Thing To Do To Optimize Your Wordpress Blog

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Wordpress today is one of the most widely used and a popular blogging client  .In this world , many peoples are making a good living out of it . Wordpress is well known for its extreme level plugins and awesome themes . 
This is the reason that many blogger today are starting a Wordpress Blog . Wordpress is easy to install . Just you need a free account . Many of you may be tweaking it for better optimization but you may not be unleashing its full limit . 

In this guide I am gonna tell you , how to optimize your wordpress blog . 

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How to Optimize Your Wordpress Blog

The Tips below are can only be applied to Self - Hosted Wordpress blog rather than the default Wordpress.com hosted ones . Now without wasting time , lets start : 

1] Changing the Media Upload Folder : 

If you are running your Wordpress Blog for a while , you may have noticed that all the media are stored in the "wp-content/uploads" folder. Well , this isn't wise for sure . You will find many Sites telling that you must change the location . The Reasons are many . 

It is wise that you should store your media outside the wordpress folder . If you are allowed to create sub-domains than you should create "media.yoursite.com" sub-domain and upload all your content on that sub domain . This will make the address of your images and many more things shorter . Storing media on different Folder also tends to decrease your page load time . However , these option are vanished from the Wordpress version 3.5 , but there is always a solution . You can bring those option back by downloading this plugin - Wordpress Upload URL Path Enabler - Wordpress Plugin.

 

2]Prevent People from exploring your Wordpress Folder Structure 

You may surely not like people viewing your Folder Structure of your Wordpress Site . Yes people can have a look at your content by just using the exploring option . To prevent this from happening , you can add a code " Options All -Indexes" to your .htaccess document . The file is located in the Wordpress Installation direcotry .  

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3] Disabling HTML in Wordpress Comments .

 If you are using Wordpress From a long Time , you may know that HTML is allowed in comments . Commenters are allowed to use the Bold , Italic and Underline Tag and can even use Hyperlink tag . If you don't like this , this can easily be overcome by adding a line of code in the function.php file . You just have to add this code "

add_filter( 'pre_comment_content', 'wp_specialchars' );" (without Quotes).

 

4] Hide the Secondary Wordpress Feeds . 

This is the most important for all wordpress Blogs . Your Wordpress has multiple feeds  namely the feed of your blog , comments ,article and category . These are auto - dicoverable as they are included in the HTML header of your blog  using the meta tag of <link>

Well if you don't like this function , you can disable the extra  feed by adding the following codes -

"remove_action( 'wp_head', 'feed_links', 2 ); remove_action( 'wp_head', 'feed_links_extra', 3 ); "

 in your function.php file   .

5]Fix the Missing Favicons

Your Wordpress Theme may not have all the favicons that are your reader's browser wants. The problem in this category is resulting a 404 when the browser searches for Apple touch icons . To ensure it doesn't happens with your blog , it is essential that you save a  16×16 favicon.ico and a 144×144 apple-touch.png file in your home directory of your self hosted blog . Then add this line of code -

" RedirectMatch 301 /apple-touch-icon(.*)?.png http://yoursite.com/apple-touch.png" (without quotes)

to your .htaccess file in order to redirect the browser searching for the apple touch icons.

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