A robots.txt file is used to control access to your site's content by spiders that crawl the web. Reputable robots and spiders will respect the directives in your robots.txt file, but less scrupulous operators will just ignore them. A robots.txt file doesn't enhance your site's security, because it's up to a crawler to voluntarily respect the directives you provide. While it's not a universal … [Read more...] about Your robots.txt File
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HTML5 Genesis 2.0 Support
With the upcoming release of Genesis 2.0, Genesis will support HTML5 markup. HTML5 markup won't be enabled by default, because that could break child themes released before it was added to Genesis 2.0. Therefore, even after Genesis 2.0 is released in final form, HTML5 support will have to be enabled on a site-by-site basis. To accomplish that, we've released a small plugin, wpPERFORM.com … [Read more...] about HTML5 Genesis 2.0 Support
Using CloudFlare To Optimize Your Site
Even though we cover a lot of the ground when it comes to performance and security, there are other services that might add some value to your wpPERFORM site. One of those services is CloudFlare, and it's fully compatible with wpPERFORM. For background on what CloudFlare does, check out their own overview of CloudFlare. They offer both free and paid plans to protect and accelerate your web … [Read more...] about Using CloudFlare To Optimize Your Site
Custom CSS for Your WordPress Site
It's easy to create custom CSS for your WordPress site on our network using the Jetpack by WordPress.com plugin. This article is focused on using Jetpack's Custom CSS feature, so we'll assume you've already activated Jetpack. If not, skip over to our article on activating Jetpack for WordPress and get that initial step resolved. With the plugin activated, you'll be ready to create custom … [Read more...] about Custom CSS for Your WordPress Site
Caching On wpPERFORM
Opcode Caching Page Caching On wpPERFORM.com, we've included aggressive WordPress caching to optimize the performance of your WordPress powered site. Caching has a dramatic impact on the speed at which we serve up your site. It also has important ramifications for how you and your users interact with your site. For general background on caching in WordPress, check out the Codex article on … [Read more...] about Caching On wpPERFORM
Customize Your WordPress Login Logo and Dashboard Logo
When you visit the login page of a WordPress powered site, you'll see prompts for a username and password. Above those prompts is a WordPress login logo. On wpPERFORM.com, we've changed that login logo to our own image, but it's easy for you to have a custom login logo for your site. We also support a custom dashboard logo, which you'll see on the left corner of the toolbar in your dashboard. … [Read more...] about Customize Your WordPress Login Logo and Dashboard Logo
Setting a Custom Favicon & Apple Touch Icons
Setting a custom favicon is one of the finishing touches to personalize your site and make it stand out from others that use the same theme. In the age of mobile devices, setting a custom favicon might be just one of the custom icons you need to complete the personalized look. You may want to go the extra step of specifying custom touch icons for phones and tablets. We make it easy to do both of … [Read more...] about Setting a Custom Favicon & Apple Touch Icons
Core Loading Order In WordPress
There's a great visual guide outlining the core loading order in WordPress over on WordPress Answers on StackExchange, developed by Rarst, a longtime contributor in the WordPress community. This is important information for those that want to understand the basic workings of WordPress. Consider the screenshot below from Rarst's visual guide. This shows that active plugins are loaded … [Read more...] about Core Loading Order In WordPress
Domain Mapping For Your Top Level Domain
Already understand domain mapping? Jump ahead using one of these quick links: Use the WWW prefix? Do you own domain variations based on other TLD's? Update your DNS record Stop Everything! My Primary Domain Doesn't Use WWW Use Cloudflare To Manage Your DNS Zone Wait for propagatiom We're happy to map your primary domain to your wpPERFORM.com site at no charge for and up. Here's an … [Read more...] about Domain Mapping For Your Top Level Domain