In this tutorial, we will use a Vultr VPS to set up a wordpress website in under 5 minutes. Thereafter, we will point our domain name to the VPS and ensure that we have a fully functional website
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How To Set Up WordPress Custom Posts And Display On Page And Post
I couldn’t find any simple guides on how to set up custom posts and display them on the archives page and on single posts. Custom posts are necessary if you want to display two different types of posts in the same wordpress installation. E.g. suppose you have a site which has posts about movies. The
How To Install Centmin Mod With WordPress | An Easy Installation Guide
This guide is a ready reckoner on how to install Centminmod auto installer script, change the mysql password, change wordpress configuration for permalinks to work, enable CSF firewall blocklists, deleting sites etc
Unable to create directory wp-content/uploads/2013/10. Is its parent directory writable by the server?
If you are, like me, fond of frequently shifting your websites from VPS to VPS, using Centos and Ubuntu, alternatively, you will face this problem. Suddenly, when I tried to upload an image to my WordPress site, I got the error: Unable to create directory wp-content/uploads/2013/10. Is its parent directory writable by the server? Well,
WP-PostViews Not Working/ Not Showing Post Count
WP-PostViews, one of the many plugins by the highly talented Lester Chan, is one of my favourite plugins. As the name suggests, it tells you how many times a post has been viewed. You can choose to display that information in the public or you can keep it to yourself. Either way, it is an
How To Track Visitors Coming To Your Site
When visitors come to your site, you want to know (i) what search term or link they came from; (ii) which Country they came from; (iii) did they browse any other pages, (iv) how long did they stay on the site. This information is very valuable. If people are repeatedly coming to your site in
Why Email Subscription Option Is Important
Most visitors to your site land up because they found your site on google or they clicked a link you placed somewhere. They come, they see, they leave and they forget about your site. If the post they came in for interested them, there is a good chance that they would be interested in other
WordPress Nginx Cache Plugin
If you are running WordPress on apache, you have no problem because all the well-known cache plugins like Quick Cache, WP Super Cache & W3 Total Cache work very well. However, if you are running WordPress on nginx, then you have a problem because with the different rewrite rules that Nginx has, the cache plugins
Quick Cache & Nginx
Quick Cache is one of my favourite WordPress cache plugins because it works very well without requiring any configuration and delivers a noticeable quickness with which the web pages are delivered. You can check whether Quick Cache is working by seeing the “source” of the page. At the bottom, you will see This Quick Cache
Nginx WordPress Permalinks
If one use apache, then there is nothing to worry about about WordPress Permalinks because Apache’s mod_rewrite enables WordPress to add the rewrite rules to the .htaccess file. If you are using nginx, then a slight modification is required to be made to the config file. It is very easy to do. (i) Find the