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Google Analytics

Knowing your audience and what they want is an important success factor for any website. The best way to know your audience is through your traffic stats and this is exactly what Google Analytics provide for FREE. There are plenty of stats…

MailChimp

If you’ve read an article on monetizing your blog, then you probably understand the importance of email marketing. There is a famous saying in blogging, “Money is in the List”. If you notice to your right, you will see an…

Syntax Highlighter

At WPBeginner, we often find ourselves sharing code snippets in our posts. When we first started, we were encoding our code and sharing it as ‘pre’. That required a lot of manual work. The reason why we had to manually encode…

WP-Bitly

In December 2010, we decided to create our own customized Short URL for WPBeginner. Many bloggers use the generic link shortening services like ow.ly, bit.ly, tinyurl etc. Top brands like New York Times, TechCrunch, and others were using…

Login Attempts

Security is something that should be in the back of everyone’s mind. This is why we always backup our WordPress. One of the very common attack that you can see is Brute Force attack. This basically means that a hacker keeps trying to…

Akismet

If you have been blogging for a month or two, you know about SPAM comments. You know where some person name “health insurance” tells you that you wrote a great post and gracefully signs it with a backlink to some totally…

W3 Total Cache

Site speed is something that we take very seriously. In order to make sure that our site scales and sustain huge loads of traffic without crashing, we utilize the W3 Total Cache plugin. It also helps us integrate with MaxCDN. W3 Total Cache…

WordPress SEO

Everyone who is blogging has heard a thing or two about SEO. You know that it is important for your site to have good SEO. WordPress is extremely well-coded which is why many call it SEO friendly. But the real SEO benefit comes from…