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The default WordPress commenting system is good, but some people may want to replace it with a third party plugin like Disqus, Livefyre for better control, spam protection, and administration. Disqus adds a lot of weight to your site, and you should think before using it. I’ve seen LiveFyre plugin on high traffic websites, and it looks great. I’ve not tested it. In case you’re searching for a Disqus or Livefyre alternative for your WordPress site, there’s a good new option available for you. ...

If you have sound knowledge of PHP, CSS, JS, and HTML, you can quickly build good-looking pages in WordPress. It is also possible with a WPBakery page builder plugin for WordPress. WPBakery is a well-designed plugin that lets users create various types of website layouts and pages with CTA buttons. There are around 29 great designs to choose from. WPBakery is responsive, and your site designed with it will look great on any phone or tablet. It supports all types of WordPress themes, and no other plugin will be affected by its presence. It has a frontend and backend builder. ...

Buying a premium theme or plugin is not an easy task as there are a lot of WP developers who have launched a variety of templates for the users. To make things less complicated and easy for you, we are trying our level best to shared a detailed review on themes launched by top developers. Last month, we had shared a detailed and honest review on Elegant Divi and Themeforest NewsPaper. After going through the two powerful templates, we’ve concluded that ET and TF are undoubtedly 2 of the top platform for buying a high-quality WordPress plugin or templates. ...

WordPress is an excellent content management system, but it has a lot of modules that may cause duplicate content problems and many other SEO related issues. Thus anyone using WordPress to power their websites should install an SEO plugin. An excellent plugin will have options to disable unnecessary WordPress features which in turn improves SEO score of your blog. It will take care of meta description, titles, redirects, etc. There are a lot of free and premium SEO plugins available for download in the WordPress directory, but people trust just 2 of them - Yoast and All in One SEO. If you’re confused in choosing between these two plugins, go through the below paragraphs where we’ve covered a detailed comparison of Yoast vs. ALL in One SEO pack. ...

Imagine you’ve installed a WordPress table plugin on your site. You have 1000 blog posts, and only 10 of them has a table. The Javascript and CSS files for the same will be inserted in the header section, and it will be called on all the pages even though you have not added a table. This increases the page size, and it can affect the page loading time. To solve this problem, you can either write a PHP code that will insert CSS and JS scripts in the site header only when required or you can install WordPress plugin organizer. ...

When a lot of users are commenting on your articles, you should make sure that the comments do not affect the load time of the page. If it is affecting posts load time, the user should enable pagination for the same by navigating to Settings—> discussions page or he must search for an alternative solution. One of my tech blog’ posts was having over 150 comments from visitors. The post is well written and has 1500 words in it. Due to a large number of comments, the visitor had to scroll down for more than 10 seconds to navigate to the footer section of my site. The footer is the important section for me because it has links to contact me, privacy policy, disclaimer pages, etc. ...

Caching is one of the most essential and advanced techniques for improving the performance of websites and reducing server resource usage. Sites using this technology are fast, and they yield pretty good results when tested with GTmetrix or Pingdom tools. WordPress has been the backbone of many powerful and established websites with 1000s of posts. To make their sites more powerful, the user should install the best third party plugins (including a caching system). ...

The use of malicious code attacks against web applications and more specifically, web enabled databases, is on the rise and continues to be a greater threat as systems become more complicated and reliant on third party libraries and frameworks. There are many different types of exploits and vulnerabilities associated with malicious code attacks which can potentially threaten the very databases that power such applications. Several areas of vulnerabilities are discussed below. ...

SQL injection has been a method of attacking databases through multiple tiers of application infrastructure for many years, MacVittie (2008). SQL or Sequential Query Language is a database language used to interact with large quantities of data, typically stored in tables inside a Relational Database Management System (DBMS). Each command using the SQL language typically generates a result set of data. An example of this follows: select * from accounts The (*) is effectively used to return (all) columns of data in the ‘accounts’ table. A similar, and more dangerous statement could be issued using the drop command: ...

Shared hosting plans are relatively cheap as compared to VPS or dedicated hosting. This is because your site will be offered around 512MB RAM (or lower) and a CPU, which will be shared by many other websites. Sites that are growing at a very fast rate should always be hosted on VPS servers (use dedicated if you require more RAM). If they’re hosted on Shared platform, their account might be suspended because of very high CPU usage. ...