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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....

Fouad Matin • 16 Sep 2011
Scaling

Working With Changing, Cacheable Data? WP-Transients Has Got Your Back!

Tutorial • Beginner

Changing data is ever present in a WordPress-powered site. Be it a new post, an added comment, or an updated tweet for the front page, the status of a blog...

Karthik Viswanathan • 14 Sep 2011
Hosting

Migrating WordPress Across Hosts, Servers, and URLs

Tutorial • Beginner

Today, we are going to take a beginner's approach to moving your WordPress blog to a new host/server or even changing its address (URL). So if you are...

Jonathan Yarbor • 14 Jul 2011
Hosting

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...

Adam Murray • 8 Jul 2011
AWS

How to Create a Web Service in a Matter of Minutes

Tutorial • Intermediate

Twice a month, we revisit some of our readers’ favorite posts from throughout the history of Nettuts+. This tutorial was first published in July, 2010. ...

Chris Heilmann • 9 May 2011
Web Servers

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. ...

Joseph Pecoraro • 26 Apr 2011
Security

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...

Karthik Viswanathan • 26 Jul 2010
CodeIgniter

CodeIgniter from Scratch: File Uploading and Image Manipulation

Tutorial • Intermediate

In lesson nine of our CodeIgniter series, we'll build a small image gallery that allows you to upload files, and automatically create thumbnails.

Burak Guzel • 19 Feb 2010
AWS

Supercharge Website Performance With AWS S3 and CloudFront

Tutorial • Beginner

We live in a world where people are increasingly expecting more and faster speeds. In fractions of a second, your website can lose valuable visitors and in...

Jarel Remick • 13 Oct 2009
Web Servers

Supercharge Your CSS with PHP Under the Hood

Tutorial • Beginner

Cascading Style Sheets is a presentational style sheet language. In that sense, it does not have a lot of the functionality that many developers want to...

Michael Owens • 24 Aug 2009
Web Servers

5 Fun and Practical Htaccess Solutions

Tutorial • Intermediate

Today we will go over some practical uses of htaccess files that you can use in your web applications.

Noah Hendrix • 17 Jul 2009
Web Servers

The Ultimate Guide to .htaccess Files

Tutorial • Intermediate

Apache's .htaccess configuration files have baffled countless developers. This tutorial aims to break through this confusion by focusing on examples and...

Joseph Pecoraro • 11 May 2009