Joomla, one of the most popular PHP CMS, has been used by tons of websites. It is very customizable and extendable through various plugins. Developers use Joomla to build Company websites, directories, personal blogs, e-commerce websites and etc.
Back to few months ago, we showcase beautiful Wordpress blogs. Some readers ask me to collect beautiful Joomla designs, as not everyone use Wordpress as their CMS. So, we decided to collect cool Joomla designs over the world and present to our readers.
If you are a Joomla designer and are scratching your head for a new Joomla design, then you had reached to the right place. Today, we are going to share 44 beautiful Joomla designs that may inspired you.
omy.sg is Singapore’s bilingual news and interactive web portal leading by media group Singapore Press Holdings Ltd.
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December 13th, 2009 in
Tutorial,
Wordpress |
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It’s amazing that in my own non-scientific poll, half of those who work in some technology field still get the term hacker confused. A hacker is not someone who is leering in cyberspace ready to infiltrate their unsuspecting victim’s computer and pillage any information of use from its hard drive. A hacker is someone who looks for ways to manipulate things to make them work better. So when I speak of hacks for WordPress, I am looking at ways to change the code to make the application work better for us, not how to scrape content or steal log in information.
Hacks vs. Plug-ins
There are many different plug-ins available to help manage content on a WordPress blog so why would we want to mess with the code?
For starters, getting our hands dirty with the code of WordPress gives us a much better insight as to how the software works. As we become more comfortable with the source that powers our blog, we gain a better understanding of how to secure it from malicious attacks.
A second reason to avoid turning to a plug-in as a first resort is that an accumulation of plug-ins causes your blog to become bloated. Eventually, this bloat may begin to affect the way your blog loads and delivers to your audience.
Finally, if you pride yourself on going green or you just want to do what you can for the environment, you may be interested to know that code bloat can unnecessarily burden your server’s CPU. Making your server work harder uses more energy. Cooling a hard working CPU uses even more energy. Reducing code bloat saves energy.
Instead of relying on plug-ins, we are going to look at a few hacks that can help better manage a blog’s content. Each one of these hacks requires a bit of PHP knowledge and the ability to upload to your server.
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September 25th, 2009 in
Wordpress |
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As a famous open source and feature-rich blogging platfom, Wordpress requires a stable and good hosting environment. There are a few recommended hosting providers listed on the Wordpress official website. These hosting providers meet the minimum system requirements of Wordpress. However, there are a lot of potential providers that meet the requirements. WPWebHost and Exabytes are among the great Wordpress hosting providers.
Bloggers can actually optimize their blogs to consume less server usages and less bandwidth. There are different ways to do the web optimization for Wordpress, for example you can install plugins to monitor, tweak and speed up the loading speed of your Wordpress blog.
Besides installing the plugin, you can tweak your theme and remove the unnecessary features so that your Wordpress system consumes less resource and load faster.
In this article, we are going to look into 15 different plugins and tips to optimize your Wordpress site.
Wordpress Plugins To Monitor, Cache And Speed Up Your Blog
WP System Health can display basic server info and Wordpress PHP memory usages. Besides these, the plugin will shows the PHP information that related to Wordpress and Wordpress database table utilization status. By using the WP System Health, bloggers can easily detect the Wordpress system misconfiguration and memory race issues. Wordpress blog’s administrators can install this plugin to easily track the system health status and help them easily identify the problem.
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