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Optimize Wordpress

Optimize your website is important steps after you made it. If you build your website using wordpress, i found three steps to optimize it. First Step – Optimize 1) Upgrade to latest WordPress release 2) Delete all the unused or unwanted plugins (this is the first reason why you need 10-12 seconds to load your homepage). 3) Clean up your css code using a css compressor like styleneat, cleancss or csstidyonline. 4) Reduce the PHP and database queries. For example, on your header, use absolute URLs (http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-content/themes/example/style.css instead of < ?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_url’); ? >). Second Step – Install some plugins After that you can install 6 ‘magic’ plugins: 5) WP Super-Cache (to cache all the dynamic requests as static html files). 6) WP Tuner (to analyze your database and to find slow queries or plugins). 7) WP Smush.it (to reduce image file sizes using Smush.it) 8) WP-DBManager (again, to optimize and repair the database) 9) Disable Revisions and

How To Install VB6 on Windows 7

After surfing around the net, I've found very little information regarding installation of VB6 on Windows 7. Most of the information out there is for Vista, and most of it is queries for assistance. You may be wondering why someone would want to utilize VB6 on a shiny new operating system like Windows 7. Or even Vista for that matter. There are about a bazillion legacy applications out there that have to be supported, and people like me who speak VB6 need to have the tools installed on our workstations in order to implement and test updates and such for these legacy applications. It also helps out when I need to squirt out a quick tool for use in my daily work. So without further delay, here is the process that I have used on my Windows 7 machines to install Visual Basic 6. 1. Turn off UAC. 2. Insert Visual Studio 6 CD. 3. Exit from the Autorun setup. 4. Browse to the root folder of the VS6 CD. 5. Right-click SETUP.EXE, select Run As Administrator. 6. On this and

How To Disable UAC in Windows 7

We can disable UAC in Windows 7 using these steps: 1. Run Registry Editor (RegEdit) by typing regedit at command prompt or at startmenu->run 2. Locate following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesSystem 3. Locate the following REG_DWORD value: EnableLUA 4. Set the value of EnableLUA to 0. Now Exit from Registry Editor and Restart the computer.