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First test to Optimize myStuff wordpress

March 16, 2014/0 Comments/in Wordpress /by myStuff

Trying to optimize myStuff without the use of caching plug in.

I am using P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) for measuring plugins impact on myStuff!s load time

And also the follow sites to test for speed a
http://loadimpact.com/
https://www.blitz.io/

http://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/
http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/
http://www.webpagetest.org/
http://gtmetrix.com/
http://www.pagescoring.com/website-speed-test/

Using O2Switch hosting that also offers SSD storage
WP-Optimize – To clean up and optimize my DB
The uses of Cloudflare
For Leverage browser caching, I have added the following to the htaccess
Autoptimize to concatenates scripts and styles, minifies and compresses and more…


Header unset Pragma
FileETag None
Header unset ETag

## EXPIRES CACHING ##
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/ico "access plus 14 days"
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/svg+xml "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType text/xml "access plus 0 seconds"
ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 14 days"
ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 14 days"
ExpiresByType video/ogg "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType audio/ogg "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType video/mp4 "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType video/webm "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/pdf "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType application/x-font-woff "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/vnd.ms-fontobject "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/xml "access plus 0 seconds"
ExpiresByType application/json "access plus 0 seconds"
ExpiresByType application/rss+xml "access plus 1 hour"
ExpiresByType application/atom+xml "access plus 1 hour"
</IfModule>
## EXPIRES CACHING ##
# BEGIN Cache-Control Headers
<ifModule mod_headers.c>
<filesMatch "\.(ico|jpe?g|png|gif|swf)$">
Header set Cache-Control "public"
</filesMatch>
<filesMatch "\.(css)$">
Header set Cache-Control "public"
</filesMatch>
<filesMatch "\.(js)$">
Header set Cache-Control "private"
</filesMatch>
<filesMatch "\.(x?html?|php)$">
Header set Cache-Control "private, must-revalidate"
</filesMatch>
</ifModule>
# END Cache-Control Headers

Registered user activity monitoring

March 15, 2014/0 Comments/in Plugins, Wordpress /by myStuff

For monitoring your registered logged in users activities

Stream

ThreeWP Activity Monitor

Favicon Apple-touch-icon

March 13, 2014/0 Comments/in General Stuff /by myStuff

The Fastest way to create the necessary Favicon Apple-touch-icon among many others:

Favicon.ico with http://pic2icon.com/website_favicon_generator.php

Apple touch icon with http://manytools.org/http-html-text/apple-touch-icon-generator/

<!-- Add this to your HEAD if you want to load the 
apple-touch-icons from another dir than your sites' root -->

<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="touch-icon-iphone-60x60.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="60x60" href="touch-icon-ipad-76x76.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="114x114" href="touch-icon-iphone-retina-120x120.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="144x144" href="touch-icon-ipad-retina-152x152.png">

Initial WordPress Security

February 27, 2014/0 Comments/in Wordpress /by myStuff

Basics and easiest

CloudFlare
Do not use Admin or administrator as a username
Use strong password
Login Lockdown like Limit Login Attempts
Keep everything up to date and backup regularly

Additional security

Hide Login+
or Better WP Security (also does file monitoring)
or BulletProof Security
or Wordfence Security
or just WordPress File Monitor Plus

More Secure login using:

Clef
Google Authenticator using Two Factor Authentication
Social Logins

Clef

February 26, 2014/1 Comment/in Plugins, Wordpress /by myStuff

Stop using passwords.
Clef is a mobile app that replaces user names and passwords with your smartphone.

Also whats really cool is with multiple WordPress sites, once logged with Clef, you’re also logged into all the other WordPress sites (using Clef)…
And you can remotely log out from all sites from your smartphone too!

Check Clef out….

Social login

February 23, 2014/1 Comment/in Plugins, Wordpress /by myStuff

Testing a couple Social Login plugins for myStuff

Social Connect login and registration using a Twitter, Facebook, Google, Yahoo or WordPress.com
Nice but might still need a few more line of coding.
Social Login

WordPress Social (doc ) adds social login buttons on the login

Super Socializer Social Login, Sharing, Commenting, Feed and more
Too bad Super Socializer does not have sharing with numbers

Loginradius for WordPress Social Login, Social Sharing, and Social Commenting
Nice features but have to register and eventually upgrade

Social Sharing

February 19, 2014/0 Comments/in Plugins, Wordpress /by myStuff

Been testing a couple social sharing tools to add to myStuff

Share Buttons by AddThis

Share Buttons by AddToAny (pretty good but no Linkedin numbers)

ShareThis (does a good job, it’s missing a widget option if you are not into side bar! )

But there is also Shareaholic

initial WordPress configuration

February 18, 2014/0 Comments/in Wordpress /by myStuff

So myStuff WordPress is loaded, now lets start adding a couple of my favorite plugins:

Akismet – Let’s enable it since this blog will be open to comments
InfiniteWP – A great multi-WordPress management / admin tool which I used to load all the plugins here.
Limit Login Attempts – To prevent some Brute-force attack. I did change increase the lock out minutes and enable email to admin.
WordPress SEO – A must have and you need to configure it correctly including setting up Google Webmaster tools, Bing Webmaster tools and the socials to enable Open Graph.
WP Smush.it – If you dont optimize and compress your images or Imsanity if need to automatically resize huge images

Plugins that I have loaded but only activate when needed

WP-Optimize – To clean up my DB

Initial mystuff.tk setup

February 18, 2014/0 Comments/in Wordpress /by myStuff

Register the Domain Name, add a free email system, add and update DNS records, setup wordpress, Facebook, Twitter….

Register the free domain with http://www.dot.tk
Select “Use Dns for this domain” and the TK free dns service.
Open a cloudflare.com account, and setup the new registered domain.
Go back to dot.tk and change the nameservers to the cloudflare nameservers.
Add your server IP Address to your A record including a A record for www.
Use Outlook.com with the domain for your emails using domain.live.com , follow the instructions and an email address ex: [email protected] and update your dns on cloudflare.
Setup WordPress
Setup google analytics and add the code to your wordpress
Setup Facebook Page
Setup Twitter