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Setting Up a Cron Job for WordPress Scheduling
By default, WordPress runs background tasks on occasion when pages are visited. This can lead to scheduled posts appearing late. If you’d like to set up a real cron job for WordPress, do the following: crontab -e Add the line: */15 * * * * wget -q -O – http://yourdomain.com/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron >/dev/null 2>&1 Also, edit wp-config.php, and […]
Moving Your WordPress Site
Introduction Here is a step by step guide to moving WordPress to a new server using the free Duplicator plugin, which makes migration a much simpler process. Initialize Your New Server You do need to configure your new server so that you have a new IP address to point your test domain to (described later). You might use our Guide […]
Create Your Amazon EC2 Server Instance
Before you move forward with an Amazon instance, you may want to explore installing WordPress at Digital Ocean (this site runs at Digital Ocean). I’ve recently decided to switch to Digital Ocean because of their low $5 per month pricing and fast solid-state digital (SSD) drives. In general, DO is simpler and cheaper than Amazon. Create Your Amazon […]
Estimating Costs for WordPress at Amazon AWS
Estimating Costs [sc:wpcloud]If you’re new to AWS, let me help you in estimating costs. Generally, you should be able to run your blog at AWS in their free usage tier for one year. After one year, it will cost about $14.64 per month. But, if you spend $62 up front on a reserved micro instance, […]
How to Install WordPress in the Cloud
[sc:wpcloud]In a day and age where people routinely post their thoughts on Facebook, an unlinkable, unsearchable, corporate-controlled walled-“garden”, I’m a big fan of owning your own blog. Not only does it give you full creative control, but it’s free of censorship, gives you full ownership, is optimized for search engines and is fully linkable and shareable. […]
Installing WordPress at Digital Ocean on Ubuntu 14.04
Introduction Digital Ocean is an easy to use, economical hosting option with very fast performance. This tutorial describes how to install WordPress on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS at Digital Ocean in a way that can be optimized with Varnish and W3 Total Cache for optimal performance for only $5 monthly. You can even run multiple WordPress sites […]
Estimate Reading Time
The WP Reading Time provides a remaining reading time estimate as the user scrolls down the page. This is similar to Medium’s estimated reading time.
Configuring W3 Total Cache
Read our complete guide to installing and configuring W3 Total Cache.
Using Amazon CloudFront CDN
Read our guide to activating Amazon’s CloudFront content delivery network (CDN).