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The Best WordPress Security Plugin For 2013 (Triagis Reviewed)
There are a lot of security plugins out there for WordPress, but most fail to address the basic needs that we need to feel…
How to Find and Fix Broken Links on Your WordPress Site
Broken links are annoying for both web site visitors and for search engines. Fortunately, it is realtively simple to find and correct broken links…
5 Tips to Maximizing Drupal’s Efficiency
While Drupal is an effective CMS it can be quite draining on your PC as far as your RAM and CPU usage, but there…
Move Your Blog from Hosted to Self-Hosted WordPress in 6 Easy Steps
Many blog owners start out with a free service, like Blogger, hosted WordPress.com or Tumblr. As their content amount and traffic increases, though, the…
How To Change The Hostname in CentOS 6 and 7
CentOS7 is finally here! In this guide, I will take a quick look at how you can change the hostname in CentOS
Embedded Code: A Simple Way to Add HTML, PHP and Other Code in Web Site Articles
Writing for many sites that utilize different content management systems had me seeking out general ways to do common things. I write a great…
How To Secure Your Wp-Admin Backend: Htaccess Apache Authentication
As a result of the recent brute force attacks on self hosted WordPress sites, I decided to create a second level of authentication for…
Can a Pinterest-friendly WordPress site boost up your traffic?
Can a Pinterest-friendly WordPress site boost up your traffic? The main reason why a Pinterest-like page is welcome to WordPress is that the former…
Productivity Tip For Webmasters: Save Time Resizing Photos With Light Image Resizer
Previously called “VSO Image Resizer,” the “Light Image Resizer” tool helps save time for those that constantly modify images on their computer. This is…
Adsense Ads: Why It Is Not A Good Idea To Use Asynchronous Ads vs. Synchronous Ads Right Now
Adsense delivered great results last month. This month I decided to give asynchronous ads another try to improve the site loading speed. Here are…
How To Secure Your WordPress Installation (Video)
In this article I am going to discuss some of the general tweaks that can be performed to improve the security for a WordPress…
CentOS: See progress of copy with this tiny server utility
Server utilities are a great way to make your life as a webmaster easier. Have you ever wanted to see the progress of “cp,…
Update: There have been changes to both the Prosper202 files and the GoDaddy servers.
Follow the instructions below but keep two changes in mind: 1) Rather than replacing $_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’] with $_SERVER[‘SUBDOMAIN_DOCUMENT_ROOT’] use $_SERVER[“REAL_DOCUMENT_ROOT”] instead. A recent server upgrade…
30 Best Project Management Tools: Time, Budget And Expense Tracking
The following is a compilation of the 30 most useful project management tools to keep track of your expenses, time, budget, invoices, colleagues, files…
Best Free WordPress eCommerce Plugin: An Overview Of The Premium eStore Plugin By Tips & Tricks HQ
The developers at Tips & Tricks HQ put together a free plugin for WordPress that makes it very simple to add an “Add to…
How Can I Delete All Comments in WordPress
It has happened to me before where I left comments on on a blog and didn’t mean to, and after awhile when I finally…
Changing WordPress wp-admin Path Using Lockdown WP Admin
WordPress is a secure-ish system by default but there are still several things that can be changed to make it a more secure environment.…
3 Methods To Check What CentOS Version You Are Running (5, 6 or 7)
CentOS is the default server operating system on most Linux servers these days, but many servers still run CentOS 5, which Method 1: Cat…
Top 5 SEO Plugins For WordPress
Even Matt Cutts, the head of the spam team for Google, will tell you that WordPress out of the box is very SEO friendly.…
Top 10 Productivity Tools for Webmasters
A productivity tool is a piece of software that can help you increase work efficiency by streamlining your daily tasks. A variety of utility…
Recent Botnet WordPress Attack: How to Secure a WordPress Website
In light of the recent WordPress attack where a botnet of “tens of thousands” of computers tried gaining access to WordPress blogs across the…
Is Your “Temporary” Online Service Business Standing in the Way of IM Goals?
Providing much-needed services online is a great way to offset the costs of your online business project or even provide a full-time income so…
CentOS 7: Determine if you are using 64 or 32 bit Server version
If you are a running a server it is often important to know what version you are using, 32-bit or 64-bit. Here are multiple…
How To Clear The Drupal Cache Every 30 Minutes Via Cronjob
One of the disadvantages of Drupal is that it has a very steep learning curve and is not as user-friendly as WordPress. For example,…
National Cyber Security Awareness Part 1: How To Avoid Online Scams And “Homograph Attacks”
October is the National Cyber Security month. Our webhosting partners Singlehop asked me to write an article to raise awareness for this cause to…
Video: Running PHP Code in a Post or Page in WordPress
There are many ways to “skin a cat” as they say, and this saying holds true for adding PHP code to WordPress pages and…
How to Increase Engagement on Google+
If you are trying to expand your reach to different social media platforms or if your company’s target demographic consists of young, tech-savvy consumers,…
How To Losslessly Compress And Convert JPGs to Progressive JPGs Using JPEGtran
Most of what we download on the web are images. In fact most websites these days rarely serve a lot of CSS or JSS…
Updated: ‘Shell Shock’ Remote Code Exploitation: How To Patch Bash And Determine If Your System Is Vulnerable
A remote code exploitation dubbed ‘Shell Shock’ has been uncovered by Stéphane Chazelas, a security and Linux specialist working for a large software firm.…
How To Disable SELinux On CentOS 6.x (Possible NSA Backdoor?)
Many no longer trust SELinux (an open-source contribution by the NSA) and rightfully want to disable it. Here’s how you can quickly disable it…
Making Your Site Mobile-Ready: Google Search Drives Future of Mobile Design
As the creator of the Android OS, which is now the largest mobile operating system on the web, Google will obviously play a very…
Screen Real Estate – 4 Ways to Optimize Productivity
Anyone who’s started any type of business online will tell you, time management is one of the most difficult things to master in working…
How to set up a WordPress eCommerce Site using WooCommerce
Product owners, whether having digital or physical products, or a combination of the two, like to “set up shop” on the Internet as a…
20 WordPress Security Tips And Best Practices To Secure Your Blog
In this article we will discuss WordPress security and give you 20 tips to enhance the security of your blog. Tip 1: Consider Htaccess Authentication to…