How to change WordPress admin password

There are many ways to reset your admin password in WordPress. Let’s assume all methods like “Lost Password” are exhausted. Change your password through phpMyAdmin Time needed: 5 minutes. Change your password through phpMyAdmin Login to phpMyAdmin...

How to setup Debian Squeeze 6 with Lighttpd, MySQL & PHP

How to setup a basic Debian ( Squeeze) 6 webserver with Lighttpd, MySQL & PHP. We just need a basic webserver to host a WordPress website(s). We need a Low end Server that can handle traffic and processes, often used for custom web applications. We do not really...

Get a list of all enqueued scripts or styles

We have been working on WordPress website optimization and want to replace or combine style sheets and do some other fancy stuff. In order to do this we need handle names of scripts and styles, we have two functions that works to retrieve the handle of a script or...

Increase WordPress Page Speed using functions.php

Increase WordPress Speed just by adding some functions to functions.php. You can easily speed up your WordPress Theme by adding some custom functions. We are working on a speed optimized Theme and we wanted to share some of our code snippets. We used GTmetrix, Google...

Enable gzip compression using the .htaccess file for Apache

Speed up your website and use gzip compression using the .htaccess file in the root of your website’s directory if you are using Apache or NGIX (Linux). You can actually use two different Apache mods to enable HTTP gzip compression: mod_gzip and mod_deflate....

Enable Leverage browser caching using the .htaccess file

Leverage browser caching is a cache mechanism for page speed. Most of the static files that are used on web pages can be saved on the computer of your visitor for future access. Every time a visitor accesses a page on your website these files will then be...