abhishek

<h4>1. Add an Expires Header</h4>
<p>Web pages are becoming increasingly complex with more scripts, style sheets, images, and Flash on them. A first-time visit to a page may require several HTTP requests to load all the components. By using Expires headers these components become cacheable, which avoids unnecessary HTTP requests on subsequent page views. Expires headers are most often associated with images, but they can and should be used on all page components including scripts, style sheets, and Flash.</p>
<p>Using WP Avoid Slow reduces number of HTTP requests affecting the page load performance.</p>
<h4>2. Configure Etags</h4>
<p>Entity tags (ETags) are a mechanism web servers and the browser use to determine whether a component in the browser’s cache matches one on the origin server. Since ETags are typically constructed using attributes that make them unique to a specific server hosting a site, the tags will not match when a browser gets the original component from one server and later tries to validate that component on a different server.</p>
<p>WP Avoid Slow Configure Etags helping browsers to validate the component !!</p>
<h4>Please Note</h4>
<p>Performance can be measured via Yslow. <a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/" rel="nofollow ugc">Read More</a> about Yslow .</p>


WP Avoid Slow

WP Avoid Slow - Add .htaccess tricks to boost your WP Blog Speed.

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<p><strong>WP htaccess Control</strong> should now really be called WP htaccess <em>and Rewrite</em> Control. It provides an interface to customize the htaccess file generated by WordPress but also its permalinks (author, category, archives, pagination and custom taxonomies). Have a look at the screenshot for a clearer idea of the available options.</p>
<p><strong>Features:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Customizing the htaccess file generated by WordPress;</li>
<li>Removing any custom taxonomy’s slug base from permalinks;</li>
<li>Removing the category base from permalinks;</li>
<li>Removing the author base from permalinks;</li>
<li>Customizing the Author Permalink Base;</li>
<li>Customizing Paginated Permalinks (translate the “page” word on permalinks to your own language);</li>
<li>Customization (and canonization) of the Search Permalink Base;</li>
<li>Creation of Category, Author, Tag and Custom Taxonomy based archives (ex: <em>“http://your-site.com/category/stories/2010/12”</em>, <em>“http://your-site.com/author/admin/2010/12/page/2”</em> and <em>“http://your-site.com/tag/wordpress/2010/12”</em>), this will also work if you’ve removed the base slug;</li>
<li>Maintenance mode.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Easy to use “Suggested htaccess” rules:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Jim Morgan’s htaccess;</li>
<li>Disable directory browsing;</li>
<li>Disable and redirect image hotlinking;</li>
<li>Disable and redirect file hotlinking;</li>
<li>Force canonical url (WWW or non-WWW);</li>
<li>Limit maximum file upload size;</li>
<li>Protect wp-config.php file from access;</li>
<li>Protect .htaccess file from access;</li>
<li>Protect comments.php from spam bots coming from nowhere;</li>
<li>Set 500 error page;</li>
<li>Set 403 error page;</li>
<li>Use mod_gzip if available;</li>
<li>Use mod_deflate if available;</li>
<li>Set admin email on server generated error pages;</li>
<li>Disable ServerSignature on server generated error pages.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>POT file is included, translations are welcome.</strong></p>
<h3>Known Issues</h3>
<p>I still haven’t tested this under <strong>WordPress multisite</strong>, issues have however been reported.</p>
<h3>Additional Credit</h3>
<p>Removal of the category base is based on iDope’s <strong>WP No Category Base</strong> but extended so that it works with category archives (ie.: <em>“http://example.com/my-category/2010/12”</em>).</p>
<p>Search redirection is based on Mark Jaquith’s <strong>Nice Search</strong> but extended so that it works with custom search base (ie.: <em>“http://example.com/search-base/search-term”</em>).</p>
<h3>Stable Versions</h3>
<p>For WordPress versions above 3.9 use the plugin version 3.4.</p>
<p>For WordPress versions above 3.4 use the plugin version 3.3.</p>
<p>For WordPress versions prior to 3.4 use the plugin version 2.7.2.1.</p>


WP htaccess Control

Interface to customize the permalinks (author, category, archives and pagination) and htaccess file generated by WordPress.

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