apache

How to choose the best WordPress Host

The minimum requirements for a self-hosted WordPress Blog or Website are: PHP version 5.2.4 or greater MySQL version 5.0 or greater WordPress.org adds that they ‘recommend Apache or Nginx as the most robust and featureful server for running WordPress, but any server that supports PHP and MySQL will do. That said, we can’t test every possible environment …’. In theory these [...]

How to remove ‘WordPress’ from your URL

So you’ve installed WordPress in a folder on your Webhost. Your URL now probably looks something like http://example.com/wordpress. This doesn’t look great and also you probably want people to see your WordPress Site at your domain name e.g. http://example.com. How do you do this? Although there are some complicated ways of achieving this redirect with [...]

5 Tools and Ways to Improve Page Load Speed

Webpage load speed is becoming more important for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) purposes. Google (and other Search Engines?) use the time it takes for a Website page to load as part of its ranking algorithm; faster is better! Fortunately there are some great free tools and methods that help to make your Website faster. Here [...]

How to use .htaccess

The .htaccess file is an extremely powerful and efficient means of performing configuration on your Website. .htaccess is typically used for blocking visitors, rewriting URLs, cache control, customizing error messages and access control (security) among other things. One of the best ‘quick guides’ to .htaccess is provided by ‘the jackol’s den’ who has kindly made [...]