Adil
DevBest CEO
- May 28, 2011
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Due to this becoming more of a system administration/technical blog, I thought I'd tell you about some great plugins I myself use to optimize WordPress.
Askimet
Cloudflare
W3 Total Cache (W3TC)
WP -reCAPTCHA (WPRC)
Askiment and WPRC help protect your blog from those annoying spam bots that crawl, and Cloudflare and W3TC help optimize and supercharge your blog for speed. Look at my loading times, and you'll see .
You may also want to look into Cloudflare for your whole site, as it supercharges and protects it. However, if you're looking for more grass-roots based protection, utilize .htaccess. An example of some simple .htaccess code:
ErrorDocument 404 /notfound.html
You may be wondering what this does. ErrorDocument specifies that this code calls upon an error document, '404' is the error itself, and /notfound.html is the document where the 404 can be found.
If you have a certain directory you wouldn't like people to access, you could use the line:
deny from all
This basically denies access to the dir from ANY IP address.
This little piece of .htaccess can be useful:
Redirect /olddirectory
Where /old directory is the directory that you want to redirect to the /newdirectory. E.G:
Redirect /dump
Another nifty little trick is to stop those hotlinkers eating up your bandwidth. You can do this through:
RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^
This piece of code basically stops people hotlinking images, and replaces the image with another. Be sure to replace the mydomain.com with your domain, and the angryman.gif with your own image.
My last piece of code is:
IndexIgnore *
This, when placed in a directory .htaccess file, will stop ANY file from showing in the directory listing.
Obviously, you'll need to read on through google.
~Adil
(Need to update, will do when bothered =].)
Askimet
Cloudflare
W3 Total Cache (W3TC)
WP -reCAPTCHA (WPRC)
Askiment and WPRC help protect your blog from those annoying spam bots that crawl, and Cloudflare and W3TC help optimize and supercharge your blog for speed. Look at my loading times, and you'll see .
You may also want to look into Cloudflare for your whole site, as it supercharges and protects it. However, if you're looking for more grass-roots based protection, utilize .htaccess. An example of some simple .htaccess code:
ErrorDocument 404 /notfound.html
You may be wondering what this does. ErrorDocument specifies that this code calls upon an error document, '404' is the error itself, and /notfound.html is the document where the 404 can be found.
If you have a certain directory you wouldn't like people to access, you could use the line:
deny from all
This basically denies access to the dir from ANY IP address.
This little piece of .htaccess can be useful:
Redirect /olddirectory
You must be registered for see links
Where /old directory is the directory that you want to redirect to the /newdirectory. E.G:
Redirect /dump
You must be registered for see links
Another nifty little trick is to stop those hotlinkers eating up your bandwidth. You can do this through:
RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^
You must be registered for see links
[NC] RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg)$
You must be registered for see links
[R,L] This piece of code basically stops people hotlinking images, and replaces the image with another. Be sure to replace the mydomain.com with your domain, and the angryman.gif with your own image.
My last piece of code is:
IndexIgnore *
This, when placed in a directory .htaccess file, will stop ANY file from showing in the directory listing.
Obviously, you'll need to read on through google.
~Adil
(Need to update, will do when bothered =].)
