EWWW Image Optimizer is what I use for compressing the PNG files on WP Bullet on the fly. It uses free software like pngquant to reduce the image size of the banners after I upload them. For some reason pngquant is pretty outdated in the Debian and Ubuntu repository. This guide will show you how to … Learn more…
Keeping your WordPress sites clean from malware infection is critical. Having an infected WordPress site can impair the user experience and consume unnecessary resources, slowing your site down. Many users will use WordPress plugins for scanning for malware. While this is great for shared hosting users who do not have shell access to their server, … Learn more…
The default WordPress search uses MySQL which is not search-optimized and can be slow. Elasticsearch is a NoSQL database which uses a lucene structure. The goal of Elasticsearch is to provide search results in real time. ElasticPress is the plugin that integrates WordPress with ElasticSearch to make WordPress searching fast and awesome. It extends WordPress … Learn more…
Mailgun is an awesome free service for sending email safely from your WordPress server. They have a WordPress plugin that uses the Mailgun HTTP API so you can conceal your web server’s IP address – you should never host email on your web server for security reasons like spam, exploitation and risk your server IPs … Learn more…
Whitelisting your IP address for login pages on WordPress, WooCommerce or any CMS is one of the best security methods for protection from hackers. Most ISPs use dynamic IP addressing which means your IP address will change from time to time. This poses a convenience problem since you will be denied access to site served by nginx if … Learn more…