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WordPress Website Maintenance

Your website is one of the most important assets of your business or organization. It’s critical that your clients are able to reach your site quickly and consistently, and that the content is trusted. Building a great website on a solid platform like WordPress is the first step. When it’s launched, everything is sparkling and […]

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Posted in Protect & Maintain Your Website
Tagged maintenance, malware, support, WordPress
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Caring for Your WordPress Website

WordPress websites require regular backups and updates to keep them running efficiently and protect from malware. Here are some maintenance recommendations.

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Tagged internet security, maintenance, WordPress

Style Comment Form Submit Button

One of my favorite designers gave me a challenge today: replace the standard WordPress “Submit” button on comment pages with an image.

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Tagged WordPress
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Smush Your Images to Reduce Load Times

Yahoo! YSlow Smush.it™ uses optimization techniques specific to image format to remove unnecessary bytes from image files. It will reduce the load time for your website without changing their look or visual quality of your images.

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Posted in For Developers
Tagged images, performance, web graphics, WordPress
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Improve the Memory of your WordPress Site

WordPress loves memory! Lack of sufficient available memory can lead to slow response and poor website performance. In the worst case can cause operations to fail. So how much memory is enough and how do you increase it?

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Tagged memory, performance, search engine optimization, WordPress
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Deploying Sprites for Speedier Sites

Background images add a custom touch to websites, but can impact performance. Combining multiple images into sprites can add zip to your site’s load time. There is a constantly growing and improving collection of online tools to make sprite creation and use quick and easy.

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Tagged images, performance, sprites, web graphics, WordPress

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