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Author: Jean Galea

Jean Galea is an investor, entrepreneur, and writer. He is the founder of WP Mayor, and the plugins WP RSS Aggregator and Spotlight. He also runs the Good Life Collective. Connect with him on X or visit jeangalea.com.

Articles written by Jean Galea

The Ultimate Guide to Setting Up a WordPress VPS – Part 4

And we’re back again for the fourth instalment of the VPS setup guide for WordPress! Just to refresh your memories, we are setting up a VPS using the VPS.net service, optimised for faster serving of your WordPress sites. Today we will focus on caching, which is an essential element in speeding up your site. It is important that you follow step-by-step, so if you haven’t completed the previous parts, head back to those posts before starting Part 4.

The Beginner’s Guide to Starting a Newsletter

Today I came across a super-interesting article on how to start a newsletter. You can find the article here, it’s written by Pat Flynn, an online marketer and blogger who earns upwards of $40,000 per month, so he must be doing something right!

The Ultimate Guide to Setting Up a WordPress VPS – Part 3

We’re back for the third instalment of the VPS setup guide for WordPress. Just to refresh your memories, we are setting up a VPS using the VPS.net service, optimised for faster serving of your WordPress sites. In Part 1 we discussed the technologies used, and in Part 2, we set up Ubuntu, PHP, MySQL and phpMyAdmin. It is important that you follow step-by-step, so if you haven’t completed the previous parts, head back to those posts before starting Part 3.

The Ultimate Guide to Setting Up a WordPress VPS – Part 2

In this tutorial, the second part of our WordPress VPS series, I’m going to walk through setting up a web server using Ubuntu 11.04 Natty, NGiNX, PHP-FPM and MySQL. I use this setup for all of my servers, and this post is my way of remembering the process, and maybe help some others out.

Top 5 Mistakes for your WordPress Website Security

Website security has become a major subject nowadays, as the web is fast becoming the preferred way for attackers to spread malware, steal credit card details or carry out other illegal activities. Due to the wide variety of open source tools and Content Management System (CMS) software available, more and more websites and blogs are being easily created every day.

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The Ultimate Guide to Setting Up a WordPress VPS – Part 1

If you’ve read our article about WordPress performance optimisation and our WordPress SEO guide , you know that it’s important to have a fast-loading website, both for SEO purposes and more importantly, for your users’ convenience. In the first part of our WordPress VPS guide, we talk about the difference between shared hosting and a VPS, and get you started in setting up your very own VPS.

How to Make Your WordPress Site Private

If you are building an intranet-style WordPress site or just want to have a private blog, the Members Only plugin is a great and easy solution that lets you do just that.

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Interview with Galin Simeonov from AlienWP

Today we interview Galin Simeonov from AlienWP. Galin has release a couple of really popular minimal responsive themes. The best thing is that you can grab them for free from his site www.alienwp.com. In the interview we discuss Galin’s work with WordPress and also talk about the usefulness of frameworks when developing.

Best WordPress Mobile Plugins

How does your website display on mobile devices? If you haven’t paid any attention to this aspect of your site, you are most definitely missing out on a big market. Nowadays many users access your site from their mobile devices, so it’s worth showing them some love by customising the display of your WordPress site to their mobile device. Let’s see how to do this….