by Richard W | Oct 16, 2016 | How-To/Tips, Internet
Looking for some new ways to optimize your code and increase the speediness of your site? Here are some simple ways to streamline your site that you may have overlooked. 1. Minimize HTTP Requests HTTP requests are a big reason why a site’s load time can be so...
by Richard W | Sep 5, 2016 | How-To/Tips, Wordpress
In WordPress, hooks are the building blocks for your themes and plugins and are vital for their functionality. Basically, their purpose is to allow developers to make their own custom code (and custom functionalities) to themes or plugins without changing any of...
by Richard W | Jul 7, 2016 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Web, Wordpress
Nginx is a great web server. I am using it on other blogs I owned online. It’s probably the second most popular web servers in used today.. and growing rapidly. Some will argue that Nginx is more resource-friendly than Apache2 and can be used as a reverse-proxy...
by Richard W | Apr 27, 2016 | How-To/Tips, Linux
One long awaited feature that was recently released as part of Ubuntu 16.04 is the ability to dock ot move the Unity Launcher to the bottom of your screen. In previous version of Ubuntu, the launcher was installed at the left side of your screen with no easy way to...
by Richard W | Apr 22, 2016 | How-To/Tips, Linux
Ubuntu 16.04 “Xenial Xerus” was just recently released and this brief tutorial is going to show you how to do an in-place upgrade easily. An in-place upgrade from 15.10 to 16.04 is quite easy. All you need is a stable Internet connection and running...
by Richard W | Apr 19, 2016 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Security, Wordpress
I recently had to install Let’s Encrypt certificates on one of my websites hosted on a Ubuntu server running Apache2 web server. The process was painless and easy.. and this brief tutorial is going to show you what steps I took and what to look out for when...
