Andrei Chira
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4 Methods to Find and Fix Broken Links
Google constantly refines its ranking algorithm and the signs are that it will continue to do it in the near future. The ultimate Google Search purpose is to ensure the best user experience regardless of the context (query, device used, Internet connection etc). Broken links don’t hurt so much the user experience, but these might…
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The Beginner’s Guide to Git and GitHub
More and more top employers, including Google and Microsoft, are focusing more on Stack Overflow, Git, and GitHub accounts than on resumes. These accounts say a lot more about your knowledge and skills than a CV because they effectively reveal what you’ve worked on. Past or side projects, contributions to open source works, and your…
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What to Do Before Updating Your WordPress Site
Updating your WordPress website may seem trivial and even unnecessary at times. After all, if your website is working properly and without any fuss, what is the need to update it in the first place? As it turns out, consistently updating your website is a must. It improves your website’s performance, addresses unresolved security issues,…
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Blog optimization – just another case study
Aghiuta.com is a media monitoring and politics blog written by Florin Popescu. Here’s our WordPress optimization we did for this blog. Before optimization First page loading speed was 4.3 sec. The homepage has 86 requests and 1.3 MB. JS Facebook Connect JS has 174.4K and is loaded in 0.69 seconds. The Facebook Like Box can…
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WordPress optimization for a book blog
Bookuria.info is a site dedicated to book lovers where you can find news, editorials on the cultural scene and fresh promotions and discounts from book publishers. Bogdan, the owner, has chosen us to see if we can make his website faster, which was the main dissatisfaction with the old host. Let’s see what we did!…
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WordPress optimization for online newspaper
Observatorul de Bacau is a local newspaper from a small town in Romania. The loading time of the site was 6.37 seconds. Homepage of the site had 66 components with a total size of 1105.9 KB. But the main problem was not the page size. The poor performance of the site was due to the…
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How to make your WordPress site GDPR compliant
GDPR is the EU privacy protection legislation that came into force on May 25, 2018. A couple of weeks before that date it was a rush of panic from many of our customers, asking us for help to implement GDPR on their WordPress blogs. I promised I will write an article about GDPR, but I…
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WordPress optimization for Wide Magazine
Wide Magazine is a lifestyle magazine presenting cool experiences in downtown Bucharest. Although the magazine was hosted on a VPS the speed was slow. The cost of the managed VPS seemed unreasonably high. Loading speed of the site was 6.99 seconds, page components totaling 2.5 MB and doing 113 requests to the server. The homepage…
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Astra Pro VS GeneratePress Premium
I’m a fan of Genesis Framework, been using it for 3-4 years now. But one of our clients told me to take a look at GeneratePress or Astra. They are great themes and are not as bloated as I might think. Usually, the themes catered to beginners come with hundreds of options. They are not…
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How to translate your WordPress site into multiple languages?
Funny enough, although I’ve been working with WordPress since 2009 I never needed to translate my websites into multiple languages. But I always got questions from clients to recommend a way to translate their sites. So I’ve tested the likes of WPML, Babble, qTranslate or Polylang but was never quite sold on any of them.…
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Security issues in the WP GDPR Compliance plugin
Last night we got an email from a friend saying he found some new users with administrator privileges on some of his WordPress websites and asked us to check it out. We started to investigate, and it seems that the websites had a thing in common – the WP GDPR Compliance plugin. It looks like…
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How WordPress changed my life
This article is a translated transcript of my presentation at WordCamp Romania 2014. You can always watch my “performance” on WordPress.tv if you understand Romanian. I started the adventure of online entrepreneurship in August 2007. I was working in IT at the time; I didn’t quit the job right away, I thought I’d grow my business…