme November 2013 Edition

Awe­some Free Premium WordPress Theme November 2013 Edition

If you are looking for free WordPress themes, you are in the right place. In this round up, we are showcasing some fresh and awesome free premium WordPress themes that’s appeared on November 2013. So, make your website or blog look stunning with these WordPress themes. With the use of these free premium WordPress theme, you can make your website stand out from the rest as well as give a long lasting impression on your customers or website visitors.
Every month we’ll be bringing you our pick of the best free WordPress themes released in the previous month. Here are our favorites for November, come and grab this amazing chance and start browsing through this fresh collection of WordPress themes.

Awe­some Free Premium WordPress Theme November 2013 Edition
Awe­some Free Premium WordPress Theme November 2013 Edition

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Blitz Test Result

Configuring Apache/PHP/MySQL for Low Memory (RAM) VPS

As you known, I’ve moved from HostGator to DigitalOcean for two months and I shared some tips to build your own perfect LAMP server optimize for WordPress. With the VPS expansion you can now get a (very) small virtual private server (VPS) for a very affordable price. However, when you get a server with something like 256MB or 512MB RAM and a portion of CPU power, using default MySQL/PHP/Apache settings is a pretty bad idea. Currently, I’m running 3 websites with DigitalOcean‘s lowest plan: 512MB RAM/1 CPU. Not sure for load, but lets say 5-10k visitors per day.
If you follow my guidelines in previous post, RAM usage will be increase up to 400 MB then running out in 1 – 2 weeks even you turned on swap. How to minimize memory usage on LAMP to prevent your server crash?
I’ve setup a working VPS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, LAMP server in 512MB of memory and it hasn’t gone into swap yet. It typically runs in just over 256 – 378Mb of memory and performs really well. So I thought I’d share the process of setting it up.

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How to use Featured Post Image in NARGA child theme

How to use Featured Post Image in NARGA child theme

I’ve crafted NARGA as WordPress starter theme to help me make another WordPress theme without built it from zero and save loads of time in the process.
Child themes are not as difficult as they may appear. The benefits of working off a parent theme means you don’t need to write all the HTML/CSS from scratch. A child theme will automatically use any template files you include, such as content.php or footer.php. But if they are missing, then your child theme will pull the same files from its parent.
When you write a post, you will find the way to set a featured image of post, that’s aweasome feature to make your website more attraction. In this short tutorial I am going to display and explain the code for getting the Featured Images to fit your needs.

How to use Featured Post Image in NARGA child theme
How to use Featured Post Image in NARGA child theme

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Free Premium files of ThemeForest, CodeCanyon December 2013

Free Premium files of ThemeForest, CodeCanyon November 2013

Envato is a web marketplace where you can get premium files for different areas of your website. Each month, Envato is giving away a bunch of free files from their marketplaces. These files can range from free WordPress themes, WordPress plugins, HTML templates, scripts, images, videos, sound files and much more. Who does not like free stuff?
Here are November’s freebies. They’re available until midnight on the 30th November. Grab them while you can!
You can download November 2013’s free premium files but first you have to sign-up, same login details can be used on all products of Envato.

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Top Beautiful & Free Premium WordPress Themes October 2013

Top Beautiful & Free Premium WordPress Themes October 2013

Every month we’ll be bringing you our pick of the best free WordPress themes released in the previous four weeks. This month we’ve had some excellent themes to choose from and had a tough time narrowing them down! They are all simple to use and customize ensuring that you can easily convey a unique style and brand on your site.

All themes in the collection are released under the GPL license, comes with cool and useful features and options. They can be used for various website types such as business, corporate, portfolio, gallery, photo, or whatever you want to use them for! Here are our favorites for October:

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Why I Moved to DigitalOcean & How to setup a perfect VPS

Guidelines to setup a perfect Digital Ocean VPS

As you can see, since last week, I did not publish new post because I have moved to Digital Ocean after a trial month. In the last few years I’ve used a lot of hosting providers. If you aren’t aware, I’ve been with HostGator for years, but after the last few months, I’ve been noticing their VPS services were slow. As my previous hosting contract was coming to an end and my friend has recommended Digital Ocean, I decided to take a look and was instantly surprised. DigitalOcean was just what I was looking for. Until now I’ve never actually found any that have been able to satisfy my needs at the right price. In this post, I’m going to let you guys know why I switched and why Digital Ocean is my host of choice right now.

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