https://developers.google.com/pagespeed/

If you have, you might notice that some of your changes take, and some don’t.  I almost went insane until I realized that this page was caching some results, regardless of refreshing or reloading the page.

Solution?  Download firebug plugin for Firefox, and then visit this page to download page speed plugin.

http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/download.html

After installing, you must restart Firefox to enable the plugin.  Once activated, you will notice a Firbug icon on the tool bar, mine happens to be to the right of the home button to the right of my search  bar.

Then, when you make changes to your site, RELOAD your page in your browser and then REFRESH ANALYSIS for the updated results.

Happy optimizing

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WARNING: Make a backup of your original .htaccess file as always.  Backups are GREAT practice to follow.

If something goes wrong, please remove the lines from your .htaccess or restore your known working backup file.

Place the following at the top of your .htaccess file:

The domain names below are just examples, please use the real domains.  The “other-something” domain is the domain you want the traffic routed to.

#### START COPY BELOW THIS LINE #####

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www|ads)\.source-traffic\.net
RewriteRule .* http://www.other-something.com [R=301,L]

### END COPY ABOVE THIS LINE ###

Enjoy the traffic router!

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1) Only use plugins that you need.  Each plugin is an added security risk.

2) Avoid using the user name, admin, on your administrator accounts.  Use a random name instead with at least one number in it.

3) Use strong passwords!!!  CatDog isn’t a strong password folks.

4) Keep your WordPress updated and your plugins as well.

Above all, MAKE BACKUPS!!!!

Safe surfing!

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Add the following text to your .htaccess file:

# M3SERVER.COM PERFORMANCE SETTINGS
# compress text, html, javascript, css, xml:
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript

## EXPIRES CACHING ##
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType image/jpg “access 1 year”
ExpiresByType image/jpeg “access 1 year”
ExpiresByType image/gif “access 1 year”
ExpiresByType image/png “access 1 year”
ExpiresByType text/css “access 1 month”
ExpiresByType application/pdf “access 1 month”
ExpiresByType text/x-javascript “access 1 month”
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash “access 1 month”
ExpiresByType image/x-icon “access 1 year”
ExpiresDefault “access 2 days”
</IfModule>
## EXPIRES CACHING ##

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Outlook Express Email setup

- Internet Connection Wizard

Open outlook, if you dont have anything setup the Internet Connection Wizard will automatically start.  if you do have an email account already setup, then you will need to create a new identity, click on file, click on identities, click on add new identity, that will open up a window to name this mail identity, once you do that connection wizard opens

- Your Name : When you send email, your name will appear in the From field of the outgoing message.  Type your name as you would like it to appear.

- Click Next

- E-Mail address : Your e-mail address is the address other people use to send e-mail messages to you.  Enter the email address you want configure this to send/receive email for.

- Click Next

- E-Mail Server Names : Select POP3 or IMAP for my incoming mail server is a

- Incoming mail server :  yourdomain.com

- Outgoing Mail server :  yourdomain.com

- Click Next

- Internet Mail Logon:  Account name : Enter your username for this email address
Password:  Enter the password for this email address

- Do not check Log on using Secure Password Authentication (SPA)

- Click Next

- Click Finished

- Now lets manually set a couple settings

- Click on tools, then accounts, select the mail tab and then click on properties

- Go to the servers tab

- Look for Outgoing mail server and check the box for my server requires authentication

- Then click on settings button right after that

- Select log on using and then enter your username and password in the blanks.

- Do not check Log on using Secure Password Authentication (SPA)

- Click on OK button

- Now select the Advanced tab at the top

- Outgoing mail (SMTP) port number : 25 is default and will work for most but some ISPS are blocking this port, so use 587 if 25 will not work for you.

- Click APPLY

- Click OK

- Close out your mail program

- Open Outlook Express back up and you should be ready to send and receive email

Happy E-Mailing

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Once we have the server load reduced and your WordPress hosting has improved, we can then work with you to improve your site with use of plugins and other performance improvements.

To reduce your WordPress Server Load, get started today and visit M3Server.com’s WordPress Hosting service!  Get your own WordPress virtual server and start serving your pages even faster.

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Did you backup your database first before working on your site?   Its best to restore IF you have a CURRENT backup, but if not, you can try this fix action.

If you forget to deactivate plugins before a WordPress upgrade/update, your site could break or leave you with a blank page when viewing your WordPress admin login page.

The repair action is to go to the wp_option table in your WordPress database, and find the row with option_name ‘active_plugins’.

To get started, follow the general guide below:

Login via your Secure phpMyAdmin URL with the user name and password of your database.

Find your database name on the left hand side and click it.
Now, find the table named: wp_option

Next, locate the row:
active_plugins

Click on the “pencil” edit icon to edit this row.

The section of interest is the large white text box.  It generally has a few lines of code.

Copy this data and paste it in a plain text editor, just for save keeping.

Then delete the rows of code in this box and click save.

This should deactivate all plugins.  Retry your WordPress admin login now.

As always, we can’t state this strongly enough.  Before embarking on any WordPress management, updates, upgrades, plugin installs, etc, always, and we mean always backup/export your database.A

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule \.php~$ – [forbidden,last]

The second line above should go right under the first line as shown.

This will prevent index.php~ from displaying in URLs increasing security on your WordPress site.

As always, make a local backup of your files before editing so that you can make easy corrections of things don’t work out as planned.

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DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.shtml index.cgi index.php

Meaning, index.html will be called before index.php.

If you have two pages with names listed above, the order of precedence will determine which the server automatically serves to the web user.

The directory index page is what the server displays if the client doesn’t specify a page.  For example:

http://www.m3server.com/

Notice the index page wasn’t specified.

http://www.m3server.com/index.php

Notice the index page is specified.

If you wanted your directory index page to be a specific page for the time being, or permanently changed you do so via the power of your .htaccess file.

Enter this at the top of your .htaccess file:

DirectoryIndex index.html

The change is instant.  If results aren’t desirable, just revert your .htaccess file back to the original setting.

Say for example that your current directory index page is index.php and you wanted to divert people away from that page without changing that page’s content, like for constructing a new page or a seasonal message.  The DirectoryIndex command will be your method of routing visitors to the index.html page, or whatever page you note in the .htaccess command of DirectoryIndex.

Enjoy!

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Note:  Replace my_domain.com with your real domain name.

Notice:  Don’t use smtp.mydomain.com or mail.domain.com, use only the domain.com portion.

IMAP/POP3 – what is the difference?  IMAP service holds all of your files/folders on the server and pushes them to the various clients you may use.  So, if you delete a message on your iPhone, the message will also be deleted from your desktop mail client as well.  POP3 downloads everything to your device.  If you use multiple devices you should definitely use IMAP.

Incoming mail server IMAP/POP3

my_domain.com

Do not select SSL/SECURE.  The user name is just your user name, not the email address.

Outgoing mail server SMTP

my_domain.com

Do not select SSL/SECURE but do enable “my server requires authentication”.

Use the same user name and password as you did for the IMAP/POP3 service.

Happy e-mailing,

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