Best Google Maps WordPress Plugins 2024 (Free and Paid)

Google Maps, one of Google’s flagship products, is by far the most popular map service online. Launched in 2005, the service has since been integrated into websites, apps and more. This was made possible by the Google Maps API, which allows third-party products and services to embed Google Maps. WordPress has great support for Google Maps, and there are many WordPress...

Best Ecommerce WordPress Plugins 2024 (Free and Paid)

The number platforms to build an ecommerce store is mind numbing. When it comes to customizing and tuning to however you want, nothing beats a WordPress ecommerce site. It does take time to get it running; you can set up and start selling on BigCommerce or Shopify over a weekend. With WordPress ecommerce, you got to give it a week. However, unlike...

Best Landing Page WordPress Plugins (Free and Paid)

Do you have an online store? Do you offer any services online? Are you looking to increase the number of members subscribing to your service? Then, you must have heard of landing pages. If you haven’t, it is time to familiarize yourself with them. Read on to find out more about how to make landing pages an important part...

Best Migration WordPress Plugins 2024 (Free and Paid)

Moving a WordPress site can seem like a daunting task. With plugins, themes, and sometimes thousands of media files it can be difficult. Luckily there are plenty of WordPress migration plugins that make moving a site as simple as possible. Here is our list of the Best Migration Plugins for WordPress: 1. Duplicator Duplicator is one of the most popular migration plugins among...

Best Search WordPress Plugins 2024 (Free and Paid)

Did you know that the default WordPress search engine isn’t really that efficient (and awesome) like the rest of WordPress? Although the search is available as a function in WordPress, it does not search custom post types and taxonomies. This means that if you have a custom post type like “Book” for a book review website, then the default search isn’t...

Setup Let’s Encrypt Wildcard SSL on Ubuntu 20.04 | 18.04

This brief tutorial shows students and new users how to generate free wildcard SSL/TLS certificates using Let’s Encrypt (Certbot) on Ubuntu 20.04 | 18.04 LTS. When you want to run you website over HTTPS, you’ll have to install SSL certificates. You can either pay for certificates from a certificate authority or get free ones from Let’s Encrypt. Let’s Encrypt is a...

How to Install Fail2ban on Ubuntu 20.04

What is Fail2ban? Fail2ban is an open-source security tool for protecting your servers against unauthorized access and brute force attack. It was written with Python, works by scanning log files for brute force login attempts in real-time and then block the source IP address using the Linux firewall. The Fail2ban is a security tool that designed to protect various services, including the SSH, FTP, OpenVPN,...

How to Create a Non-root User on Your Ubuntu 20 VPS or Dedicated Server

If you are spinning a new Ubuntu 20 server, you may need to create a new non-root user with sudo privileges.  Logging on your Linux server as the root is not a good practice because a single mess can wipe your entire server. Creating a new user with sudo permissions allows you to do administration tasks with elevated privileges only...

How To Get PHP mail() Working On Ubuntu 20.04, 18.04 & 16.04

In this article we are going to install and configure Postfix to allow our applications to use the PHP mail() function. Tested and working on Ubuntu 20.04, 18.04 & 16.04. 1. Install Postfix Let’s update the package database first. sudo apt-get update Install mailutils, which will automatically install Postfix. sudo apt install -y mailutils On the first Postfix configuration screen, select OK by pressing TAB and ENTER Select Internet Site and press ENTER. System mail name should be...

Useful commands for ubuntu 20

Inspect TXT records of a domain host -t txt google.com Create a database When all the servers installed above, it’s now time to begin setting up WordPress environment. First, run the steps below to create a blank database for WordPress to use. Logon to MariaDB database console using the commands below: sudo mysql -u root -p Then create a database called wpdb CREATE DATABASE wpdb; Next, create...