Deploying and maintaining Web Applications requires a delicate balance of performance, security, and scalability. This category dives into the middle layer of the stack, focusing on how applications interact with the web server, the database, and the end-user. From configuring specialized headers and SSL / TLS certificates to troubleshooting application-specific bottlenecks, these guides help you move beyond default installations.
Whether you are managing self-hosted tools, SaaS integrations, or custom-built platforms, you will find technical advice on environment hardening and performance optimization. The goal is to provide the architectural insights necessary to ensure your web services remain fast, secure, and resilient under load.
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A Gutenberg block for inserting Google AdSense ads into posts. Vibe coding WordPress plugins: I used Google Gemini to create a WordPress Block Editor block which inserts an Adsense ad automatically after the more tag. And wherever you want an advertisement to appear. Sweet! (-:
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Yes, I'm moving Sysadmins of the North away from WordPress and migrating to another CMS.
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Query all posts in WordPress not having a Yoast SEO meta description yet. You can run this on your MySQL prompt or in phpMyAdmin
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Take control of your server resources by learning how to block aggressive bots and unwanted search engines using .htaccess and mod_rewrite. This guide provides copy-paste ready configurations to prevent bandwidth theft, stop scrapers, and ensure that only relevant search engines crawl your website.
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Out of the box, Umbraco is a well built and pretty fast content management system. However, it is still important you perform some steps to further optimize Umbraco's performance and loading speed.
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In Piranha CMS you can easily extend the TinyMCE editor with additional plugins and toolbar buttons through editorconfig.json. Here is how.
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Add a trailing slash to URL's in Umbraco 8, using IIS URL Rewrite Module, without breaking the Umbraco backend. Forcing one particular URL avoids duplicate content, which is important for SEO.
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The built-in Joomla contact forms component (com_contact) is abused by spammers. I explain how to disable these forms and combat this abuse.
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Using WSL 2 it is pretty easy to install Hugo in Windows, setting up your local webdevelopment environment and configure Hugo to listen on your Ubuntu's IP address, here is how.
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A possible fix for the slow Yoast SEO DeleteDuplicateIndexables DELETE statement that times out on large WordPress databases.
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Show the number of registered WordPress users in a At-a-Glance widget. This is particular handy as an indicator of compromise (IoC), when a hacker has registered numerous new users in your WordPress database for spam purposes.
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Securing the WordPress uploads folder is important. In many hacked WordPress sites, a PHP backdoor is found within the WP_CONTENT_DIR/uploads directory. Often because this is the location where uploads are placed automatically. From the backdoor within wp-content/uploads other backdoors are uploaded to various locations, and scripts are injected with malware.
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How to change Akismet interval to three days instead of 15 days for deleting spam comments using the akismet_delete_comment_interval filter.
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The Wordfence Live Traffic logging feature can cause high CPU usage and load issues for WordPress websites. Here is how to disable it.
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Automatically flush Redis cache when you publishing a post or page in WordPress. Doing so ensures no more stale / cached content in WP.
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Umbraco 7 is a popular, ASP.NET powered, content management system (CMS). Out of the box Umbraco performs pretty well, but there are still some areas you need to tweak and tune for a more performant Umbraco website. Here are 11+ tips.
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Connect securely to your MySQL database using PHP Data Objects (PDO); Here is how to connect to MySQL with PHP PDO using SSL.
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With PHP 7.1, some Joomla, WordPress and Drupal components fail with "[] operator not supported for strings". Here's how to fix this code for PHP 7.1+.
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How to increase the memory limit for your WordPress website, the right way. In this post I show you a correct way of setting WordPress WP_MEMORY_LIMIT and PHP memory_limit settings to improve Wordpress speed & performance.
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How to protect your WordPress from brute-force XML-RPC attacks, because the WordPress XML-RPC API has been under attack for many years now.