As you all know WordPress speed is one of most important factors that impack on your website popularity.

The Rule is very simple, your web site load need to be fast.

With simple new WordPress installation your blog should perform well. But with time running, your database will be bigger. Another problem that you need to deal with is tons of new plugins that will impact your website speed.

So the main quesion is what we can do to make our WordPress platform fast ?

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8 fun & useful shortcode functions

‘Shortcodes’ are a feature of wordpress used for executing custom functions by inserting a small snippit of code into a post. For example, my download monitor plugin now uses shortcodes; by entering [download id="1"] into a post, the plugin will output a download link.

So if you need to do something fast and use simple solutions shortcode functions will be ideal for you.

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.htaccess, the file which control the Apache webserver, is very useful and allows you to do a lot of things. In this article, let’s see how .htaccess can help you with your WordPress blog, for both security,functionnality and usability.

Simple tips that you can use for every blog without editing anything in WordPress setup, plugins..

What we can do after reading this tutorial ?

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