Introduction No one wants to wake up one morning and see that his or her website was hacked. You don't want that, do you? Lost data, lost money, headache and lots of time spent on your website recovery - it's not the full list of the 'pleasures' that you can get literally in any second, even while you are reading these lines right now (at least 1,250 sites are hacked every hour). I've written … [Read more...]
How To Display Additional Information By Clicking Image Components? Easy And For Free (WP, SVG)
October 18, 2018 By
Intro My previous tutorial on a similar topic has become pretty popular. It covered how to make clickable and highlighted areas on your image easily and for free and use it in your WordPress website. Since this topic is in demand I decided to make a further step so that anyone could take even more advantage of using SVG images on your website. In this tutorial I explain how you can make … [Read more...]
Is Cloudflare with Cache-Everything rule effective? Tested on StableHost 6336 times from 16 locations
July 17, 2018 By
This is the second part of my practical research on Cloudflare free service. The first part is dedicated to Cloudflare free service without considering Cache-Everything rule. And in this article I present the results of testing free Cloudflare service with and without Cache-everything rule enabled (this option is free). Also, I compared the speed with and without a caching plugin used in … [Read more...]
How fast is A2Hosting with and without free Cloudflare Service?
June 17, 2018 By
I’ve heard quite a few controversial opinions about using a free Cloudflare service. The main point that users blame a free Cloudflare service for is that it sort of brings more harm than good. I decided to check it myself. The main thing I tested thousands of times is website speed with and without free Cloudflare service. By the way, this is the first part of the research. Read the second … [Read more...]
Free Elementor Landing Pages Empowered by ThriveLeads Lead Generation and Email Opt-in Functionality
May 18, 2018 By
The purpose of this article is to let you know that a hot free Elementor plugin for building WordPress pages including custom landing pages can work great with ThriveLeads (email opt-in and lead generation plugin). The highlight of the article is how to power landing pages with very versatile lead generation and email opt-in functionality. The kind of combination is a very cost-effective and … [Read more...]
Looking For a GDPR Compliant Hosting? Forget It! (Practical Thoughts)
May 17, 2018 By
Using a GDPR compliant hosting is a part of your business safety strategy when it regards GDPR thing. But you can forget it. Well, almost. Intro This first paragraph of my post was meant to draw your attention. But it’s actually a true statement. And it’s ambiguous like the whole GDPR thing stated on 260 pages. This GDPR stuff in many ways may look like nonsense and an unreasonable … [Read more...]
The Best Free Online Tool To Check Website Speed (A2Hosting Tested 600 Times)
April 19, 2018 By
I’ve picked up six popular free online tools to check website speed and tested my website hosted on A2Hosting (the cheapest Lite plan). And I’ve made 600 tests to find out the most reliable (i.e. the best) tool. And after analyzing the test data I make recommendations on using the particular free online tools which will help you make more precise measurements of your website speed. By … [Read more...]
How to Move WordPress Website to HTTPS the Right Way Easily
October 20, 2017 By
You are a website owner and it's likely that you did not care much about getting SSL and moving your website to HTTPS. But starting from October 2017 Google Chrome indicates non-HTTPS web pages as not secure the following way: My tutorial (including video) will help you to get rid of this warning by moving your WordPress site to HTTPS easily and avoiding pitfalls. With this article even … [Read more...]
The Best WordPress Caching Plugins Speed Test: W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache vs Sucuri Firewall (Cloud WAF)
October 18, 2017 By
I've run 32,224 tests during one month to find out which caching plugin makes your website faster. I tested W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache plugins. They are the two best well-known free caching plugins that WordPress users highly recommend using to make your website faster. And also I compared them to the caching solution that I currently use – Sucuri Cloud WAF (website application … [Read more...]
Highlighted Areas With Links on Responsive Image for Free (SVG, WP)
August 16, 2017 By
Intro In this tutorial you will learn how to make interactive highlighted areas that you can click on in your image and make this image responsive in WordPress. Easy and for free. An area gets highlighted when you move your mouse over the area. Here's an example of the result (this SVG depicts some popular in-depth articles on my website): Move your mouse over the areas in the … [Read more...]