WordPress powers a massive portion of the web, but running it at a professional level – especially on Windows/IIS or high-performance Linux stacks – requires specific expertise. This sub-category focuses on the technical side of the world’s most popular CMS: from MySQL/MariaDB tuning and PHP-FPM optimization to advanced caching strategies and security hardening.
Forget the basic plugin reviews; here we go under the hood. You’ll find guides on managing WordPress via WP-CLI, automating updates, and protecting your installation from the latest vulnerabilities. If you are looking to host WordPress with the speed and security of an enterprise-grade application, these battle-tested configurations are for you.
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Vibe coding WordPress plugins: I used Google Gemini to create a Gutenberg block for inserting Google AdSense ads into posts. One automatically after the more tag and add where you want them to appear
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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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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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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.
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Remove Jetpack email sharing service using WordPress plugin or theme functions.php file. It’s often abused by spammers
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Check WordPress integrity and verify WordPress Core files’ md5 checksums against WordPress’ checksums API, using this standalone PHP file.
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WordPress core-, plugin- and theme updates sometimes fail because of enabled opcode caches in PHP. 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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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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Learn how to benchmark WordPress using simple load and speed testing with ApacheBench.
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Gzip compress and serve WP-Super-Cache or Cache Enabler static HTML files, to supercharge your WordPress blog!
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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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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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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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Schedule WordPress database optimization with WP-Cron.
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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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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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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.
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How to display commas in WordPress tags? And why have commas in WP taxonomies?