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How to avoid getting penalized by Google
You put a lot of thought in writing compelling content, the traffic rise each month and readers turn into leads and customers. It looks like everything works fine until one day the traffic drops significantly for apparently no reason. The chances are that the traffic drop is the result of a Google penalization – the…
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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…
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Case study – blog optimisation
1923.ro is a fan site dedicated to the Rapid Bucharest football club. You can find news and updates about the team, interviews with some of the players and you can also buy fan-made t-shirts. Dragos (the site owner) has opted for our hosting solution to see if we can solve some problems he had with…
