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Remove Jetpack email sharing service
Remove Jetpack email sharing service using WordPress plugin or theme functions.php file. It's often abused by spammers
Web applications
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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Check WordPress Core files integrity
Check WordPress integrity and verify WordPress Core files' md5 checksums against WordPress' checksums API, using this standalone PHP file.
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Clear PHP opcode caches before WordPress Updates: ease the updating process
Clear PHP opcode caches before WordPress core-, plugin- and theme updates are applied, easing the updating process. Popular PHP opcode caches are OPcache, WinCache and APC. This little WordPress Must Use Plugin tries to flush opcode caches, making your live a bit easier when updating WordPress Core, Plugins and Themes.
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Measure WordPress loading time and queries
How to measure WordPress loading time and executed database queries? During an HTTP request, WordPress executes a lot of queries on your MySQL database. Not just the database queries take time, also loading and executing PHP takes time.
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The WinCache effect: Save with object caching
WinCache's object cache backend for WordPress on IIS cut the number of database queries per page from 31 to 12 and lowered the page generation time.
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Benchmarking WordPress, simple load & speed testing with ApacheBench
Learn how to benchmark WordPress using simple load and speed testing with ApacheBench.
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Tips to speed up WordPress, serve gzip compressed static HTML files
Gzip compress and serve WP-Super-Cache or Cache Enabler static HTML files, to supercharge your WordPress blog!
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Akal Premium WordPress theme XSS vulnerability
This post describes the Akal premium WordPress theme Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. If you use this theme, delete it immediately!
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Optimize(d) WordPress hosting (9+ practical tips)
9+ Practical tips to optimize WordPress hosting - or for any other PHP web application for that matter. Learn optimizing your WordPress hosting
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SSL in WordPress: how to move WordPress to HTTPS? The definitive guide
Move WordPress to HTTPS correctly. Learn the Site Health switch, database search and replace, IIS/Apache redirects, HSTS hardening, and OpenSSL verification.
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17+ Useful WordPress snippets
Small PHP snippets for functions.php or a site-specific plugin: WordPress filters, actions and functions to add the functionality you need.
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Optimize WordPress MySQL tables through Cron, behind the scenes
Schedule WordPress database optimization with WP-Cron.
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Minify WP-Super-Cache HTML cache files: WPSCMin a WP-Super-Cache plugin
The WordPress WP-Super-Cache cache plugin doesn't minify HTML cache files, which I find a disadvantage. Knowing minify libraries, I went looking for an existing solution (why reinvent the wheel?), and found one: WPSCMin. Read on ...
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Always_populate_raw_post_data setting in PHP 5.6 & Magento 2.0
How to fix upgrades to Magento 2.0 in PHP 5.6 and higher: PHP 7+.
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How to add conditional analytics tracking code in WordPress Multisite
Learn how to conditionally add a Google Analytics or Matomo tracking code per site to your WordPress Multisite, using functions.php.
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Add a delay to your WordPress login form
This plugin adds a three second delay when logging into WordPress, slowing down brute-force attacks on your website. But don't blatantly copy from other sites without proper testing, as this post points out.
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Optimize PHP OPcache configuration
Optimize PHP OPcache configuration and make it perform even better. After realpath_cache_size, the OPcache cache mechanism is the next important step to fine-tune. With just a few tweaks you tune OPcache to perform much better
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My WordPress web.config
A web.config file for WordPress on Windows Server IIS. Are you having trouble with your web.config? Here is mine 🙂
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PHP 5.6 default_charset change may break HTML output
A change in PHP's default_charset php.ini setting causes HTML output to break if you try to set a different charset in your HTML head. It also might break functions like htmlentities() and htmlspecialchars().
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Disable WordPress comments (how-to)
With thousands spam reactions, disabling (and removing) WordPress comments is often the only way to go. Here is how to disable WordPress comments in both the WordPress Dashboard interface and in your MySQL / MariaDB database.