Kevin L. Amato a.k.a narga | NARGA.NET Founder

Top 5 Best WordPress plugins to Enable Social Login (oAuth)

October 26, 2016August 18, 2014 by NARGA Editorial

The best solution to incease more communication with your audience but don’t require your separate membership are Enable Social Media oAuth login in WordPress.

Improve WordPress Comments System with Social Comments

December 27, 2016August 11, 2014 by NARGA Editorial

The default comments system built into WordPress is very basic and not good as we expected to prevent spam (How To Stop WordPress Spam Comments?), connect to your audience… and it’s lacking of advanced functionality to improve the way to commenting on your website. Thankfully, WordPress plugins can help you done with threaded commenting (include in core comments system), use social media accout to login and comment, mark a comment as favorite/like/helpful or not …
The Social Comments System like Facebook, Google+, Disqus… breaking down the barriers between you and your audience. When someone reads an article on your site and wants to comment, they can now use one of their existing social networking accounts to post a comment.
Let’s take a look at some Social Comment Systems that will elevate you above the default WordPress comments system.

Top 10+ Awesome jQuery Media Player Plugins for Handling Audio & Video

September 9, 2019August 5, 2014 by NARGA Editorial

Handling Website’s Audio and Video in web browser without native player and flash is big problem in several years ago. Times have changed and nowadays, when audio and video are used on web, is used with the help of Javascripts and HTML5. Since most of the people want to display videos and audios on their websites and this can be done by jQuery Audio Video Player Plugins.
If you looking for the internet, you’ll find ton of Javascripts and HTML5 player. So, in this article I’m going to write about 10+ Awesome Video and Audio Player jQuery Plugins which are free, lightweight, features rich, responsive and accessibility.

Quick Overview of New Features Coming in WordPress 4

January 2, 2015July 28, 2014 by NARGA Editorial

The WordPress 4 is major version upgrade of most popular blogging/CMS software. It’ll avaiable on August 27, 2014 but we can take a look at What’s new features will comming in WordPress 4 by testing the beta versions. 4.0 is due out next month but I’m glad to report that all the features I was excited about made their way into the final release.
So what new features should we be expecting in WordPress 4?

Varnish + Nginx in comparison with Nginx alone, which is better?

December 29, 2016June 16, 2014 by NARGA Editorial

Like others, I confused with the combine of Varnish + Nginx and Nginx alone on my server. But since I optimized new server with only Nginx, FastCGI Cache, Memcache. I’ve found a lot of talk about using Nginx with Varnish or not around the Internet. Isn’t Nginx enough?

The Quick Answer: I choosed Nginx alone without Varnish because I’ve found Varnish ~5% faster for small static files than Nginx but I will have to spend more time to maintaining and configuring it to works as I experct. It is not worth my effort!
This arctile will explain the reason that I don’t use Varnish with Nginx like Apache before.

How to Lose Weight and Reduce the Size of WordPress Installation

November 1, 2020June 9, 2014 by NARGA Editorial

In Cloud Hosting Generation, you don’t care about the web hosting storage like some years back. But it’s note mean you don’t really care about WordPress size that included total files size and database size. Too large WordPress total file size is most backup and restore known issues. Trust me, it’s hard to store and manage large amounts of data. In some previous posts, I’ve mentioned about the ways to backup, clean and optimize WordPress database then in this post, we will talking about How to Lose Weight and Reduce the Size of WordPress by reduce images file size, remove bloat files, delete unused plugins or themes…

Recommended Nginx Configuration for High Traffic WordPress on Small VPS (512 RAM)

August 4, 2015May 26, 2014 by NARGA Editorial

A mere half-year ago, I was published two article to guide you setup perfect VPS on Digital Ocean and the guidelines to optimize LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) web server on lowest VPS hardware plan. My VPS that’s optimized with Varnish, W3 Total Cache, PHP-APC was powered on since November 2013 until now without any reboot or reset. I estimate my server could easily handle 50K – 100K page views per day. At that point I would be close to breaking 95% memory usage (with swap file). In just an afternoon last week, my server was survival with 280K page views, without any downtime.

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Comprehensive Guide to Real Time Backup your Website to Dropbox

November 1, 2020May 13, 2014 by NARGA Editorial

This is my last article about WordPress/Website/Hosting backup because in my opinion, it’s perfect solution to keep complete files/databases backups on the cloud and in real-time. As you known, I’ve moved to Digital Ocean for 9 months ago, then I configurated a very tiny VPS with low RAM to serving 5 websites with 10K pageviews per days.
If you’re following NARGA.NET and you’ve read some articles about automatic backup WordPress databases clean and optimize WordPress databases…

Keep HTML and CSS Markup Flexible with CSS Selectors

May 19, 2014April 29, 2014 by NARGA Editorial

With CSS, we can completely transform the look of a website without changing its source code and markup. The key of that process is CSS selectors. But despite this, CSS selectors are one of the more neglected parts of the specification and CSS selectors are still not used to their full potential. You may sometimes spend too much time trying to solve a problem that you could more easily solve by using CSS selectors.
Today, I’m listing the list of CSS Selectors you Must Memorize if your want to keep your code (include HTML markup) and your style sheets flexible.
Note: I am not going to explain the basics of how CSS selectors in general work here.

How to help IE 8, 7, 6 more compatible with HTML5, CSS3 & MediaQueries

August 27, 2016April 23, 2014 by NARGA Editorial

The following will allow your sites to quickly and almost magically work better in Internet Explore 8, 7, 6! And there we go. Somewhat better browser support and less headache if you want to attempt to support old version of Internet Explorer.

HOW TO Avoid Being Slowed Down by Social Media Buttons

October 25, 2016April 14, 2014 by NARGA Editorial

I’m planning decrease the number of social media buttons on this website because it’s slowed down the load time.
To load the Facebook, Twitter and Google social media buttons for a total of 19 requests takes 246.7k in bandwidth. Holy crap! If a third-party website is slow this will hold up your page from loading.
Have you known, Google has been using site speed as a search ranking signal since 2010. So a faster websites means more money, better rankings, and happier users.

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