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  1. Optimizing WordPress Loading Speed With header.php & .htaccess

    Optimizing WordPress Loading Speed With header.php & .htaccess

    Tutorial Beginner

    Website loading speed matters a lot for every blog/website, especially for people with shared hosting – which is the cheapest available hosting service. Here...

  2. Best Practices for Preventing BuddyPress Spam User Registrations

    Best Practices for Preventing BuddyPress Spam User Registrations

    Tutorial Intermediate

    The BuddyPress plugin turns any WordPress installation into a rich social networking site complete with forums, friend requests, and ... countless numbers of...

  3. Secure Your WordPress Against User-Agents and Bots

    Secure Your WordPress Against User-Agents and Bots

    Tutorial Beginner

    Lately there have been a lot of WordPress sites compromised only due to the bots that roam the world wide web! There are a lot of plugins out there which can...

  4. Using WordPress Multisite: A Network of Websites at Your Fingertips

    Using WordPress Multisite: A Network of Websites at Your Fingertips

    Tutorial Beginner

    Today, we will look at the basics of WordPress MS - or for those users that have been using WordPress for a while - Multisite or WordPress MU. WordPress MS...

  5. .htaccess Files for the Rest of Us

    .htaccess Files for the Rest of Us

    Tutorial Beginner

    .htaccess files are used to configure Apache, as well a range of other web servers. Despite the .htaccess file type extension, they are simply text files...

  6. Using Timthumb with Custom URLs for Site Optimization

    Using Timthumb with Custom URLs for Site Optimization

    Tutorial Beginner

    In this article, I will share on how to get a better page speed score even when you are using TimThumb as your thumbnail resizer for your site. On my...

  7. How to Set Up a WordPress Development Environment for Windows

    How to Set Up a WordPress Development Environment for Windows

    Tutorial Beginner

    Having a local WordPress test environment is essential for developing themes, plugins, and updating sites. The last thing you want to do is update a live...

  8. 11 Quick Tips: Securing Your WordPress Site

    11 Quick Tips: Securing Your WordPress Site

    Tutorial Beginner

    WordPress is the most used open-source platform nowadays for any type of websites: whether it is blog, CMS or any other custom solution. WordPress is...

  9. 10 Steps to Securing Your WordPress Installation

    10 Steps to Securing Your WordPress Installation

    Tutorial Beginner

    WordPress is open source which means that everyone, including hackers with a malicious intent, can scour the source code looking for holes in its security....

  10. Migrating a WordPress Site From a Local Server to Production

    Migrating a WordPress Site From a Local Server to Production

    Tutorial Beginner

    Integral to any WordPress developer's arsenal is the local server. In this tutorial, I want to walk you all the way from installing a local server to...

  11. An In-Depth Guide to mod_rewrite for Apache

    An In-Depth Guide to mod_rewrite for Apache

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Twice a month, we revisit some of our readers’ favorite posts from throughout the history of Nettuts+. This tutorial was first published last September. ...

  12. 20 Steps to a Flexible and Secure WordPress Installation

    20 Steps to a Flexible and Secure WordPress Installation

    Tutorial Beginner

    A comprehensive WordPress installation, albeit simple to produce, often requires multiple steps -- many of which can easily be omitted accidentally. How many...