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

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...]

WordPress Admin Post List Marker (Like email Inbox)

We have talked about the need to mark some articles with a star or some label to classify some posts at WordPress backend. Oddly, this function which is widely used in an email inbox is absent in WordPress admin post list. If you have some sponsored posts or posts with affiliate links, you can not easily find them among thousands of published articles. Admin tables are created using the … [Read more...]

Which is Better MySQL Engine for WordPress : MyISAM or InnoDB

We talked about InnoDB via several articles such as InnoDB vs Percona XtraDB, InnoDB Optimization etc. A practical question is, which is better MySQL engine for WordPress - MyISAM or InnoDB? In the year 2014, we have written about MyISAM - "MyISAM is ACID compliant. ACID stands for Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability. Most Plugins works great for Innodb MySQL Engine except Yet Another … [Read more...]

Serverless WordPress and Some Serverless WordPress Plugins

Serverless Probably One of the Most Tricky Usage of Cloud Computing. Serverless is the native architecture of the cloud that enables to shift the operational responsibilities to the cloud host without thinking about servers. Previously we discussed about Serverless, gave example how to work with IBM Serverless and published example of PHP scripts with Serverless. Also one can install Apache … [Read more...]

WordPress Security : Apache2 Module to Log HTTP POST Method

Earlier we discussed about the HTTP POST method. Technically We Should Log HTTP Request Methods. Here is How to Apache Module to Log HTTP POST Method, As Example For WordPress Installation. After examination of few weeks log, we can block the malicious HTTP POST requests. This guide is for those who have installed Apache HTTPD server using our method. We say `apache2` instead of … [Read more...]

Why MySQL Auto Restart Failing in WordPress Cloud Server

Why MySQL Auto Restart Failing in WordPress Cloud Server Despite Your Efforts of Trying Various Optimization and Scripts to Auto-Restart? We already talked around fixing Error Establishing a Database Connection in WordPress, Autostart MySQL After a Crash, other MySQL fixes for Ubuntu and latest fixes for Ubuntu 18.04. Various updates on the part of different software partially force us to discover … [Read more...]