Adding a nofollow tag on an external link in WordPress is easy, even site-widely. Add a plugin like WP Nofollow Post, you are all set to go. However, it’s not so clear how you can add a nofollow attribute to a link on the navigation menu. Here is how you […]
WordPress has two settings used to keep track of the site, WordPress Address (WP_HOME) to tell how to reach the home page and Site Address (WP_SITEURL) used when the home page is set to be different from the installation directory. These are also the settings you need to change when you need […]
When you do WP_Query in WordPress, orderby is your friend to get things in order. It’s the argument passed on to tell MySQL server which column to sort on when it’s creating the Order By clause. It’s pretty straightforward to get only one column sorted but things will get a bit […]
A Swap Space is a space on a hard disk used as the virtual memory extension of a computer’s real memory. Having a swap space enabled allows your computer’s operating system to pretend that you have more RAM than you actually installed, only being used mainly when there is no […]
Monitoring CPU usage is one of the important tasks in computing. Even though checking out the CPU usage on a Linux system isn’t as straightforward or user-friendly as on Windows, there are still various utilities available for you to use. Top Among all the utilities, Top is probably one of […]
The database is the backbone to all WordPress websites, which is why knowing how to back up and restore MySQL database is a crucial step to getting prepared when needed. Here is how you can do it and do it all from the shell command line without the popular phpMyAdmin. […]
I had hosted my WordPress websites on the shared hosting plan for years and finally made the change a few months back. The result, I will never look back. And that’s why I decided to post a series of posts to record this transition and hope to help anyone who came […]
Ok, here is a list of plugins that can take the comments system on your WordPress to another level, no matter which direction you choose to go. Let’s take a look these 3 plugins that work with WordPress native comments system. wpDiscuz Designed to supercharge WordPress native comments system, wpDiscuz is an […]
WordPress is a content management platform originally designed for blogging, which is why having a comment system built in and enabled is essential. As the use of WordPress is wildly spread way beyond only blogging, comments become completely unnecessary and need to be disabled in a lot of cases. But oddly […]
If you have moved your WordPress site to a new domain, updating the internal links and the image reference in the posts and pages seems inevitable so they can all be pointed to the new place. So, since updating them individually is impossible, how to update them in bulk and […]