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Author Archive for "Professor" Benjamin

Written by "Professor" Benjamin on January 9, 2017

Should You Use “www” In Your URL or Not?

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To “www” or not to “www” … that is the question! Should you use “www” in your URL or not? A common problem is starting to crop up with website owners. The “www” or not-“www” decision that is made as part of your site’s URL has opened the door to a figurative Pandora’s Box of […]

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Written by "Professor" Benjamin on October 19, 2016

Locking Down WordPress Sites with Away Mode

If you are like me, you’ve got a ton of different WordPress sites that you manage, use, create and interact with throughout the week. You care about making sure you’re locking down WordPress, but you only visit some of these sites once a week or so to publish a blog post or edit some content. Can […]

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Written by "Professor" Benjamin on October 14, 2016

How to Optimize WordPress

There are many things you can do to optimize your WordPress website. In this post, we go a bit deeper than basic WordPress optimizations to some more advanced techniques for how to optimize WordPress. Note: Some of the following advanced WordPress optimization suggestions work better in certain server setups. Your performance may be different based […]

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Written by "Professor" Benjamin on June 22, 2016

Summer WordPress Cleanup Checklist

Congratulations on making it halfway through your New Year’s resolution of taking better care of your WordPress sites. If you are looking at that statement and thinking to yourself that you have already given up on that resolution, have heart, this post will help you get back on track with a simple checklist. The following […]

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Written by "Professor" Benjamin on May 17, 2016

A Guide to WordPress Server Directories

WordPress is so easy to install, you may never need to look at the WordPress server directories and file structure of a WordPress site on a server. However, understanding WordPress server directories and file locations can help if you ever need to expand and customize WordPress for yourself or your clients. WordPress developers should understand the importance […]

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Written by "Professor" Benjamin on April 12, 2016

What’s New in WordPress 4.5

Many new features and enhancements just arrived for WordPress in the latest 4.5 release, available now for download and upgrading your current WordPress sites. (In fact, WordPress 4.5 has already been downloaded over 258,000 times as of writing this post.) Several of the new features that are part of WordPress 4.5 are: Inline Link Editing […]

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Written by "Professor" Benjamin on April 5, 2016

How to Use CloudFlare with WordPress

CloudFlare can do everything from offer CDN abilities to speed up your WordPress website, add additional “pre-screening” security through a firewall system, protect your site against DDoS to ensure that something will be visible to real visitors and, probably most importantly, offer a high-quality DNS service. CloudFlare actually got its start by providing services to […]

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Written by "Professor" Benjamin on March 29, 2016

Moving WordPress in a Staging Environment

Reliable WordPress backups are just one of the many benefits of using BackupBuddy to protect and manage your sites. One of the lesser-known capabilities of BackupBuddy is to provide the flexibility to create a WordPress staging environment. Every web developer should know that it is unwise to edit live websites (even though everyone does it). […]

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Written by "Professor" Benjamin on March 28, 2016

The Complete WordPress Launch Checklist for Developers

The excitement is building and you are about ready to go live with a new WordPress website. The WordPress site you are about to launch could be for yourself, a client or a friend, and you don’t want to make a mistake and forget something. With this complete WordPress launch checklist, you should be able […]

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