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Wordpress is a very comfortable framework to create a site on. You automatically inherit a slew of amazing plugins which enable you to create many sorts of dynamic sites with statistics, admin site and many other benefits. But unfortunately, you also inherit many problems which come with the Wordpress installation. Just to name a few Wordpress is a heavy framework, instead of having a lean HTML/PHP site, you now have this monster you need to reign in. - I am talking optimization/speed wise Wordpress is very popular (it powers more than 30% of the internet sites as of today), so it is a target to many a hacker. Wordpress has lots of security issues as each plugin is created by a different developer and you won't know where the security breach came from. Wordpress is slow as it does lots of tasks behind the scenes (as it has lots of not-so-needed functionalities). So what are the initial steps one should do when creating a fresh wordpress site ? General Guidelines Make sure you have ...

You have a site, or want to create one. You want your site to uphold all best practices and standards so all search engines will love it, thus grant it a high location in their results. You want your site to be speedy (for your user's sake and for the search engines'). Before putting down my 2 cents, let me point you to a prior article of mine in which I have recommendations for your site upgrade Here are a list of suggestions accumulated over time. Please note that many will view these suggestions as premature optimizations thus should be implemented only after you have many users etc or else it isn't worth it - they may be right... Hosting Web Environment Don't use Shared hosting ! (Not even a reseller account) - they suck and from time to time there are shameless downtimes !!!, You should at least go for a VPS if not something better, and nowdays they aren't that expensive, several educated recommendations Vultr KnownHost Digital...

You have a site, or want to create one. You want your site to uphold all best practices and standards so all search engines will love it, thus grant it a high location in their results. You want your site to be speedy (for your user's sake and for the search engines'). Before putting down my 2 cents, let me point you to a prior article of mine in which I have recommendations for your site upgrade Here are a list of suggestions accumulated over time. Please note that many will view these suggestions as premature optimizations thus should be implemented only after you have many users etc or else it isn't worth it - they may be right... Hosting Web Environment Don't use Shared hosting ! (Not even a reseller account) - they suck and from time to time there are shameless downtimes !!!, You should at least go for a VPS if not something better, and nowdays they aren't that expensive, several educated recommendations Vultr KnownHost Digital...

You already have a site - now you want to upgrade it, what should you do ? Make it fast - preferably not having any server side code (no php etc) just  plain html Use  Xenu  to see that there are no  broken links Redirect your site to the  www  domain Create a  404  page (or redirect to your homepage) Make it responsive ! Reduce the size of the site components Compress images (many online services) Dust off unused CSS selectors Minify CSS Minify JS Minify Html Instead of minifying the above resources (css, js, html) use Google's minifier which minifies all of the above on the fly (also uses cache) and even joins the CSS & JS together so you will have less server calls. Use  GTMetrix  to  analyze  then implement their suggestions Use  Google Page Speed  to analyze then implement their suggestions Don't stop implementing speed fixes according to the above analyses till you get above 90...

Lossless image reduction means reducing a given image's size without losing quality at all! This should be done by default, the truth is that we shouldn't have external tools to reduce size without losing anything because the current software we use to create the original images should apply lossless image reduction techniques - it is lossless so no quality is lost what so ever! Anyway, we live in a non perfect world, so we need these tools. In my post i want to write about the best tools for this task. Requirements: 1. Lossless image size reduction. 2. Support for all file formats (at least png, gif & jpg). 3. Easy to use user interface . 4. Option to be recursive = option to submit to the tool a directory and it will convert all of the images it contains (and all of the images contained in any sub directory etc) 5. Option to overwrite original images. 6. Free After lots of googling around I found the following as the best tools to use,...