There sure is a lot you need to remember when working with WordPress theme files. From the names of basic template files to functions and how the WordPress Loop works, it’s next to impossible to remember every PHP tag or even how to define a new theme.
It’s important to know just how well your WordPress website can handle large amounts of traffic in the event you get a sudden traffic spike. With Tsung, you can stress test your site for free, see your server’s limits first-hand, and use the data to create a plan to scale your site.
Source: Stress Testing Your WordPress Site So You’re Ready for Traffic Spikes
Google Analytics is a popular, powerful, and free service you can use to track and analyze your website traffic. If you aren’t already using it, getting started is easy. However, if you’ve never used the program before, it can be a bit intimidating to get started. So let’s fix that.
Source: A Comprehensive Guide to Google Analytics and Understanding Your WordPress Site Traffic
How to Reach a PageSpeed of 100
Welcome to part two of our series on Google PageSpeed.
This Anti-Malware scanner searches for Malware, Viruses, and other security threats and vulnerabilities on your server and it helps you fix them.
Source: Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall — WordPress Plugins
Interested in taking your WordPress game to a whole new level? Want to further develop your PHP skills and add more complex and exciting functionality to your themes and plugins? Welcome to our latest series, WordPress Development for Intermediate users. This series follows on from our popular WordPress Development for Beginners tutorials, which introduced you to the fundamentals of developing websites with WordPress, how to get started coding with PHP, and building themes and plugins.
Source: WordPress Development for Intermediate Users: Theme Development in Detail
So your site is down and you can’t log in… and you just realized you don’t have a recent backup. Dammit. Before you launch into panic mode, though, it’s safe to say you’re not completely screwed. In an ideal world, you would have a working backup that you could use to restore your site, but we don’t exactly live in a perfect world. Sometimes, backups don’t work, get corrupted, or we simply forget (or neglect…) to make one in the first place.
Source: Creating a Manual Backup of WordPress When It’s Down or Locked
A successful web design project involves plenty of work before you type a line of code. Before you can start designing or building a site, you need to know what it needs to achieve, who the stakeholders are, and what you need to do to make it a success. Today, I want to encourage you to take some time to get ready before you start coding a new project. In this post, we’ll look at some of the tasks you need to consider before diving into designing and building a site, whether that site is for a client, your employer, or even yourself.
A few years ago, I played a big part in building a client website that’s still successful enough today but has become frustratingly slow. The database is full of clutter and there are some pages that take as long as 26 seconds to load due to the number of images and other requests it makes to the server. We decided it was high time to do something about this and recently rebuilt the site, applying tried and tested speed techniques, which lowered the loading time to around 2 seconds on more complex pages and just 800ms on simple pages.
WordPress is the preferred content management system behind 26% of the world’s websites. Many of which are for major brands, companies, and public figures like CNN, Major League Baseball, Katy Perry, Mashable, TechCrunch, and the New York Post. Obviously, their experience managing their WordPress website is going to be much different from your own.
Source: 10 of the Best WordPress Support Services Available in 2016