Sep 21, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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This essential .htaccess rules article is a part of the blog optimization techniques I’ve implemented lately and taken the loading times of my blog from 12-18 seconds to 4-7 seconds. As a bonus, these .htaccess rules improved the blog security at the same time.
Here’s the thing. Many blogs have a .htaccess file that only has the rules WordPress (or any other blogging platform) install places there and possibly rules a plugin has created too. If you don’t add these rules to your root .htaccess file, you’re missing out easy performance improvements any blogger can have. So don’t count on your hosting provider’s default rules (if there even is any) and make your blog better with these simple .htaccess rules.
As a part of general optimizing a blog for both fast page loading and securing the site, the .htaccess -file at the root of your domain is an easy way to do web page optimization on a site level. Putting these rules into use won’t alone cut your page loading times to half, but they do provide the foundation for further optimization and speed improvements for your blog, or any website for that matter.
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Sep 05, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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All WordPress blogs up to version 2.8.3 are reportedly being attacked and hacked.
The latest WordPress version 2.8.4 seems to be SAFE.
The blogs on WordPress.com are SAFE as the WordPress.com system is up-to-date.
Thank you so much for Lorelle on WP for making a post about this, so I got the news (check Lorelle’s post for all the info).
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