Linux

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 [...]

WordPress Theme Design and CSS Basics

Tomorrow I’ll be tutoring at Metro Screen for the students enrolled in the Advanced Diploma in Screen and Media (CUF60107). I’ll be focusing on the design section of the assessment brief for the Media Rich Blog assessment: Strong, eye-catching and appropriate post and page titles. Self branding, such as a header image created using image [...]

Google Speed Module to help WordPress

The importance of improving Webpage load speed as a critical part of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) activities increased to grow. Google has announced a seriously awesome (and simple) means of gaining significant improvements in page-speed; the mod_pagespeed Apache module (sorry Microsoft Internet Information Server users but you don’t get to benefit from this!) is being [...]

How to use GoDaddy Cron Manager for WP-o-Matic

WordPress Wp-O-Matic not working with godaddy? Here is the solution… GoDaddy is used by many people to host their websites. Among the many Tool offered with GoDaddy Linux hosting is a Cron Manager. Cron is very simplistically the Linux / Unix equivalent of Windows ‘Scheduled Tasks’. The GoDaddy version simplifies the usual command based Cron [...]