Posts

Pay per click advertisement platforms is the best way to monetize a blog. When it comes to the best PPC networks, nothing beats Google Adsense. GA is the most widely used PPC platform. It has 10 to 100 times better CPC rates than Chitika, InFolinks, Bidvertiser, etc. Thus, your first monetization option should always be Adsense. If your AdSense application gets disapproved, you should make your website better before resubmitting the application. ...

Caching of WordPress posts and pages are two of the best way to increase the page speed. While most of the WP users prefer using WPSC or W3TC, there are a lot of users who are always in search for different plugins. For such users, today we’ll share a review on the Cache Enabler plugin. The cache enabler is one of the lightest WordPress plugins. It has been developed by folks at the popular CDN service provider, KeyCDN. ...

The events calendar plugin by the modern tribe is the best calendar plugin for WordPress. More than 20 developers have authored it. The plugin is active on 0.4 million WordPress websites. It is free. Let’s find it out why the plugin is so popular among the WordPress users. The WordPress events calendar plugin review To get started, you’ll have to install this excellent plugin from the WordPress.org repository. Once you activate it, the plugin adds event management controls below the blog post editor in the WordPress dashboard. Thus, you can quickly enter detailed information about the event in the blog post. When the post has been published, your event will be inserted right below the post content. ...

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you may have noticed that this site was throwing error establishing database connection or internal server errors last week. The issue which was caused by the Linux out of memory manager has now been fixed, and the site is now live 24 x 7. I’m using this server to host some other WordPress websites as well. Fixing the error was a very confusing task for me. To be honest, I didn’t know about OOM process killer in Linux. If I knew how this module worked, the error would have been fixed on the day the error message appeared the system log file. ...

Since two weeks, my website was frequently crashing because the MySQL server stopped abruptly at random times of the day. This issue started when I was on a holiday. My site was down for several hours. I configured crontab to start MySQL server when the service had stopped. This didn’t help. I enabled query cache to reduce the load on the server. I use NGINX Fast CGI cache, APCu, and OpCache for my sites. Thus, I didn’t felt the need to install a caching plugin for my WordPress blog. ...

Mega menus have become a new trend in the world of internet. They make navigation much easier for the user as well makes your website more beautiful. Mega Menus are created with the help of CSS, JS/Jquery, and HTML. Creating them is not an easy task. Only a seasoned developer with good knowledge of the above-mentioned technologies will be able to design and code a perfect mega menu. WordPress users are fortunate because they don’t have to write code for implementing new features in their websites. They’ll find all types of plugins on the WordPress.org repo and CodeCanyon. ...

The image is one of the most important elements of a blog post. It not only makes the post attractive but also helps in improving the website’s search engine visibility. Sometimes, when you update a blog post, you may replace the image/pictures in it with some other pictures. Many users don’t bother to delete the old images from the uploads directory of wp-content WordPress installation folder. When a site grows larger, the uploads folder may have tons of unused images. These files waste storage memory, and they impact system’s performance. To delete or remove these files, download the Media Cleaner plugin and install it on your WordPress website. ...

Shared hosting plans are suitable for beginners and people with no knowledge of PHP, MySQL and Web servers. In a shared hosting, the company offers PhpMyAdmin, CPanel, Awstats (Google Analytics Alternative) and many more tools to make website configuration or deployment easier for a webmaster. Shared hosting comes with several limitations. Your site will be hosted with several other web portals, and it will have limited resource to use. Bandwidth usage will be a matter of concern. You are not allowed to experiment with PHP MySQL modules. Nor you can switch from Apache/Nginx to some other web server. ...

Email marketing is probably incomplete without a good newsletter plugins that add subscription forms in our WordPress sites. There are a lot of free plugins to add newsletter forums to a website, but the features they offer are limited. For example, the MailChimp plugin doesn’t support popups, and it lacks an Ajax based form which makes the sign-up process fast. You can only change the background and button color with it. ...

Blogging is a type of online business. If you invest money in your WordPress site, your business will benefit from it. In WP, investment is nothing but purchasing premium themes and plugins which help in improving UX. When it comes to plugins, the most important plugin is the one that allows visitors to share blog posts on social networks. Yes! You’ve guessed it right! We’re talking about social media sharing plugins. ...