Your guide to the WordPress universe
In the past I’ve written about WPCDN.com and how WPVerse uses their service. I recently needed to make some changes to my account and since I was never aware of a self service control panel, I wrote to WPCDN but didn’t hear back from them so I decided it was expand my horizons. I met …
Continue reading “Speeding up your WordPress site with MaxCDN (Advanced users)”
A lot of people ask me what are my favorite WordPress plugins. So here they are in alphabetical order as of June. I’ve covered a lot of these plugins already but I might omitted a few of them and some of them are new ones I’ve discovered from fellow WordPress designers and developers (like Natalie …
Well, it’s only been about 8 hours since Automattic released an arsenal of all-in-one WordPress plugins called Jetpack. After trying them out for the past few hours, we’ve arrived at this conclusion: If you add these to existing live sites, you may run into some compatibility issues with existing plugins. Example #1: On one of …
Continue reading “New WordPress All-in-One Plugin JetPack: Our Review”
One of our readers asked us a great question on Twitter, “could they host their site on a CDN (Content Delivery Network)?” Our answer: yes and no, a CDN’s main purpose is deliver static content (images, CSS, Javascript, and ZIP files) from the closest geographically based server to a particular user on your website. A …
Continue reading “How to host your WordPress site on Amazon Web Services”
In the past few months, I’ve been obsessed almost daily with speeding up my litany of WordPress sites. Having relevant, well written content plus a fast site is a way to get readers to keep coming back and search engines now take content plus speed into account. I’ve tried quite a few plugins and services. …
In the next few days, we’ll look at some WordPress plugins that will help speed up your site. Why speed up your site? If you have a WP site with more than 50 visitors a day and have 100 or more pages, you need to keep your site running fast as possible so people don’t …