WordPress Plugins

WordPress Plugins

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30x Faster WP-Super Cache Site Speed

NOT a typo.. 30x is measurable, well-documented, and easily tested. This is what open-source is about. I haven’t had time to post much the past year, I’m always working! So I wanted to make up for that by publishing an article on a topic that would blow your mind and be something that you could actually start using and really get some benefit out of it. This is one of those articles that the majority of web hosting companies would love to see in paperback, so they could burn it.

· Site  ·  RSS | 11:43 AM

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Advanced WordPress wp-config.php Tweaks

The bottom line for this article is that I want to make WordPress as fast, secure, and easy to install, run, and manage because I am using it more and more for client production sites, I will work for days in order to solve an issue so that I never have to spend time on that issue again. Time is money in this industry and that is ultimately (time) what there is to gain by tweaking WordPress.

Note: I spent no time on readability, this is primarily a read the code and figure it out article.. This is for advanced users looking for a reference or discussion and for those of you looking to advance. Feedback would be great if you make it that far..

· wp-config.php  ·  RSS | 3:23 AM

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Vetted – Top 3 WordPress Speed Plugins

There are so many WordPress plugins out there now that I wanted to post my favorite 3 plugins for speeding up a WP-Powered blog. These are the 3 plugins that I install for pretty much all of my WP-Powered sites, which I run about 300 now. They work together to provide a very optimized blog for speed.

DB-Cache Reloaded does something entirely different, it saves the mysql queries that are made to the WP-database, as well as the mysql results to static files, and then through php serves those cached-files instead of re-querying the mysql database. Most mysql databases are stored on separate servers, and although many are on the same local network there is a limit to how many queries, and how many connections can take place.

So DB-Cache Reloaded basically makes WP-Super Cache work alot faster when generating the cache files, and DB-Cache Reloaded helps in a number of areas un-related to WP-Super Cache, like in the admin panel. And DB-Cache without WP-Super-Cache is a joke because it still uses the application-level and php for everything. Gotta use both (or just WPSC).

· cache  ·  RSS | 2:14 PM

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An AskApache Plugin Upgrade to Rule them All

So my blog as been rather quiet for almost a year now, and very few updates if any have been released for my Password Protection PLugin, my Google 404 Plugin, and definately not for my AskApache CrazyCache plugin, which I will be releasing last… So for all of you who’ve helped me out by sending me suggestions and notifying me of errors and sticking with it… Just wanted to say sorry about that, and thanks for all the great ideas.. Well, I’ve been sticking with it as well believe it our not. I manage to get free days once in a while, and then its time to jam.

· Google 404 Plugin  ·  RSS | 1:59 PM

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AskApache Debug Viewer Plugin for WordPress

The story behind this plugin is sorta wack, but in a good way :). While doing tons of security research on permissions, authorization, access, etc.. for the Password Protection plugin (still being worked on), I needed to have unheard of debugging capabilities while working on the plugin on the various websites, webhosts, and test servers that I use to test in different environments. So I hacked together a bunch of php code that helped me debug, actually I pretty much went overkill and tried to get as much debugging info as programmatically possible, and it ended up being so much code that I took it out of my Password Protection code and made it its own plugin.

· debug  ·  RSS | 11:53 PM

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Password Protection Plugin Status

Enumerating Permissions can be Annoying

Don’t ask me how because I won’t tell you, but on one of the hosts I was testing on that did not allow direct access I was able to get the Apache server running as dhapache to erroneously write a file into my users blog directory. This is a big security no-no and I now have my .htaccess file written into the blog directory where it should go, but instead of my php script’s user having write access to the file so I can modify it, its owned by dhapache! Because the file is owned by dhapache I shouldn’t even be allowed to know it exists, but there it is. So the next step was to try and take ownership of the .htaccess file so that I could modify it. I tried and tried but was unsuccessful, I couldn’t modify it so that was another dead end. Actually it took me awhile to figure out how to remove the file from my directory. Being that it was owned by dhapache I couldn’t delete or modify it using my php process or even through ftp/ssh! Sysadmins regularly run find commands that search the servers for any files owned by dhapache that should not be there as this is a big red flag that someone has found a way to manipulate dhapache which could potentially lead to modifying dhapache-owned server config files, which sometimes is all it takes to hack your website and server.. Luckily I was able to delete it by basically running the hack again to overwrite the file.

· Status  ·  RSS | 1:39 PM

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.htaccess Plugin Blocks Spam, Hackers, and Password Protects Blog

Well what can I say, other than this is sooo DOPE! Here is a list of the modules this plugin (version 4.7 unreleased) will automatically detect. I compiled the list myself using every module included with any default Apache installation for ALL the versions listed below, 1.3 to 2.2+

Want to know something else I’m including in this plugin? For each and every module that is detected, this plugin can then detect ALL of the modules .htaccess Directives! For instance, RewriteRule, AccessFileName, AddHandler, etc.. are each a directive belonging to a module that is allowed to be used from within .htaccess files.

Talk about sick.. these tricks have the diamond disease!

· Protects  ·  RSS | 10:18 AM

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New Version of Password Protection Plugin

4.6 just released…. Check It Out.

:p

RSS | 9:08 AM

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SEO Boost from Google 404 Plugin

1 minute Install!
Turns every 404 Not Found error into a SEO traffic generating event! Now you have many unique users with unique IP addresses and cookies searching your blog on all of the Google Indexes… Sweet!

«Take My 404 for a Test-Drive

RSS | 11:11 AM

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Crazy Cache WordPress Plugin Released

A WordPress plugin that caches your entire blog for WP-Cache, I love this plugin and finally released it to the public!

RSS | 1:25 AM

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AskApache Password Protection, For WordPress

AskApache Password Protect adds some serious password protection to your WordPress Blog. Not only does it protect your wp-admin directory, but also your wp-includes, wp-content, plugins, etc. plugins as well. Imagine a HUGE brick wall protecting your frail .php scripts from the endless attacks of automated web robots and password-guessing exploit-serving scripts.

· WordPress  ·  RSS | 9:02 AM

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Update: AskApache Password Protect Plugin

WordPress plugin gives you control over HTTP Basic Authentication for your WordPress blog which among other things, stops most automated hacking attempts and exploits being attempted, cutting down on the number of requests, connections, and mysql queries for all WordPress blogs on the Internet.

· wordpress  ·  RSS | 10:51 AM

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Search Engine Verify Plugin Updated

This plugin has been updated for WordPress 2.5 and includes more options to get your site indexed by Google and Yahoo.

· meta  ·  RSS | 3:51 AM

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Firefox Adsense WordPress Plugin

If your WordPress blog uses AdSense, and you love Firefox you will love this plugin. When a user downloads and installs Firefox through your referral, we’ll credit your account with up to $1.00 (more details).

· google  ·  RSS | 8:33 PM

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Redirecting RSS to Feedburner

FeedBurner is so RAD! I love it. Here’s an alternative method to redirect scrapers and feed requests to your feedburner url, in my case, I use Branding by feedburner, which is so hot, taking advantage of CNAMEs in your DNS record.

· feedburner  ·  RSS | 8:05 PM

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WordPress Plugin for Apache .htaccess Security

1. gzip’s previous .htaccess file and sends it as an attachment to the logged in users email account along with password user setup.
2. Now also works for sites running on SSL (PHP version >4.3.0)
3. Rewrote the security module code in the form of snort, nessus, and mod_security rules and signatures
4. Added a *real* check to see if mod_rewrite is installed
5. Added Modules that remove directoryindexes
6. Much more on the way..

· htpasswd  ·  RSS | 5:17 PM

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Boost SEO, Drive Traffic with the 404 Error Page Plugin

The best (so far) AskApache Plugin is now even bestester! Turns every 404 Not Found error on your blog into a search engine optimized, traffic driving event!

· wordpress  ·  RSS | 2:06 AM

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WordPress What Is This Plugin

It shows a semi-transparent box on the document you are viewing that tells you if its a page, single, feed, category, etc..

· is_time  ·  RSS | 8:12 PM

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Tips on Writing WordPress Plugins

Thought I’d give you all the tips and tricks that I’ve learned and use when developing WordPress plugins.. which can be quite fun!

RSS | 1:50 PM

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Updated: AskApache Search Engine Verify

I just updated the AskApache Search Engine Verify Plugin for WordPress. Short and Sweet, it won’t slow down your blog at all, except for the additional crawling of your site by Slurp and Googlebot.

· googlebot  ·  RSS | 5:44 PM

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