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In reply to: [W3 Total Cache] W3TC – Help with Combining JS for a BeginnerNo problem! SSL means “Secure Socket Layer”. In short: it adds a layer of security between the server and the visitors computer, to encrypt all the information being sent and received between them. Quite useful in online shops, where credit card information is needed to make payments. Not as common in normal blogs, where you only have a username and password to post comments.
Normally, if you have problems with this kind of stuff, the best idea is just to search in Google about what you are trying to do. For example, in this case, you could search “setup Cloudflare on Bluehost”. I’ve done it, and found good news for you: you don’t need to go to cloudflare.com, you can enable it directly within the Bluehost control panel as explained here:
https://my.bluehost.com/cgi/help/cloudflareIt should be easier that way (my hosting provider also has it integrated and it’s really fast and easy to setup 😉
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [W3 Total Cache] W3TC – Help with Combining JS for a BeginnerIf you are a beginner, I’m quite sure you’re on a shared hosting, like most of us (only the pros use dedicated servers 😉 ).
And about Cloudflare, yes, use it! It has a free version, more than enough for regular users. It caches and serve static content (media, CSS files) faster from their own servers around the world, and it helps a lot to speed up your sites when using a shared server.
Once configured, you only need to click one button to enable minification of CSS and JS. Really easy, useful, and it’s done on external servers, so it doesn’t impact your shared hosting performance.
But the really important thing that you have done is to install ewww. Many people go crazy tweaking the settings to get 0.1s improvement, and forget that compressing the images, you can improve 1, 2 or maybe 3 full seconds, depending of the size of the original images (very often, poorly optimized).
My website loaded in 3-4 seconds before optimizing. Now it loads very often in 1.6 – 2 seconds, mainly because image optimizing ;). Check your site with Google Page Speed and with Yslow, and see if they keep recommending to improve images. Normally they offer a optimized image that you can upload to your web and replace the original with the optimized one. WordPress won’t see the difference if the file name is the same 😉
Good luck! 🙂
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [W3 Total Cache] W3TC – Help with Combining JS for a BeginnerIf you are on a shared hosting environment, I really recommend you to disable all JS and CSS minifying options. Sometimes, it makes the server even slower. What I do to make my website fast is:
– W3TC plugin: only page and HTML cache enabled (not object, no Minifying, no database)
– EWWW plugin: compress all my website images, including the theme images. This plugin is fantastic!
– Use Cloudflare, and there, I enable minifying of JS and CSS. It minifies it much easily than W3TC (really complex in my experience).Using that, I get 91% in Pagespeed and 88% in Yslow:
http://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.lofotenresidents.com/2ZzdAMiHI hope it can help you 😉
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [EWWW Image Optimizer] Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach()Hi!
I was having the same problem and it fixed it to me too!! Thank you!
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Gantry BuddyPress] BuddyPress 1.6 and Gantry BuddyPressSame problem here. BP links like activity or groups are totally blank 🙁
Fantastic!! I did it right now, and now works perfectly!! Snapshot created, downloaded, and used. It’s great. And all the post installation tips about cache and permalinks are really useful. Very useful plugin, specially now that it works :D.
I tried also to delete a snapshot and no problem at all.
Thank you! Marked as solved!
Now, with 0.3 it works better, it completes the process, no error in the log file, but my backups list is still empty after finishing and no matter how many times I refresh the Dashboard page, it’s still empty. I’ve manually downloaded the “package.zip” file and also the installer.php (which is located in the plugin folder, not in the wp-snapshots folder), and it worked on my local testing server. It’s a really nice plugin, but they only thing I miss is to see the backups on the dashboard to download or delete them easily.
Thank you for your support!
Hey Daniel!! The last 2.1.12 release fixed all of my issues!! Thanks so much and congratulations for this incredible and useful plugin!!!
This plugin is a very good idea, but needs some things to improve, as the file and folder names, to have a better control about where and what are you copying, and also would be great to set a total backups number to keep. For example, if I want to keep the lastest 5 backups, when the next one comes, the oldest one is automatically deleted.
I also would like to know if the backup only includes the wp-content folder, or also the system files
Great!! Thank you very much Daniel! You have a great plugin here, and some of us we were a bit worried thinking that you abandoned it ;). Good to read you are there!
Cheers,
AlmarmaCaptmrbles, I’m using BackWPup since some months ago, and I really love it. It’s the only plugin that do all you need to backup files and DB. I have to normal jobs: daily database backup and checking, and weekly file transfer to Dropbox. Very useful and with nice tools to set when to run the tasks.
At the beginning, it gave me some troubles, and now it’s giving another, but 99% of the time, it works perfectly and runs very fast
For all those people with problems with the lastest release, I’ve found a temporal workaround until Daniel fix it: you can go here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backwpup/developers/
And download 2.1.9 release (the last working one). I deleted the plugin from my site, then, installed again uploading the 2.1.9 zip file from my computer, created a new job, and works fine. Don’t upgrade until a new release comes, after the problematic 2.1.11Hi Daniel,
Do you need admin rights to test it? Or only the URL? I have several webs with WP and all of them use your plugin 🙂
lofotenresidents.com
eilertsen-granados.com
informateca.netUPDATE 2 (I cannot edit anymore the previous post): It only fixed the database copy (I have one task for DB and another one for files). The files copy still fails 🙁
Hi Daniel!!
Please, can you give us an answer? Many of us are having problems since the last two updates (2.1.10 and 2.1.11).Is it possible to revert to older releases without destroying the database?
UPDATE: I’ve tried it in one of my sites and it fixes the problem (for now). Just go here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backwpup/developers/ and download 2.1.9. Then, deactivate and uninstall the plugin from within WP, and add a new one, uploading from the file you downloaded before. Create a new task. You will see it works really fast without errors.