Hostdog - WordPress https://www.hostdog.eu/taxonomy/term/3 en Dashboard and settings, first steps on a new WordPress installation https://www.hostdog.eu/blog/basic-wordpress-settings <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Below you will find some instructions and tips for the initial installation of WordPress as you may have completed for example by using a autoinstaller (like <a href="https://www.hostdog.eu/softaculous" title="Softaculous applications">Softaculous</a>) in a <a href="https://www.hostdog.eu/product/web-hosting" title="Web Hosting">shared webhosting plan</a> or a <a href="https://www.hostdog.eu/product/ssd-web-hosting" title="SSD Hosting"><strong>SSD hosting</strong></a> plan.</p> <h2>The Control Panel</h2> <p><img alt="WordPress control panel dashboard page" src="https://www.hostdog.eu/sites/default/files/wordpress-control-panel-dashboard.png" style="height:369px; width:675px" title="WordPress control panel dashboard page" /></p> <p>When you log in to Wordpress admin, you will be redirected to the Dashboard of Control panel. From there you can see a lot of informations like how many new comments waiting for approval, how many posts, pages, comments are posted etc. From dashboard you can use the QuickPress tool to create a new post fast without using many from the features that are offered. You can chose what you want to see in your control panel dashboard from Screen options menu which is located at the the top right corner of your screen.</p> <p>In the center of the dashboard screen you will find informations (which are enabled from screen options) like recent comments, "Right now", recent drafts etc. Many plugins have their own dashboard widgets like those who inform you about your website traffic.</p> <p>In the top of each page in control panel you will find the admin bar. From there you can add new content to your blog, get notifications for new updates and access admin panel or frontpage.</p> <p>In the left of your screen is located the control panel sidebar menu. In this menu are located all the options and features of wordpress and its plugins that can be edited.</p> <h2>General settings of WordPress</h2> <p><img alt="WordPress general settings page" src="https://www.hostdog.eu/sites/default/files/wordpress-general-settings.png" style="height:555px; width:675px" title="WordPress general settings page" /></p> <p>From sidebar menu, navigate to Settings -&gt; General. From general settings page you can change your website title and subtitle. In case you installed wordpress in a folder of your root domain you can set the root domain to the your homepage. ATTENTION! changing Site address field might brake your installation. This must be only done if you know what to do and after reading section <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory" title="WordPress documentation" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Giving Wordpress its own directory</a> in the official Wordpress documentation.</p> <p>In the next field you can set your email address where you wish to receive email nofications (in example when a new comment is waiting approval, when a new member registers in your website etc).</p> <p>If you want to enable multiuser website, you must enable the "anyone can register" option. And set the default role of the newly registered members.</p> <p>At the end of general settings page you can find a few options about dates. Set your timezone, the date format you wish to be appeared, and the time format.</p> <h2>Writing and reading settings</h2> <h3>Writing settings in WordPress</h3> <p><img alt="WordPress writing settings page" src="https://www.hostdog.eu/sites/default/files/wordpress-writting-settings.png" style="height:636px; width:675px" title="WordPress writing settings page" /></p> <p>In writting settings page you can set the default post category and post format. You can also chose if you like to use emoticons and which update services must be notified when you create a new post. Finally, if you wish you can use the post vie email function, to create new posts by sending an email.</p> <h3>Reading settings in WordPress</h3> <p><img alt="WordPress reading settings page" src="https://www.hostdog.eu/sites/default/files/wordpress-reading-settings.png" style="height:511px; width:675px" title="WordPress reading settings page" /></p> <p>Wordpress is not only a blog platform. If you want to change your home page in a static page you can set this from Reading settings page (Settings -&gt; Reading). From this page you can also set the maximum number of posts will be displayed in archive pages. And how your feeds will be displayed.</p> <h2>Discussion (comments) settings</h2> <p><img alt="WordPress discussion comments settings page" src="https://www.hostdog.eu/sites/default/files/wordpress-discussion-settings.png" style="height:405px; width:675px" title="WordPress discussion comments settings page" /></p> <p>In this page you will find a lot of options and features about the commenting system in wordpress. You can choose if you like, by default, to receive comments and pingbacks in your posts, and if they will be autoapproved or not. You can ban emails, IPs, names or just words that you don't like.</p> <h2>Media Settings</h2> <p>In media settings page you can change the values of default image sizes that wordpress offers and choose if you wish your uploaded files to be organized into month and year folders.</p> <h2>Wordpress url structure (Permalink settings)</h2> <p><img alt="WordPress url structure permalinks settings page" src="https://www.hostdog.eu/sites/default/files/wordpress-permalink-settings.png" style="height:582px; width:675px" title="WordPress url structure (permalinks) settings page" /></p> <p><strong>One of the most important WordPress feature is ability to use seo friendly urls without the use of any external plugin.</strong> In the permalink settings page you can set how you like your post urls to be displayed. If you like, you can use custom url names for categories and tags.</p> <p>As you see WordPress core offers a complete administration panel. In this post we only saw the basic settings for a WordPress installation and in future posts we will see how wordpress works and its terminology (pages, tags, plugins etc).</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-screenshots field-type-image field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Screenshots:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="https://www.hostdog.eu/sites/default/files/wordpress-control-panel-dashboard.png" width="1200" height="639" alt="WordPress control panel dashboard page" title="WordPress control panel dashboard page" /></div><div class="field-item odd"><img src="https://www.hostdog.eu/sites/default/files/wordpress-general-settings.png" width="1123" height="850" alt="WordPress general settings page" title="WordPress general settings page" /></div><div class="field-item even"><img src="https://www.hostdog.eu/sites/default/files/wordpress-writting-settings.png" width="1051" height="794" alt="WordPress writing settings page" title="WordPress writing settings page" /></div><div class="field-item odd"><img src="https://www.hostdog.eu/sites/default/files/wordpress-reading-settings.png" width="714" height="556" alt="WordPress reading settings page" title="WordPress reading settings page" /></div><div class="field-item even"><img src="https://www.hostdog.eu/sites/default/files/wordpress-discussion-settings.png" width="1033" height="577" alt="WordPress discussion comments settings page" title="WordPress discussion comments settings page" /></div><div class="field-item odd"><img src="https://www.hostdog.eu/sites/default/files/wordpress-permalink-settings.png" width="923" height="700" alt="WordPress url structure permalinks settings page" title="WordPress url structure permalinks settings page" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above clearfix"><h3 class="field-label">Tags: </h3><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-0"><a href="https://www.hostdog.eu/taxonomy/term/3">WordPress</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-1"><a href="https://www.hostdog.eu/tags/tutorial">tutorial</a></li></ul></div> Thu, 19 Dec 2013 14:24:45 +0000 ploupas 661 at https://www.hostdog.eu Wordpress optimization https://www.hostdog.eu/blog/wordpress-optimization <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Wordpress is the most popular CMS today, the main reason for it's big success is the ease of use and the very big community that supports it. However, one can quite frequently come up with a website based on Wordpress that even it isn't too big or filled with functions it remains slow to load. Something also affecting SEO, as a website's loading time is a SEO factor. <strong>How to make your Wordpress site faster?</strong> You will find below some tips and suggestions for Wordpress optimization: <strong>Server: As we mentioned before, MySQL optimization is very important for websites no matter what CMS they are using. <a href="https://www.hostdog.eu/blog/optimizing-mysql-database-using-mysqltunerpl" title="MySQL optimization using mysqltuner.pl script">More about MySQL optimization</a> PHP should be set up so it doesn't waste RAM memory, especially more than a Wordpress page needs to load. (Basic rule of thumb is that the heaviest page of Wordpress is the admin panel) Additionaly there are options, therefore differences, between implementations (CGI, FastCGI κλπ) while of course the new version of PHP 5.4 has to offer significant improvement in performance. Also big part to PHP performance is acceleration (APC, eAccelerator, XCache) which save the executable file of PHP instead of reading and parsing php files in every page view request. Allong with PHP acceleration/caching there is the option of caching MySQL's resultswith a memcache server. Finally, it is important to optimize as much as you can you web server (Apache, Nginx) in order to get the best of server resources in every request instead of wasting them due to a misconfiguration or a default that doesn't meet you requirements. <strong>Offloading services: Static files <a href="https://www.hostdog.eu/blog/how-improve-my-websites-load-time-part-1" title="Web site Optimization to load faster">here</a>, can be transferred to a different server if available. Offloading the feed (quite expensive process for the server) to a service like FeedBurner, especially if you have many subscribers it is the best solution. Also using a Content Delivery Network (CDN) for static files and especially for images, it is a necessary step for high traffic web sites on shared hosting. <strong>Caching: As we mentioned to the above article about static files, we have the option to offer cached results in application level (Wordpress), browser level and Web Server level. Using a plugin for caching like <a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/" rel="nofollow" title="W3 Total Cache">W3 Total Cache (W3TC)</a>, takes over for you all of the above through a nice and explanatory menu. <strong>Wordpress: The highest complexity in optimization can be found in the same the application itself in our case Wordpress. First of all we need to remove all unused plugins, they are not only taking space without a reason but they constitute a security risk even inactive. Then we verify that our images are είναι optimized in size (Important: we serve our images in the size we are using them in a page, we don't serve for example: a 100x100px image and we resize it after with HTML attributes to 50x50) One more thing is the total number of files usually css and javascript we use, ideally we should have only one .css and .js file and minified as well. At this point W3TC plugin and/or <a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-minify/" rel="nofollow" title="WP Minify">WP Minify</a> can help. Also for those need even more Wordpress optimization you can reduce and optimize queries. Many Wordpress themes Wordpress use complex and/or too many queries and can be replaced by simpler. While variables can be hardcoded (be written to files as text instead of variables) in our themes. This means that you will have to edit after every change you make to your site, but in the case of variables that are here to stay, like Title or site description, it seems to be another good spot to optimize. </strong></strong></strong></strong></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above clearfix"><h3 class="field-label">Tags: </h3><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-0"><a href="https://www.hostdog.eu/taxonomy/term/3">WordPress</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-1"><a href="https://www.hostdog.eu/tags/optimization">optimization</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-2"><a href="https://www.hostdog.eu/tags/wordpress-optimization">wordpress optimization</a></li></ul></div> Mon, 27 May 2013 09:55:28 +0000 ploupas 362 at https://www.hostdog.eu Simple SEO Slideshow - Wordpress https://www.hostdog.eu/blog/simple-seo-slideshow-wordpress <div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="https://www.hostdog.eu/sites/default/files/styles/basic_680/public/field/image/screenshot-1.png?itok=H_V_eNeX" width="252" height="543" alt="Simple SEO Slideshow for wordpress" title="Simple SEO Slideshow for wordpress" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Το Simple SEO Categories Posts is a <a href="http://www.wordpress.org" target="_blank" title="Wordpress">Wordpress</a> widget developed by <a href="https://www.hostdog.eu" title="web hosting in Europe by hostdog">Hostdog</a>, that will create a slideshow from a post/page media gallery.</p><p><strong>Usage</strong></p><p>Create a post or a page and create a gallery via the media gallery. You do not have to insert the gallery into your post. You may just close the media gallery widow after you have added the desired images to it.<br />You may want to fill the fields "Title" (shows as Caption), "Descreption" (shows next to title as Caption) and "Custom Link" (creates a link to the Caption).<br />Then you may save the post/page.<br />Next step is to add the widget "Post/Page Slideshow" to your available sidebar and fill its field.</p><p><strong>Available options</strong></p><ul><li><strong>Title</strong> (widget title)</li><li><strong>Page/Post ID</strong> (the post/page ID)</li><li><strong>Delay until next slide</strong> (How long will it take for the next image to show)</li><li><strong>Height of your slideshow</strong> (slideshow height)</li><li><strong>Show or not navigation bullets</strong></li><li><strong>Show or not navigation arrows</strong></li><li><strong>Show or not the caption</strong></li><li><strong>Bullets Position</strong></li><li><strong>Caption Position</strong></li><li><strong>Exclude Images by ID</strong></li></ul><p><strong>How it works</strong></p><p>At first the plugin loads only the first image. Then it reads fro a seperate div the links to the rest of the images that it created. The benefits are a fast loading webpage and search engine indexed image of the slideshow.</p><p>The code is <a href="http://validator.w3.org/" target="_blank" title="w3c validator">W3C</a> valid.</p><p>It has been tested under <a href="http://www.wordpress.org" target="_blank" title="Wordpress">Wordpress</a> v.3.5 but it should be ok for all v3.x.</p><p>For new features please post at the plugin forum at Wordpress.org</p><p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-seo-slideshow/" target="_blank" title="Simple SEO Slideshow Plugin for Wordpress">Download Simple SEO Slideshow for Wordpress</a></p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-screenshots field-type-image field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Screenshots:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="https://www.hostdog.eu/sites/default/files/screenshot-2.png" width="680" height="225" alt="Simple SEO Slideshow editor plugin for wordpress" title="Simple SEO Slideshow editor plugin for wordpress" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above clearfix"><h3 class="field-label">Tags: </h3><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-0"><a href="https://www.hostdog.eu/taxonomy/term/3">WordPress</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-1"><a href="https://www.hostdog.eu/tags/wordpress-plugin">wordpress plugin</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-2"><a href="https://www.hostdog.eu/tags/wordpress-slideshow">wordpress slideshow</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-3"><a href="https://www.hostdog.eu/tags/wordpress-slideshow-widget">wordpress slideshow widget</a></li></ul></div> Tue, 14 Aug 2012 03:17:46 +0000 hostdog 86 at https://www.hostdog.eu