Posts from category:wordpress

Blogging for 13 years, i have a lot of images in my WordPress directory. 30,930 to be exact. A lot of those we orphaned, because of post deletion and drafts never published, but i never knew how many there were. And a plugin like Media Cleaner Pro is very useful just for that. The free […]

I’ve moved my blog to https a few weeks back and one of the first effects was the total loss of refferal traffic to people i link. Total. After some reading, i found out it was a common problem, but i also found a solution. And it’s a simple one: just put this in the […]

Due to mutiple scans on the xmlrpc protocol, i chose to protect xmlrpc.php file with .htaccess. <Files xmlrpc.php> Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from 188.24 Allow from 188.27 </Files> The problem is that, if I want to update Jetpack, it shows the following message: Your website needs to be publicly accessible to use Jetpack: […]

So, you wrote an article that makes its way fast through social media, huh? That is great, but your server is getting tired and you receive an email from the hosting company that says your shared plan does not cover this type of thing and you need to upgrade. What they don’t tell you is […]

I was testing WP-Fastest Cache on my main blog and, after changing back to WP-SuperCache, I noticed I was not able to retrieve the articles published on the blog. WLW was trying and trying and kept on trying and no deal. Others blog worked just fine. After two days of digging, I found the problem. […]

WordPress has a function that allows a theme to set how many sizes and how many thumbnails a image should have, other that the thumb set in Settings » Media. And, upon upload, thumbs are created. I understand why the theme needs to make some thumbnails, for better design. I do not understand, however, why […]

Yoast SEO plugin does a good job at cleaning out garbage added at the end of urls. You know, the kind of garbage Facebook and Feedburner spit out: http://dorinlazar.ro/orice-hirtie-cere-statul-plus/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FlyOnTheWindscreen-Full+%28Fly+on+the+Windscreen+All+blog+posts%29 The problem is not the ugly url, but the fact that sometimes it breaks twitter or ym or other service I try to send the link […]

I’ve switched to CloudFront as a CDN provider for my main blog. The stats: 180.000 monthly unique visitors, 10-12.000 daily unique visitors, 93 Gb traffic for the regular hosting (html and blog images), 30 Gb from CloudFront (just the CSS and the theme images). Final costs: 13.86$.  

Read an article on CopyBlogger about fast websites. Pressed F12, loaded that article. Took five seconds on first load, 3 seconds on second. Took a screenshot, told them about it. Comment was not approved. Smiled. I eat wordpress optimization for breakfast. I make money optimizing blogs for agencies and private clients. I have a fast […]

I like to do things manually on my blogs and use as little plugins i can. If i can use a plugin for two things it’s great. A good example is Auto feature Image plugin i am using for display on the front page of my blog, rss thumbnail and Facebook thumbnail (details here). Here […]