First test to Optimize myStuff wordpress
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
Favicon Apple-touch-icon
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Next the initial WordPress configuration…
Visit myStuff on…
