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[ad_1] Horde Groupware is a free and open-source collaboration suite that offers calendar, notes, tasks, file manager and many more. It comes with a dynamic, basic and mobile-friendly web-based interface and provides unlimited resources per user. It works on any web server with PHP support and most operating systems including, …

[ad_1] Graylog is a free and open-source log management tool based on Java, ElasticSearch and MongoDB. Graylog can be used to collect, index and analyze any server log from a centralized location or distributed location. We can easily monitor any unusual activity for debugging applications and logs using Graylog. Graylog provides a powerful query …

[ad_1] Graylog is a free and open-source log management tool based on Java, ElasticSearch and MongoDB. Graylog can be used to collect, index and analyze any server log from a centralized location or distributed location. We can easily monitor any unusual activity for debugging applications and logs using Graylog. Graylog provides a powerful query …

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When you click on the Wi-Fi icon in the Notification area, you’ll see the list of Wireless network broadcasts that are within your connection range. With high range routers available in the market, the Wi-Fi broadcast signals are powerful and cover a long range. If you’re an apartment dweller, you’ll …

Many blogs and large traffic sites rely on advertising as their primary source of income. This might include Google AdSense, AdSense alternatives,  Affiliate Ads, or Direct Ad sales. The one problem that many encounter is that advertising is a monetization strategy that’s hard to maintain and difficult to manage. Fiddling …

Update: This post was originally written back in 2014. A few hours after this was published we were contacted by various people at Stripe and got our account reinstated. And we have had no problems with them since. Skip down to the follow-up. Why We Chose Stripe We have heard …

JJJ has been the lead developer of BuddyPress and bbPress since 2010. He also worked at Automattic for three years where he took part in the development of WordCamp.org and WordPress.org along with BuddyPress and bbPress. WordPress being open source has been developed continuously by thousands of developers and organizations contributing …

The web hosting industry is unfortunately full of fake reviews because affiliates will say anything to get you to sign up with one of their partners to earn a hefty commission. This makes it really hard to select a hosting company that you can trust. Check out some independent reviews of …

WordPress is an excellent platform for blogging or hosting a website. However, it has evolved into much more than that. WordPress is now a powerful content management system which powers over 35.2% of the web, and thanks to a few external plugins, can handle a variety of different file download needs. …

Crowdfunding can be described as the process of raising funds with the help of friends, family, customers, and investors. This is typically done online via a website or through social media to reach a large audience. If you’re planning to do any crowdfunding of any kind on WordPress, you’re in …

The WordPress HTTP API consists of a bunch of functions that will help you make HTTP calls a lot more easily. No need to fiddle around with file_get_contents or cURL anymore, just a single unified interface. This is awesome for interacting with third party APIs, especially REST-full ones like Twitter, Facebook, MailChimp, …

True customer relationship management (CRM) helps you understand your customers and engage with them throughout the entire customer lifecycle. This is accomplished by collecting and analyzing lots of data. From prospecting to marketing to customer service, gathering and analyzing customer data can uncover problem areas and reveal hidden opportunities. The …

In WordPress, instead of simply adding these to the header, you should use a method called enqueueing which is a standardized way of handling your assets with the added bonus of managing dependencies. Find out how to do it below using wp_enqueue_scripts. How Enqueueing Works There are two steps taken when …

First, why would you want to be picked up by Google News? What are the benefits? The aim of Google News is to filter through the world’s news and make timely news accessible to readers in a way that’s easy for them to read, understand, and put to use. What …

In this article, I’ll show you a great way to share a single instance of a plugin or theme with multiple installations of WordPress – symlinks. What Is a Symlink A symlink – or symbolic link – is a special file that is actually a reference to another file or …

Sidebars are an integral part of the WordPress experience but understanding how they work on a database-level is not at the forefront of tutorials. You can find any number of posts about creating widgets, customizing them, extending them and so on, but how they are actually put together at the …

In preparation, I thought I’d take a look at how HTTP works in general and how you can use native WordPress functions to work with it, opening up your products to integration with Twitter, Facebook, Mailchimp and all sorts of other tools. In this article – part 1 of 2 …

In part 1 of this guide I had a look at the HTTP API in general. We learned what HTTP is, talked about the structure of HTTP requests and responses and how action types and URLs come together to determine what you receive in exchange for your request. In this …

In this article we’ll look at some ways to use the WordPress register sidebar function along with some advanced tips as well! To get a sidebar working in your theme you’ll need to let WordPress know about it first – to make sure it shows up in the admin – …

The WordPress XML-RPC is a specification that aims to standardize communications between different systems. It uses HTTP as the transport mechanism and XML as encoding mechanism which allows for a wide range of data to be transmitted. For us WordPress peeps, the most important part of this is “different systems”. WordPress …

I’ve already shared some of the upcoming features of PHP 7, in this article I thought I’d take a look at some of the bad patterns we should stop using as we switch to the lightning fast PHP 7. And don’t forget to check out our new mega-benchmark of the …

Their main product, The Original Swagway™, has been featured on Good Morning America, Ellen, LIVE with Kelly and Michael, The Insider, The Today Show, Mashable, Wired, People, CBS This Morning, PC Magazine, and more. The hoverboard market is heating up and Swagway is on fire. So why was Cyber Monday …

Q1: Can you give a brief background on your business? I created and operate ReviewSignal.com. It is a data driven review site. I call it that because it operates differently than what we traditionally think of as a review site. It pulls social media comments people are publicly posting and …

In between the software releases, the maintenance team would take over to ensure that everything ran smoothly until the next update happened. It was all very quaint, and an outmoded model for software infrastructure. Nowhere is this truer than on WordPress (WP) sites. Because of the constant nature of the …

However, we have succeeded and will have 7 figures of revenue this year, and we are growing exponentially. Thank you to all the customers that have gotten us this far and will help us continue to grow. Customers from 62 countries spread across 6 continents have trusted us with their …

Travis was formerly a partner at Westwerk and so he knows a lot about WordPress and the agency life. He’s also a really cool guy. Below is our recent Q&A interview with him as part of our new Kinsta Kingpin series. Q1: What is your title and day to day …

The author said: My dislike of WordPress is no secret. I look down on its mess of a code base, and advise anyone with any technical knowhow whatsoever against using it. Is the situation that dire? Is the WordPress core code really so atrocious that you should steer clear altogether …

He’s accomplished a lot for only being 16 years old. Below is our recent Q&A interview with him as part of our Kinsta Kingpin series. Q1: What age did you start getting into WordPress development, & how long have you been doing it? I first got into WordPress development around 13 after …

Other types of spam are more interested in using your server space to send out requests, while some take advantage of users to send over harmful malware and viruses. Spam needs you, but you certainly don’t need it. In fact, when building a website on WordPress, it’s wise to implement tools …

Q1: What is your background, for those readers not familiar with you? I’ve been developing on the web for over 20 years. Sometime between my first website and now, I finished my degree in offensive hacking, spent some time as a youth pastor, and came back to continue life as …

Q1: What’s it like running a conference? Running a conference is a lot of work but it’s totally worth it. It takes months to plan and organize an event that’s just 2 days long. Luckily, I have a great team that is able to pull this all together. Q2: Is …

Q1: Most people in the WordPress community know you from being the Co-Founder of WooThemes. What was that journey like? I think it’s always easier to have the benefit of hindsight in answering that question. At the time, Woo were mostly first-movers in everything we did, which meant that there …

Q1: What is your background, and how did you get involved in WordPress? I studied at Sheridan College and always wanted to become a computer animator, however when I graduated the market got flooded with animators. I took an animation job with a startup here in Toronto, Canada. We produced …

You can find him on Twitter as well. Below is our recent interview with him, as part of our Kinsta Kingpin series. Q1: How did you originally get involved with WordPress? I originally got involved by simply using the product. I had been using TypePad personally and DotNetNuke for projects …

To put it simply, it’s a technology lookup tool that can be used for a variety of purposes. Let’s say you’ve created your own electric car company and want to go up against Elon Musk and Tesla (good luck with that). You’ve got lots of ambition and know that Tesla’s …

You can find him on Twitter as well. This is our recent interview with him, as part of our Kinsta Kingpin series. Q1: What is your background, and how did you first get involved in WordPress? I have degrees in Music Education, Theology, and U.S. Religious History. I’ve always been …

The world of software development changes at a rapid pace. One of the most frequent complaints we hear about WordPress is that it isn’t “sexy” enough for modern developers – it is over a decade old after all. Regardless, there’s a reason it powers 25% of the web: it’s well …

At Kinsta we believe that speed and stability are the hallmarks of a great website. Our mission is to bring you top-of-the-line managed WordPress hosting without compromises. This is why today we are announcing a completely new infrastructure based on Google Cloud Platform. We’ve combined lightning fast PHP 7, MariaDB, …

SSH is one of the best tools in a developers tool-belt. It can be used to set up advanced environments, manipulate sites, use great tools like WP-CLI for automating common WordPress tasks or to access a site when all else fails. In this article, I’ll look at what SSH is …

You have given a lot of thought to your business, but did you put a lot of thought into choosing the best WooCommerce payment gateways? You should. Bringing in sales is the most important part of any business, but it’s just as important to choose the right method for accepting …

As WordPress developers, we often need to retrieve posts, pages and other content matching specific criteria from the WordPress database. Usually, we don’t need to build SQL queries (and often we shouldn’t) because the WP_Query class and its methods provide us with a safe and efficient way to retrieve data …

The average web pages weight in at 3719 kB with images and videos making up nearly 78% of the total weight according to the HTTP Archive. That’s a lot of bytes for a website visitor’s browser to download and render, and the trends all point to larger web pages and …

There is a WordPress redirect functionality built into core which is designed to catch wrong URLS. When an incorrect URL is requested, WordPress tries to locate the correct URL and will redirect the visitor to the correct URL if it can find it. On hand one this is great, but …

Using multimedia content in your blog posts can result in more shares, more backlinks, more conversions, and more of anything else that you’re looking to achieve. The readers will see the effort and they will reward you by sharing or liking your posts. Not to forget that users are getting quite …

One of the most important files of a WordPress installation is the configuration file. It resides in the root directory and contains constant definitions and PHP instructions that make WordPress work the way you want.The wp-config.php file stores data like database connection details, table prefix, paths to specific directories and …

Kinsta is excited to welcome Brian Jackson to the team as our new inbound marketing director. He will be helping us with our online growth strategies, lead generation, content creation, technical SEO, and outreach within the WordPress community. Brian comes to us from KeyCDN where he spent the last year helping to …

Do you have a list of prices on your website? These prices might be for services like lawn care or they may be for software packages. From the tech world to yoga studios, most companies could use pricing tables for better representation of what they offer. The main way to …

HTTP status codes are like a short note from the web server that gets tacked onto the top of a web page. It’s not actually part of the web page. Instead, it’s a message from the server letting you know how things went when the request to view the page was …

Have you ever noticed that your most popular blog posts – the ones that trigger an avalanche of comments – take a little longer to load? While it’s nice to watch WordPress comments roll in if your commenting system is not carefully configured it can really slow down your website. …

If you have ever run your WordPress website through Google PageSpeed Insights or Pingdom then you have probably seen that big yellow Leverage Browser Caching warning. And that is probably why you ended up at this post. Today we will dive into what this warning means, how it affects you, and …

You can find him on LinkedIn as well. This is our recent interview with him, as part of our Kinsta Kingpin series. Q1: What inspired you to create Kinetise? Well, we saw a need to automate what we have been doing, meaning developing mobile apps. There were so many potential clients …

Imagine this scenario: You’re working on a WordPress development project and have a dozen or more plugins installed. However, your site isn’t humming along quite the way you’d like it to. You’ve eliminated all of the usual suspects: hosting is adequate, there are no obvious JavaScript or PHP errors, and …

When it comes to running a successful company, sometimes you are only as good as your tools! Of course, you need talented people behind those tools, but choosing the right SaaS products can help boost productivity for your team, generate more leads, and overall, put you on the fast track …

WordPress is loved by many not only because of its open-source nature, ease of use, and an abundance of gorgeous themes but because its plugins allow you to add different functionality to your website. Thanks to those plugins, you can create a powerful website to suit your needs perfectly without …

As of July 24th, 2018, Google Chrome is now be marking all non-HTTPS sites as “Not Secure.” Regardless of whether they collect data or not. This is why HTTPS is more important than ever! In today’s post, we are going to dive deep into an HTTP to HTTPS migration and share applicable …

President Obama might be leaving office, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have anything left to say. Below in the video he touches on 6 important reasons why people should love and embrace the WordPress community. And of course, all joking aside, just think where some of us would be without it? For one, …

We take security very seriously here at Kinsta and that’s why we offer two-factor authentication for all of our WordPress hosting clients. Nothing could be worse than someone hijacking access to all of your sites! This feature is available in our MyKinsta dashboard and we highly recommend everyone take advantage of …

More than most organizations, enterprise businesses need to maintain a scalable and reliable web presence to remain competitive. To that end, many IT leaders of large-scale organizations have historically looked to expensive web solutions requiring proprietary support contracts to guarantee quality. There is another way, though. Over a decade into …

It’s no secret that networking events can help any business grow. As a business owner, there is no better way to establish new relationships – be it with potential clients, business partners or investors. Events themselves come in many different styles and with a different purpose; from simple in-person gatherings …

We made the decision here at Kinsta to move our entire infrastructure to Google Cloud Platform early 2016, making us the first managed WordPress host to exclusively utilize the platform. In 2019 we started migrating all clients to the more robust C2 machines. By doing this we could ensure a high-level of …

You can find Mason on LinkedIn or Twitter. This is our recent interview with him, as part of our Kinsta Kingpin series. Q1: What is your background, & how did you first get involved with WordPress? While my actual college degree is in education, I spent the first several years of my professional …

Our goal is to set up two WordPress websites which will share logins and the same users. Once a user has subscribed one website, she would be able to access the other website with the same role and capabilities. To achieve this goal, we should be able to edit WordPress …

You can find Kim on LinkedIn or Twitter. This is our recent interview with her, as part of our Kinsta Kingpin series. Q1: What is your background, & how did you first get involved with WordPress? My background was retail management… pretty far from WordPress. I was widowed in 2003 and was working …

It has been over eight years since the last encryption protocol update, but the final version of TLS 1.3 has now been published as of August 2018. ? The exciting part for the WordPress community and customers here at Kinsta is that TLS 1.3 includes a lot of security and performance …

In today’s post we are going to take an in-depth look at WordPress permalinks and URL rewriting. According to a 1999 post by Jacob Nielsen, a usable website requires: a domain name that is easy to remember and easy to spell short URLs easy-to-type URLs URLs that visualize the site structure …

You can find Steve on LinkedIn or Twitter. This is our recent interview with him, as part of our Kinsta Kingpin series. Q1: What is your background, & how did you first get involved with WordPress? I started Zeek Interactive more than 20 years ago to create interactive games. Over those 20 …

The web is constantly evolving and for a lot of business owners this means the need for staying on top of all the changes with Google. If you don’t adapt it means you could get left behind. Google AMP, their mobile initiative to speed up the web, is now approaching it’s one-year anniversary. …

When it comes to security, we know how important is to regularly update WordPress installations (core, themes and plugins), and how long the upgrade process could take to us, especially when we have installed a good number of plugins. It’s commonly recommended to follow these steps: Back-up files and database …

You’ve probably heard the term “premium DNS” thrown around before and maybe you didn’t give it a second thought. Most people know that using a premium DNS provider can help them but don’t take the initiative to implement it, or perhaps don’t know how. On October 21, 2016, the largest DDoS attack …

Sometimes it can be more convenient to work with WordPress on your local machine. Today we want to share with you an awesome WordPress product, DesktopServer from ServerPress, which can make installing WordPress locally a complete breeze. You can literally launch a new development install in a matter of seconds with …

Some might lead you to believe “SEO is dead.” Google that search term and what comes back in return is over 800,000 search results. However, just because SEO has changed drastically over the past decade doesn’t mean it is dead, it simply means it has changed. Businesses now have to …