.htaccess

Non Www version not Redirecting to Www version in WordPress [Solution]

March 9, 2011

We all know that WordPress is a SEO friendly Blogging platform . One thing which WordPress takes care of intelligently is by directing non www to Www version or vice versa, depending upon your settings under general tab. I have my settings set to direct non www version of site to Www & this happens automatically. (WordPress handles it). Now here is a bug which I have spotted couple of days back that after updating ...

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How to Create WordPress .Htaccess File

January 8, 2010

WordPress being a self hosted Blog, you get the flexibility to play with root folder. Today I’m going to talk about WordPress .htaccess file which is an important file for many reasons. You can set many security settings using Wp .htaccess file, add rules for redirection, block bots, secure your blog from spammers and many more. Though, many Wp users who are hosting their own blog are still not aware of .htaccess file and how ...

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How to Enable Super Cache WordPress plugin

June 24, 2009

Few days back We talked about WP-Super cache plugin. Wp-Super cache is must have plugin for any wordpress blog on Shared hosting. WP-Super cache plugin is very useful to face the Digg effect. Digg effect is when any of your blog post hits the Front page of Digg, you will get huge traffic spike. A Normal Shared hosting is not capable of facing such huge traffic, to make them capable of face such situation, you ...

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How to access Website Stats in Dreamhost

June 22, 2009

Shoutmeloud is hosted on Dreamhost and it offers some great feature within it’s custom panel and one of them is stats feature. Almost every web hosting account comes with a stats monitoring service. In Dreamhost if you are using WordPress or Joomla you need to make few changes in your .htaccess file to access stats. Your domain stats can be access via http://domain.com/stats To access your .htaccess file you need to use either any web ...

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Block Visitors From Specific IP Address Using .htaccess method

June 6, 2009

We have already covered some interesting topics on wordpress .htaccess hacks. How to edit wordpress .htaccess file How to avoid spam comments in wordpress using .htaccess method How to redirect wordpress default rss feeds to feedburner using .htaccess method This post can be used for wordpress or for any website, by editing your .htaccess file. If you are not familiar with .htaccess file, refer to above mentioned post or get in touch with your hosting ...

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How to redirect wordpress default RSS feeds to feedburner without any plugin

May 12, 2009

By the number of posts I’m writing these days on WordPress, you can easily figure out that I’m a fan of wordpress. Obviously I’m because it made my life much easier and it’s probably wordpress that I have decided to work as a professional blogger. And If you are familiar with RSS feeds, Shoutmeloud recommend feed demon as your feed reader. Feeds are great way to boost your blog popularity and make them reachable to ...

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How to avoid Spam comments on WordPress using .htaccess method

April 28, 2009

These days I’m seeing lots of wordpress spam comments.The simplest way to avoid spammer is by using Akismet wordpress plugin You can get the Akismet WordPress plugin from here. Though at times if you will see your comment spam page, you might find few IP’s are constantly sending comment spam. The easiest way to get rid of these spam is by blocking their IP address using .htaccess method. I highly recommend keeping a backup of ...

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