The only three things that matter most to speed up your WordPress website, make it faster are: image optimization, database optimization and enabled caching.
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Defining The Purpose You Want Your Website To Serve
You should be focusing strongly on function, usability to better manage your website as your business asset. Stating your goal as your first step to your online presence is an important thing to do.
To make your own website, simply start by thinking the purpose you want your website to serve and then transform that purpose into a live website by using WordPress on your domain and installing themes/plugins accordingly.
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How To Switch WooCommerce To Catalog Mode In WordPress?
WooCommerce, the popular eCommerce plugin for WordPress can be used for showcasing your products and services in a catalog mode.
Also, read – How To Start An E-commerce Store With WooCommerce?
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Learn The Management Of Your WordPress Website
This set of step-by-step tutorials will help you get a WordPress website up and running, on your SANGKRIT.net hosting. The tutorial is going to take you through configuring and launching your website, accessing WordPress admin panel, post new content, choose a new layout and everything else.
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Things To Look For In Google PageSpeed To Determine The Cause Of Your Slow Website
Testing your website’s speed on world wide web level it is a good idea to make sure it is not just your local ISP or data connecting that is causing the issue.
By doing website speed tests, you can verify other connections are having similar issues. Free third-party tools can also be used to troubleshoot the cause of your website’s slowness and to make a plan for your next moves.
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Resolving Google Safe Browsing Issues On Your Website
Google Safe Browsing is made to protect devices by showing a warning to users when they attempt to request some dangerous website or download dangerous files.
It also notifies webmasters when their websites are compromised and helps them diagnose, resolve the problem so that their visitors stay safer.
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Importing MySQL Databases Via SSH Command Line On Self Managed Servers
SANGKRIT.net not only offers you Managed and Fully Managed servers but it also lets you subscribe self-managed server option which is only recommended for command line experts. Because self-managed servers are without a control panel such as cPanel, Plesk, or Simple Control Panel.
These self-managed servers do not have phpMyAdmin installed which is used for managing MySQL databases. So in order to manage databases, you are required to use the SSH command line to import .SQL backup files.
This post guides you through importing MySQL databases via SSH.
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How Automatic Backup Works For Managed WordPress Websites?
Managed WordPress automatically keeps 30 day backups and they are active by default on your website. These backups can be restored anytime from your Managed WordPress settings page at SANGKRIT.net.
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Impact Of Network Latency On Websites And The Importance Of Traceroute Check
Network latency is one of the main reasons for a slow website. Sometimes these issues increase the load times of any website. You can test this by accessing the site from a different network.
Traceroute is a tool that allows you to check for network latency. It traces the path from the computer to the server you are accessing.
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Key Points To Improve Your Website’s Performance
Knowing how to improve your website’s performance is important. Popular tools that help you in this are: Yslow, Pagespeed, and WebPageTest.org to diagnose poor Web page performance. For more information on using tools to determine site slowness, see Website speed tests.
The post discusses main issues responsible for making your website slow. Read about them to know how they relate to your website.
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Pagespeed Modules That Automatically Optimizes Your Website
Linux-based Web Hosting accounts at SANGKRIT.net can use mod_pagespeed, which is a free software module for optimizing web pages and their resources for better performance. For more information, see Google’s documentation.
These can be enabled on your cPanel hosting via .htaccess file. For instance, see the following example of the code which you can include in your .htaccess file to enable the Extend Cache function:
<IfModule pagespeed_module> ModPagespeed on ModPagespeedEnableFilters extend_cache </IfModule>
Following functions can be enabled using the ModPagespeedEnableFilters directive:
| Function | pagespeed.conf Code |
|---|---|
| Extend Cache | extend_cache |
| Collapse Whitespace | collapse_whitespace |
| Combine CSS | combine_css |
| Move CSS to HEAD | move_css_to_head |
| Elide Attributes | elide_attributes |
| Remove Comments | remove_comments |
The above-given table also links mod_pagespeed function at Google for more information. There are more features of mod_pagespeed, you can also enable the following directives on your website’s .htaccess file located in your site’s root directory:
- ModPagespeedDisallow
- ModPagespeedAllow
- ModPagespeedMapOriginDomain
- ModPagespeedMapRewriteDomain
For more information about using these directives, see Using mod_pagespeed.
System at SANGKRIT.net is still testing any mod_pagespeed functions not yet listed for compatibility, performance, and reliability as mod_pagespeed is still in a beta offering, so the features might change.
Keep Track Of Vulnerable Updates On Your WordPress Website
It is important to keep themes and plugins updated on your WordPress website as hackers are always looking up for security issues to take advantage of it and plugin developers are not sitting bored to push up some unnecessary update, most of the updates are made to fix security issues. That is why you notice some minor WordPress versions with security release title.
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Save Your Website From Delisted WordPress Repository Plugins
As said by Otto (WordPress Core Contributor), when a plugin is pulled for a security exploit, there is a specific sequence of events that is supposed to take place.
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How To Use cPanel Email Accounts On Android & Apple Mail Clients?
Earlier we have discussed creating email addresses using your cPanel hosting account at SANGKRIT.net. This post explains to use webmail addresses on your Apple or Android device such as your smartphone or tablet.
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Configuring SANGKRIT.net Email Service On iPhone, iPad Or iPod Touch
SANGKRIT.net offers you both cPanel Webmail accounts on Linux hosting plans as well as Business Class Email Accounts for professional use.
Both types of email addresses can be easily added to your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch devices so that you can use your own email addresses on the go just like other email services.
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What Is Increased Time To 1st Byte? How It Affects Your Website’s Speed?
An increased time to 1st byte means your website is running too many SQL queries or non-optimized SQL queries which can also include server-side calls to third-party APIs.
If you’re a WordPress user, there are a number of plugins you can check out to decrease the number of database queries and speed up your website. And if you are not using WordPress then you need to check and optimize your database then use some website cache functionality. For this, you may buy expert’s support via system@sangkrit.net on per hour per terminal basis. Continue reading What Is Increased Time To 1st Byte? How It Affects Your Website’s Speed?
Playing Videos Using Popup Lightbox In Your WordPress Website
Earlier we have posted on inserting links to popup in WordPress, now same thing can be done for displaying videos in a lightbox overlay.
FA Video Popup makes use of the native WordPress Video Shortcode and MediaElements.js JavaScript library already present in WordPress since 3.6+ versions to let you add popup video links in post or anywhere on your website.
You can add links by placing shortcode and when the link is clicked, inserted video starts to play in a responsive lightbox overlay.
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How Text Compression On SANGKRIT.net Improves Your Website’s Speed?
The websites having no text compression are comparatively slower than the websites with active text compression. Hence, if you don’t have text compression turned on, your webpage is going to be slow.
SANGKRIT.net now has this on by default on all web hosting plans, so your if your page is suffering from this, it’s either because of third-party objects, or it somehow got disabled on your web hosting account and now you need to re-enable mod_deflate.
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Identifying An FTP Compromise & Protecting Your Website
There are some signs that your website’s been hacked, including the ones listed here but certainly not limited to:
- You find bad code inserted onto your website
- You find new files/directories with strange names on your hosting
However, there are many types of compromises, each of which has its own calling cards. They may include malicious injections where attackers can place code on your website that can contain malware or phishing content.
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How To Use Common Gateway Interface (CGI) In Your SANGKRIT.net Hosting Account?
Common Gateway Interface (CGI) extends the capabilities of your Web server to make your website communicate with other application or script.
These programs are common on Web servers to interact dynamically with users. Many forms containing web pages use a CGI program for processing the data from the form.
CGI service at SANGKRIT.net supports server-side includes, form handlers, and the hit counters.
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Starting A Budget Website Is Far More Better Than Any Free Website
Hosting your website on Blogger, Weebly or Wix etc is free and they also give you a free domain which is actually a sub-domain. But their free is not free as in freedom. Such kind of website makes you look unprofessional, impacts your search rankings and you cannot make money from your website.
Having a website on someone else platform proves that you are not serious about your online presence. So even if you are just a hobby blogger, you should be serious about your website because you can earn from it.
By spending a little money you can have your own web space running your website on your own domain address such as yourwebsite.com which means that you are having your own web property and not a website owned and rented to you by some one else. This way you become the complete owner of your online presence.
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