.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 ?

1 – Redirect WordPress RSS feeds to feedburner with .htaccess
2 – Remove /category/ from your WordPress url
3 – Using browser cache
4 – Compress static data
5 – Redirect Day and name permalinks to /%postname%/
6 – How to: Deny comment posting to no referrer requests
7 – Redirect visitors to a maintenance page
8 – Protect your WordPress blog from hotlinking
9 – Allow only your IP adress on the wp-admin directory
10 – Banning a WordPress Spammer With .htaccess

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