Occasionally, you may want to update specific posts to have all links attributed with rel=”nofollow”. For example, if you have sponsored posts on your site you may want them to have the rel=”nofollow” attribute so that google does not index those external links on your site. I client of mine asked me to do this […]
I have to admit I am obsessed with web performance, and I spend a lot of time analysing server-side performance graphs. Recently I noticed a significant spike in database CPU usage as well as the web server CPU usage on one of my many websites. Almost all of my websites are on WordPress 3.7.1 (at […]
Scaling WordPress is something I’ve been studying for a long time. By nature, WordPress isn’t designed to run on multiple servers unless you do some re-architecting on the server-side. Finally I’ve found a way to scale WordPress elastically and on demand. ?What I’m about to share has worked for me personally and I don’t guarantee […]
When you write articles in WordPress, your revisions will periodically get saved in the database. This is a useful feature, however, each revision that is saved by WordPress results in a new record in your MySQL database. I don’t have a problem with having revisions stored in the database for my recent articles, but I […]
If you have a WordPress website that is live and don’t have it set up locally on your computer or laptop, you’re doing it wrong. To install WordPress on your local machine is a breeze. Why should you install WordPress on your local machine before running it on production? If you have a WordPress site, […]
Almost every site I build requires WordPress login / logout functionality and I haven’t been able to find a standard way of adding a login/logout link to the primary menu of my theme. I wrote this little filter that works like a charm and what I really really like about it is that when user […]
I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before, but WordPress has become my favourite open source tool ever. There is very little that you can’t do with it. I like how you can hook into almost any core WordPress functionality and last night I had to modify the??wordpress login widget. The problem I solved was […]