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6Oct/105

How to use WP-Total Cache Effectively?

Hello,

Here is a brief tutorial explaining about installation of wp-total-cache plugin and tuning it for better performance.Memcached feature is available on all heroehost servers. This is the best way of caching all objects and SQL.

Let's install the required plugins once.

Step-1:Install WP-TotalCache

You can download this from worpress.com or can directly install it from inside your wordpress Dashboard by navigating to Plugins->Add plugin.

Once it is installed you can activate the plugin.

Step:2:Setting up WP-TotalCache

When you navigate to plugin admin area it will ask you to write .htaccess rules just click on try again (if you see any error)all rules will be written to your .htaccess fire automatically.After doing this please follow the settings as show in the below image.

As shown in the image above you should select Memcached for all the options except for the setting "Content Delivery Network". Keep content delivery network as disabled.

Follow the same steps for all your blogs.

Why should you do this?

By default this plugin uses Disk (enhanced) which kills the speed of the loading of your blog. When this option is used, it uses the hdd for the writing purpose.

But when Memchached is used in the settings of the plugin, the writing is done through the RAM which is few hundreds times faster than the writing speed of a hdd. Obviously, this improves the performance.

What Next?

Install the wp-memchached plugin from

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-memcached-manager/

and you can check if everything is correctly cached and connected to server.

Tagged as: performance, plugin, tip, tutorial, wordpress 5 Comments

21May/101

Installing WordPress-MU on your Heroehost hosting account

Hello all,

Many of our clients are asking how to install wordpress-mu with sub-domains support. here is a very simple way for it in easy steps.

Step:1 Download Latest version of WordPress-MU from WordPress-MU website . Create a database with MySQL database wizard available in cPanel and note down the databasename, username and password.

Step-2 You can upload the files in 2ways.One way is you can upload the downloaded archive directly to your hosting space and can uncompress there another way is to extract the files in to a folder in your computer and FTP them to your hosting space. The upload should be done only in to /public_html/ folder (this is default folder).All the files and folders like 'wp-admin' etc., should be in root folder that is /publich_html/ folder.

Step-3 Make the necessary files writable and proceed with installation by pointing your browser to domain.Select the option "Sub domains (like blog1.example.com)" as shown in image below

Now fill the database details of the MySQL database we created earlier in Step-1.Leave the Server address untocued (by default it will be yourdomain.com). Fill your blog title and email and click on install.If you get error saying that .htaccess file already exists,Open the file manager from control panel and delete the already existing .htaccess file and realod the page it should show your administrator username and admin password note them.

Step-4 Subdomains will not work by default you need to add a subdomain to make all the subdomains work.Go to the 'subdomains' from cpanel and add a subdomain with host as '*' and direcotry as /public_html/.