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Latest news, plugins, themes, blogs and SEO about Wordpress platform and Website designing as a whole.

Google Algorithm Update 2021

This year's Google’s new algorithm changes are minor but it is important to know the summary. It is official and well known that Google is now giving importance to "Page Experience". Apart from Page Experience, the possible signals which they will give importance are mobile-friendliness, safe-browsing, HTTPS, site’s loading speed, interactivity, visual stability and possibly alt text for images. I … [Read more...]

External Link Icon With Hover With Base64 Data URI and CSS

Many of the webmasters and bloggers want to add a Wikipedia style external link icon to some of the external links. It is obvious matter that using a transparent image for this kind of external link icon increases one HTTP request. We have an old guide on how to use a transparent image to add an icon beside the external links for the effect. In short, the method for it was using a CSS like below … [Read more...]

Simple Bash Script For MySQL Database Backup

Regular MySQL backup is of utmost importance for any website running with a MySQL database, like WordPress. Because it is the MySQL which stores all the textual and other information. FTP usually have the theme files and post images. In this article, we will show how to write some simple bash scripts to automatically backup your MySQL at a particular time of the day from localhost or a backup … [Read more...]

WordPress Genesis Semi-static Home Page with Static Content From a Page

If your website has thousands of articles like our website, you'll end up finding a design which will support showing multiple lists of articles as static part followed by the regular design of blog's homepage. It is a retro-style, thesitewizard.com is a good example of that style. This article is going to help the webmasters who are willing to afford a theme designer. Although this guide is for … [Read more...]

How To Increase Your Website’s Domain Authority

Domain Authority (DA) is a numerical value ranging from 0-100 to reflect an idea of how well a website will rank on Google web search and possibly other web searches. It was developed by Moz. The Domain Authority (DA) of a website points towards the relevance for a specific industry. In the beginning, Google made the PageRank (PR) public which unleashed a flood of optimization strategies. There … [Read more...]

How to Get a Featured Snippet on Google Search Result

Google search shows up a featured snippet is a summary of an answer to a query on top of the search results with text content from a webpage. As it is automatically selected by Google, peoples all over the earth discovered various tricks to get a featured snippet on Google search result from own domain. The domain under question must be an older active website with a decent MOZ rank (probably over … [Read more...]

PHP 7.4 and WordPress .htaccess

WordPress setup running on the top of Apache uses the .htaccess file. .htaccess on Apache server setup remains on FTP and works like the other Apache settings files. It mostly controls common matters like the URLs and access to a directory. .htaccess files degrade the performance of the Apache backend server. As the number of directories on a site gets larger, it impacts the crawl. Apache … [Read more...]

What Content ads.txt & app-ads.txt Should Have?

Any serious blogger already know the basics on ads.txtbasics on ads.txtbasics on ads.txt. Gradually IAB and the browsers are implementing strict norms. Restriction on ads.txt can severely affect earning by blocking the network. Here is what content on ads.txt will return more money. ads.txt avoids spoofing. Ad fraud severely affects the earning of the industry. The target is to prevent … [Read more...]

MySQL Performance Tuning For WordPress (Percona MySQL)

Optimizing MySQL for WordPress running on Virtual Server is not exactly easy. There is no way to predict how the hardware will behave. Most of us deliver optimization tips for the dedicated servers. I saw that cloud server from Rackspace, HP Cloud and IBM Cloud are like dedicated servers. Often for one server setup, we end up with some compromise. If you are using cloud server, then after trial … [Read more...]

WordPress MySQL Replication With HyperDB

In our earlier guides, we have discussed about Standalone Database and Distributed Database, shown MySQL Configuration to Set Up Master-Slave Replication. Here is the required setup and settings to make WordPress use master/slave MySQL database with replication fully working. The total set of articles will make your WordPress setup far more advanced and fail proof. Obviously, like anything it will … [Read more...]

Avoiding Landing Page Failure

Landing pages are said to be one of the most prominent and yet easy to implement online marketing tool. The concept enthusiasts at every possible opportunity quote its numerous benefits such as: increasing conversion rate, getting insights about visitors, getting attention of customers quickly, building trust, speeding up decision making process. Frankly speaking … [Read more...]