Make WordPress more secure by changing “wp-config.php” file location
Use a simple trick to make your WordPress installation more secure. All you have to do is change the location of your WordPress configuration file.
WPDB Profiling – Identify wordpress plugins and themes with slow database query load times
WPDB Profiling is a great plugin to examine the database query load times for your wordpress themes and plugins. It helps identify poorly written themes and plugins which make unwanted or excessive database calls, thereby dramatically increasing the page load times.
Save your image bandwidth using Smush.it
Smushit.com is a free web service offering image optimization service. You can select images stored on your computer or an URL and optimize it(smush it).
WordPress Smush.it is a free plugin which uses the Smush.it API and help reduce file size of images you upload on your blog. Smush.it seamlessly integrates with WordPress and optimize images by JPG compression, convert GIFs into PNGs, stripping unused colors and meta data.
Optimize images on your blog using SEO Friendly Images
One very important and often missed SEO management tactic is optimizing the images on your website. SEO Friendly Images is a simple but very effective plugin which automatically optimizes all your website images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes.
ALT attribute is important part of search engine optimization. It describes your images to search engine and is a key determining factor when a user searches for a certain image. TITLE attribute is little less important from SEO perspective but helps users as it serves as the tooltip text on mouse over.
Remove mandatory Category and Tags base from blog permalinks
Here is a little trick to better manage your blog permalinks in WordPress. WP No Category Base and WP No Tag Base are two simple plugins which will remove the mandatory category and tag base from your blog permalink structure.
By default WordPress adds “topics” or “tags” to the Category and Tags permalinks. You can change the default values as per your choice but you can’t disable it. That is were you can use the following two plugins to change the permalink structure.
15 free WordPress themes based on Hybrid Framework
Some WordPress designers give away free wordpress themes that can easily rival the solidity and features available only with premium themes. Justin Tadlock, a famous wordpress designer have created a solid open source WordPress theme framework called Hybrid and also provided loads of free themes based on it.
We will quickly discuss the Hybrid theme framework and present 15 free WordPress themes based on it. All are free, rock solid and provide a plethora of features.
Hello World..!! WordPress wins best CMS award
WordPress has been awarded the Open Source CMS Hall of Fame Award by PACKT Publishing. What a day to publish the first post for this blog. Stay tuned as we open the floodgates and start pouring post after post of WordPress Love.