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March 13, 2013March 16, 2013 by Slobodan Manic

Why Portfolio Functionality is Best Handled by a Plugin

When it comes to adding a portfolio section to your WordPress website, there’s more than one way to do it. Before taking a look at three most common ones allow me to explain why allowing a theme to handle content generation usually isn’t a great idea. For those of you already running a website, WordPress…

How to Remove Unused Shortcodes

I don’t know why, but every time I see a WordPress post cluttered with unused shortcodes it makes me think of a really old dude with tattoos all over him. You know, the kind of tattoos that seemed like a great idea back in the day but look really crappy now and would take a…

Password Protect Your WordPress Website Without User Registration

If you’re working on a cool new WordPress project, but you need to password protect it and you want it done effortlessly, then you’ve got to try Password Protected plugin. It’s the easiest way of protecting your WordPress website without any need for user registration.

How to Avoid Google Penalties for Your WordPress Website

With the latest algorithm updates (penguin & panda), Google has taken serious steps against spam and toward creating more usable internet. Although WordPress is not among the SEO friendliest platforms right out of the box, it won’t get you anywhere near the red area of being penalized, unless a human factor gets involved.

Speed Up WordPress with PageSpeed Service or Cloudflare CDN

A couple of weeks ago I wrote this post on how to speed up your WordPress websites. Since then, I’ve tried two more speed tricks which improve user experience and SEO. One is called CloudFlare, the other PageSpeed Service by Google and both are free.

Let me show you what they are and how they do it.