07Mar 2018 by richard@baronsoftware.com

How to Secure and increase performance on your WordPress Blog

Computer PC Tips - bits and bytes
How to Secure and increase performance on your WordPress Blog To secure your wordpress blog it is an extremely good idea to follow some of the steps located below as well as increasing performance for your readers. SSD-Powered Storage Delivers Content Up to 20x Faster Hosting providers that include high-performance, solid-state drives signal to site owners that the company invests in modern infrastructure and doing whatever it takes to help customers’ sites load quickly. There will be network farms that have older equipment will continue to use that until they replace it or failure occurs.  There are some host providers that provide this service but it may be at a higher cost. SSL Certificates Boost Security Without Slowing Down Your Site Speed means nothing if you expose sensitive data to…
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01Sep 2017 by richard@baronsoftware.com

Do you need to know Javascript ?

Microsoft Development, Rad Studio Delphi Development, Software development Concepts
Do you need to know Javascript ? Web site maintenance or development has led to the need for software developers to know and understand how to write or read JavaScript.  The need for professional JavaScript developers is growing at a fast rate.  Now that does not mean there will be college courses dealing with JavaScript 101 but there is a vast amount of on-line knowledge areas for self taught on how to use JavaScript. The beauty of JavaScript is that you do not need a degree where it is a free technology that requires no installation and no configuration.  You can easily open up a HTML page and quickly write a function to send out the famous "Hello World!" Hello World Sample <!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> <body> <p>Simple JavaScript</p> <script> alert(…
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24Mar 2016 by richard@baronsoftware.com

Sitemap for web crawlers

Computer PC Tips - bits and bytes, Software development Concepts
What is a Sitemap ? A site map (or sitemap) is a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or users. It can be either a document in any form used as a planning tool for Web design, or a Web page that lists the pages on a Web site, typically organized in hierarchical fashion. Why would you need a sitemap for your web site is usually a reasonable question for any web designer.  A sitemap is a quick access point that allows the visitors on your web site to see the hierarchy of your website and pages in a single glance.   Your web designer tool kits usually provide a method to generate a sitemap from the current set of available pages which will be constantly…
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19Feb 2016 by richard@baronsoftware.com

How to fix a WordPress Memory exhausted error on your blog.

Computer PC Tips - bits and bytes
How to fix a WordPress Memory Exhausted error in the Cache.php Many times a blogger will insert a plugin thinking that everything will be fine and you will see the results immediately but instead after activating the plugin you are shown after logging back into the admin area. PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 6253909 bytes) in #### on line ### leaving you with no method of getting to the admin area getting only a white screen with this message. After doing some research the results were 3 simple updates that fixed the problem and brought back the web site. Step #1 - Make sure you have a FTP account with a username / password to retrieve the necessary files as well as…
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