Understanding Page Load Speed, and How WordPress Affects It

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTJ5cRi_A4c What is Page Load Speed? It's important to understand page load speed from both an academic perspective as well as a pragmatic perspective. Defined, page load speed is most commonly referred to as the amount of time it takes for a single web page to be initially downloaded to a computer or a device.…

Preserving HTML in the Visual Editor in WordPress

One really annoying thing about WordPress is that if you are working with something like an opt-in code or another raw form of HTML - such as a YouTube video - it will often times completely break when you switch to the "Visual" editor in WordPress from the "Text" editor. One thing that many people…

The Top Eight Things You Can Do Secure your WordPress Site

As you may or may not have heard, there have been several instances of distributed brute force login attacks on WordPress sites over the past few months.  In late 2012, wordpress.com saw a distributed attack in this fashion, and just over the last few days a variety of hosting providers saw a similar attack waged…