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Setting up W3 Total Cache can be overwhelming. The popular and powerful caching plugin has 16 menus to contend with and offers a dizzying array of options to configure. However, get through all of them and a significant boost in website performance awaits you. This post is the second installment in a four-part series about W3 Total Cache (W3TC). Part …
We’ve got a long history here at WPMU DEV of developing plugins that grow your business, but I’ve always wanted to give you one plugin to rule them all. So today please let me introduce you to the first step in that direction: meet Hustle! Right now, Hustle is the best email opt-in plugin you’re ever going to meet. Not only is he …
Okay, so you’ve heard it before: humans have a shorter attention span than goldfish. If you think about it though, that’s not really a fair comparison to make. Your pet goldfish probably only has a few interesting things to look at in your home. They might occasionally tune into whichever show or movie is playing on the TV, but otherwise, …
Yep, you read that right: I got a 1311% speed boost when I set up Cloudways managed cloud hosting on my server combined with our Hummingbird and Smush Pro plugins. Woah, right? And I got that result with very little effort. You’ve no doubt had it drummed into you that optimizing your websites for speed is important. After all, 40% of …
Over the past three weeks, we’ve looked at how to get started using JavaScript on your website, how to implement jQuery for animations and effects, and how to use JavaScript objects as part of this series. Now we’re going back to basics. In order to actually use JavaScript, you need to know how to load it onto your site. This is …
Are you a WordPress developer? Or wanna be one? Well, according to Matt Mullenweg himself you should “Learn JavaScript, deeply” and hey, why not do that from WordPress expert (and Smashing Magazine WordPress editor) Daniel Pataki, here at WPMU DEV, for free? For Free? Yep, if you are a current member you don’t have to pay a penny – just hop over and …
There are 40 million brute force attacks on websites every day, so it’s highly likely your site will succumb to an attack. One relatively easy way to protect your site is to hide your login page from hackers. Making it harder for hackers to find the location of your login page file means there’s less chance they can attempt …
Thanks to the open source nature of WordPress, anyone – including hackers – can look up the typical file structure of a WordPress website and know exactly where to start an attack. Fortunately, rearranging your core WordPress file structure is one method you can employ from your security arsenal to combat hacks and bolster your site’s defenses. So in this …
Everyone makes mistakes from time to time. It happens. But when the mistake occurs within a website that you put a lot of time and effort into building, it can be frustrating to go back and re-do your work, no matter how minor the issue. As a WordPress developer, you know the platform inside and out. You’re also familiar with …
jQuery is a popular open source JavaScript library that enables you to make websites interactive and create animations. It was designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML and is widely used, with installation on 65% of the top 10 million highest-trafficked sites on the web. This is the second post in our four-part series focusing on JavaScript for WordPress …
