Have you been searching for ways on how speed up your WordPress? Actually site speed is undeniably not to be taken for granted and this must be a great concern to you to sustain your web site in the World Wide Web.

Here are some of the effective techniques to achieve a supersonic speed on your blog.

1. Unused Plugins should be Disabled

You need to assess whether you require the plugins that you have installed and determine if they necessarily serve a useful function. Also, you need to deactivate plugins that you have not deleted since it can possibly build loopholes and back doors that hackers can use it to exploit.

2. Install a Caching Plugin

You must have to install a caching plugin to decrease the load time for the blog’s pages. It will also help ease the work on the hosting server.

3. Select the Right Web Host

Since there are many web hosting companies out there who claim to be the best of its kind, you should not be enticed by their claims. You must choose the web host that are reliable to achieve optimize and efficient blogs on your web site.

4. Use Less External Scripts

Having too many scripts installed that come from different providers can help increase the loading of your blog since they came from an external source. That is why it is best to use external scripts so as not to affect the performance on your site.

5. Check for Hacks & Other Exploits

There are many threats lurking just around the bend such as malicious codes that can cripple the performance on your website. It is recommended that you must check regularly for these malicious items to get rid of them instantly.

6. Optimize Your MySQL Database

By optimizing MySQL database on your blog can help reduce the load on your hosting server and can also help improve the loading time.

7. Reduce the Number of Images

Images can help bring out the overall outlook of your blog. However, you must have to limit in using images. Remove unnecessary pictures and images that you think are not necessary on your web site.

8. Use a Content Delivery Network (CDN)

This is a network that can optimized servers around the world that contain all the copies of the data on your web site. This can also help in reducing the time in loading your site. What’s more? This really works best particularly if you have visitors wherever they are in this world since the servers closest to them can help deliver the content faster.

9. Avoid Flash Content

Flash can consume a lot of time to load so it is better not to use flash as your main design on your web site.

Use these simple techniques and you will surely increase your speed in an instant.

This article is written by Dave Cooper, who also writes for tweakwindows7.net, a site emphasizing on windows 7 tweaks.

It sometimes very important to secure our blogs, be it wordpress blogs or any hackers are sure to try to peep into your account. So, let’s check out how you can save your blogs from the hands of hackers. With the help of some simple tips you can easily save your wordpress blog and secure the wordpress blogs from the hackers.

Upgrade to latest Version
There are periodic updates which wordpress brings in so that it is further optimized and also security is enhanced with previous bugs solved. Many of us don’t take time to update with the same, but its very important to update with these updates, it hardly takes time for updating.

Use Lock Down WordPress Plugin
There is a plugin which is called as Lockdown WordPress plugin with which it can lock the users if they enter the password more than 3 times. So, with this you can also get to know that who is trying to try out to hack in the blog with testing of the passwords. Also, most importantly this plugin is for free and takes very less time to install. You can also choose from the number of wrong passwords attempt lock.

Change password
Once in 15 days or in 30 days its recommended to change the password for your account and also its very important to use a tough and combination password which should consist numbers, upper case and lower case combination, alphabets and also preferably special characters so that it becomes difficult to crack your password.

Backup Blog
Always back up your blog and also other critical data like database and settings as if in an unlikely event the account gets hacked, then at least you have the latest backed up data which can be then used later. If you don’t backup the data then it is very risky as this may create a huge loss to you as you will be left with nothing, be is your account or the database and blogs. And also with backup in place, you can restore this blog anytime.

Hide information
It’s better to hide some critical information, so that hackers don’t come to know about the bugs in that version and make use of the bugs as their strengths for intruding into the blogs. Hide your blog’s wordpress version number. To do this just remove the following line from your theme’s header.php – php blog info (‘version’); ?>” />. So, you can easily hide the version name if you are in the self hosted wordpress as in the free version, you cannot hide the same.

Login Securely
Always ensure that you login to your blog via SSL if your host comes with an SSL certificate which is quite common these days. And also never use un trusted network for accessing blogs as this may again leak out critical data which can in turn give a chance to intrude into your account. Also, by default username will be ‘admin’ during wordpress installation, so its highly recommended to change your username as to some other login name apart from the Admin.

Install Plugins Carefully
Always make sure that before installing new plugins check if the plugins are good and working properly, because weak plugins may have unwanted codes which may damage your site or its page ranking and also sometime also affects the page loading speed very badly. Also, ensure that the plugins which are installed are loaded are trustworthy are not which can be known by checking the review.

So, all in all by following the above simple steps you can easily secure your WordPress blog from falling into the wrong hands.

About the Author:
Chetan Bhawani is a dentist, a tech blogger and a web-hosting adviser at the best web hosting reviews site. You can check out the different Linux hosting companies to compare the best hosts in that field.

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Day #10: Required WordPress Plugins For Your Blog

WordPress is one of the most popular and versatile blogging platforms and content management systems used on the web today.

I thought it might be insightful to give you a list of the required plugins.

Akismet

This is probably your most important plugin to use and most WordPress versions already have this plugin installed when you first download WordPress.  This is your basic spam fighter preventing spammers.

Google XML Sitemap

This plugin generates XML enabled sitemaps to help with indexing by search engines like Google, MSN, Yahoo and more.

All in One SEO Pack

The reason why this plugin is so popular because its so simple to use in helping you with your SEO by making it easy to change titles,prevent duplicate content and other optimization options.

Contact Form

This is a contact form plugin, which is simple yet flexible. Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup.

Database Backup

It allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database. You may also backup other tables in the same database.

Related Posts

It gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site.

WP Super Cache

This plugin will help your server cope with a front page appearance on digg.com or other social networking site. Very useful plug-in for speeding your blog up.

WP-PageNavi

This plugin allows a better navigation by assigning pagination to your post. You can choose how many post to be displayed in one page and navigate directly to certain page.

Popular Posts

This plugin displays a list of your blog’s most-viewed posts. This plugin was created by the same people that made the Similar Posts plugin, so you can use the same options to customize

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Google launched the Google Earth Browser Plugin, with the Google Earth API.

According to Google’s blog Today, we’re excited to announce the release of the Google Earth Browser Plugin for Mac OS X 10.4+ (PowerPC and Intel). The Mac plugin is supported on Safari 3.1+ and Firefox 3.0+. The download link should now be available to all users from any Earth API-powered site. We also released a game, Puzzler, in honor of the new Mac plugin. It is, of course, playable on a PC as well. And as usual, it’s open source, so you’re free to adopt the code.