Just about every website uses images. They can be an integral part of your site’s design, a complement to your content, or just there because you want them to be. The problem is, the more…
When kicking off your blogging career you have a number of decisions ahead of you. The first, and arguably the most important, is choosing which blogging platform you should use. Because it’s the foundation of your…
Running a website is much more than creating a beautiful design and posting a few blogs now and then. Hi there and here we are going to transpire some secrets of SEO to you so…
Every site should provide visitors with an easy way to search for content, and good site search ensures users can find what they’re looking for with ease. All WordPress sites include a built-in search function,…
As a WordPress user, you will soon be faced with a huge change in the way you create content. The platform’s standard editor is about to be retired in favor of a new visual editor,…
Typically, most bloggers will decide to do this as they see a couple of limitations on their WordPress.com hosting that limit their website to further grow beyond what WordPress can actually do. Thankfully, migrating your…
Designing a website used to be a task that required a lot of specific technical knowledge, patience, and effort. If you weren’t a developer or designer, your best bet was sticking with a pre-built template…
Media files, including images and videos, are great for adding visual elements to your site. However, this comes at a price, as they hog a lot of your resources, including storage space and bandwidth. Worst…
WordPress is a very comprehensive Content Management System (CMS) that has powered 30% of the Internet websites. While the default installation works out of the box, there are a couple of settings that should be…
There are thousands of tools, utilities, and programs that come pre-installed on a Linux system. You can run them from a terminal window or virtual console as commands via a shell such as Bash. A…
After many years of planning, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) finally went into effect on May 25th. Even though it’s been a long time coming, almost half of all companies were not compliant when…
When creating a WordPress website, your first task is to find a quality web host. There are countless options available, however, which can make it difficult to know where to start. With so many different…
Jetpack is the all-in-one toolkit for WordPress, giving you everything you need for a professional site. It includes the following features: Earn income by displaying high quality ads on your site. Jetpack Ads is a…
You might be producing amazing content, but if nobody knows it exists or where to find it, your work has been for naught. In order to drive traffic to your site, you don’t just need…
Ternimal (not terminal, yes, we also read it as terminal the first time) is a simple, very flexible program that simulates an animated lifeform in your terminal using Unicode block symbols. It simply colors distance…
The WPWebHost team has attended the world’s largest cloud festival with over 6500 attendees, 200 exhibitors, and 250 speakers. Taking place between 10-16 March, 2018 in Europa-Park, Germany, it is an event that lets its…
Memcached – a Web-based massive memory cache just like Redis and Varnish for database-driven sites such as popular Content Management System WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal, that caches the most frequently retrieved data and keeps it…
In our last article, we’ve explained you how to change user password expiry information in Linux, where we looked at different examples of the chage command. In this article, we will elaborate on how to…
System administration involves numerous tasks including managing users/groups and under user management, some of the minor tasks involved are adding, modifying, suspending, or deactivating user accounts, and many more. This article will explain one of…
Assuming you have two files or you have just created a new file and want it to have the same permissions and ownership of an older file. In this article, we will show you how…
The confusion of WordPress.com vs WordPress.org is always there. If you are just starting out to explore WordPress, often this will be the question that pops up. That’s the reason you landed on this blog…
Are you fed up of viewing congested command output or file content on the terminal. This short article will demonstrate how to display command output or a file content in a much clear “columnated” format….
In an earlier article, we have explained to you the difference between sudo and su commands in Linux. These are two important commands used to implement security in Linux, in regards to user management policy…
Usually, on a Linux mail server, over the time the size of /var/spool/mail/root file can increase considerably do to various programs, services and daemons that are configured by default to send notifications to root account…
Most applications normally display a feedback using asterisks (*******) when a user is typing a password, but on the Linux terminal, when a normal user runs the sudo command to gain super user privileges, he/she…
Are you looking through an extremely lengthy configuration file, one with hundreds of lines of comments, but only want to filter the important settings from it. In this article, we will show you different ways…
How can I send a messages to logged on users in a Linux server? If you are asking this question, then this guide will help you learn how to do that. We will demonstrate how…
The bash history keeps a record of all commands executed by a user on the Linux command line. This allows you to easily run previously executed commands by using the “up arrow” or “down arrow” keys…
ZIP is a very popular compression and file packaging utility for Unix-like operating systems as well as Windows. While perusing through the zip man page, I discovered some useful options for protecting zip archives. Read…
In Unix-like operating systems, a man page (in full manual page) is a documentation for a terminal-based program/tool/utility (commonly known as a command). It contains the name of the command, syntax for using it, a…
Do you want to find all files that contain a particular word or string of text on your entire Linux system or a given directory. This article will guide you on how to do that,…
Tar (Tape Archive) is a popular file archiving format in Linux. It can be used together with gzip (tar.gz) or bzip2 (tar.bz2) for compression. It is the most widely used command line utility to create…
A website response time can have a great impact on user experience, and if you are a web developer, or simply a server administrator who is particularly responsible for organizing the pieces together, then you…