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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...

Willie Pena • 31 Mar 2012
Hosting

Activating Ludicrous Speed: Combine CloudFlare With a CDN on Your Blog

Tutorial • Beginner

If you're trying to speed up your blog, you've probably used techniques such as optimizing your images, getting rid of unnecessary plugins and scripts, and...

Thomas Frank • 26 Feb 2012
Hosting

WordPress Multisite Beyond Basics: Essentials and Domain Mapping

Tutorial • Beginner

Today we will be discussing a few very important aspects of WordPress Multisite. If you are new to WordPress Multisite please go through the WordPress...

Soumitra Chakraborty • 19 Feb 2012
Security

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...

Bilal Shaheen • 9 Feb 2012
Web Servers

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...

Adam Murray • 30 Jan 2012
Web Servers

.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...

Dan Wellman • 24 Jan 2012
Hosting

The Ultimate Quickstart Guide to Speeding Up Your WordPress Site

Tutorial • Beginner

Give your site a boost! Implement crucial optimization techniques that will improve not only your ySlow score, but your Google rank too. In this tutorial we...

Matt Pilott • 23 Jan 2012
Web Servers

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...

Mohd Hadihaizil Din • 31 Dec 2011
Web Servers

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...

Jason Witt • 22 Dec 2011
Security

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...

Avinash Zala M • 3 Dec 2011
Hosting

How to Sync A Local & Remote WordPress Blog Using Version Control

Tutorial • Beginner

Ever wondered how you might use Version Control with WordPress? If you prefer to work on your WordPress projects locally but have to get them to sync...

Abid Omar • 11 Oct 2011
Web APIs

Getting Real-Time With Pusher

Tutorial • Intermediate

Do you want to spice up your web applications by making them real-time — but don't want to create new infrastructures for the sole purpose of getting web...

Nikko Bautista • 4 Oct 2011