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 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...]
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...]
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