Nowadays, virtually each site administrator has wished their WordPress website would work faster. However, lots of people, especially those, who lack profound expertise in website development, are scared off by the problems that may occur in case they make any significant changes to their website’s functionality. In reality, though, this process is not as scary as it may appear. In fact, one can improve their site’s loading speed from 1.61 to 583 milliseconds in less than a couple hours of work. This process will not require tons of effort – by installing a bunch of plugins and fixing a couple of simple errors you can receive a 70.39% improvement. Mind this, no visual changes will be made in this case, so your website’s design will remain the way you intended it to be.

The 2009 Akamai study suggests that 47% of website visitors find it ok if it takes about 2 seconds for a page to load, however, in case a page loads in more than 3 seconds, 57% of visitors are very likely to abandon it. Furthermore, there’s a series of case studies that have confirmed that loading time has a considerable impact on sales.

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To extend the functionality of WordPress, WordPress Plugins are composed of php scripts. They can offer new features to your blog that either add otherwise unavailable new additions or enhance features that were already available on your site.

Most of WordPress users require a few Plugins, such as Plugins dealing with customized post listings or comment spam protection. Other people enjoy the featured Plugins which provide post word counts, frequently updated weather reports, rating systems, etc. WordPress Plugins are they are not incorporated into the core of WordPress since they are optional and based upon the needs of the user.

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When working with your WordPress website, it is not uncommon if you need to move WordPress around within your server, or even relocate it from one server to another. Don’t worry – you won’t have to go through the installation process over again.

The fact is, WordPress is a flexible CMS, capable of taking care of such situations. Hence, there is quite a simple way to transfer WordPress from one hosting to another – and with our guidance, you’ll master this process in no time.

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Any post or page you publish in WordPress becomes visible to the public by default. In other words, a post or page has a default visibility status, based on the settings of a Edit Post Screen in the Publish box.

The simple codes and options described below will help you to customize your WordPress posts` visibility. No more than five minutes of your time will protect your posts from being viewed by the people for whom they are not addressed to. Be attentive and paste the code correctly to avoid problems with the password form.

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The appearance themes screen is a great solution if you want to manage your Themes. It allows you to install, activate Themes as well as to update or delete them. Through two tabs Install Themes and Manage Themes (the default view) you can always configure your Themes the way you want.  

WordPress Themes are a number of files which create a visual interface as well as the unified design for a blog. These are the template files. A Theme changes the way of how a site looks like without changing its underlying software. Themes may consist of image files (*.jpg, *.gif), code files (*.php), custom Pages, style sheets (*.css) as well as customized template files.

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There two issues used to backup your WordPress web site: Files and Database.

Now we will talk about files.

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