The complete guide for maintaining and optimising WordPress websites for optimum performance.

Introduction I have been using WordPress for almost more than five years now. In the post below, I will explain the step-by-step procedure for hardening, securing, and optimising WordPress for best performance and security. So, First things first, Introduction to WordPress What is WordPress? WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) based …

Fix the WordPress.com Jetpack error: ‘Website needs to be publicly accessible to use Jetpack.’

As we know, the WordPress community exist on wordpress.com & wordpress.org WordPress.org is a downloadable CMS (Content Management System) distribution for self-hosting used by web designers and developers. Being a CMS lead developer, Automattic wants its wordpress.com experience to be available to its wordpress.org users. So, they developed plugins like JetPack for WordPress self-hosted websites. …

Using the Sticky Navigation Bar to increase the page views per visit (session) ratio for any website.

It is a well-known, tried-and-tested method to have a sticky navigation bar at the top of a responsive website design and layout. A fixed navigation bar at the top helps mobile or desktop website users have a fixed area where they can find navigation icons and links through which they can browse and navigate the …

How to fix WordPress Automatic Update Error.

Background: When WordPress.Org releases a new update to its WordPress standalone CMS (Content Management System), you may have set your website to get your installation updated automatically, or you may like to do it yourself at your preferred time. But because of server load on the part of your web host, you may get an …

Fix Google PageSpeed Error ‘Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content’ for WordPress Website.

Here is how you may want to tune up your WordPress website performance, i.e., how long it takes to download your website from the server to your visitors’ computer, mobile or tablet. In the era of responsive design, we tend to embed more than one Javascript or CSS file, such as Bootstrap CSS and JS …

How do you change the color opacity or transparency in CSS?

There are instances when you think it would be a great idea to change the opacity of the background color of a div without affecting the text, image, and other web properties present inside the same div of HTML and CSS. Answer: What you usually do is specify background color in CSS using hex, i.e. …

How to enable HTTP persistent or HTTP keep-alive connection feature for your WordPress website.

As Wikipedia explains: HTTP persistent connection, also called HTTP keep-alive or HTTP connection reuse, involves using a single TCP connection to send and receive multiple HTTP requests/responses instead of opening a new connection for every request/response pair. The newer SPDY protocol uses the same idea and extends it to allow multiple concurrent requests/responses to be …

How to enable Gzip Compression for WordPress.

If you want to increase your website’s performance and speed by reducing its load time on clients’ (i.e., visitors’) machines, then this tutorial will help you. Something About WordPress:WordPress does not offer a mechanism to compress the blog’s HTML output. The Apache-enabled web server normally provides this feature. As the Apache Website Defines, The mod_deflate …

How to disable WordPress Pingbacks & Trackbacks.

Let’s Know What is Pingback? A pingback is a type of comment created when you link to another blog post where pingbacks are enabled. The best way to think about pingbacks is as remote comments: Let’s Know What Trackback is. Trackbacks are a way to notify legacy blog systems that you’ve linked to them. If …

Jetpack Related Posts not working or displaying – appearing on WordPress Self Hosted Website Domain or Subdomain, Here is why it is happening & how you can fix it.

With JetPack for WordPress, Automattic is releasing wordpress.com features for WordPress self-hosted websites. One feature in that release is ‘Related Posts,’ where you can activate this inbuilt plugin-like functionality to scan your self-hosted website and display the desired number of related posts under each blog post. This feature helps users discover and read related post …