WordPress Nginx Cache Plugin

If you are running WordPress on apache, you have no problem because all the well-known cache plugins like Quick Cache, WP Super Cache & W3 Total Cache work very well. However, if you are running WordPress on nginx, then you have a problem because with the different rewrite rules that Nginx has, the cache plugins

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Could Not Create Directory: WordPress Plugin/ Upgrade FTP Problem

We have seen that to be able to upload plugins to your wordpress, you need to install a ftp programme like vsftpd. When you feed in the ftp information, you will run into this problem: Downloading install package from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/twitter-mentions-as-comments.1.5.2.zip…Unpacking the package…Could not create directory. /var/www/wp-content/upgrade/twitter-mentions-as-comments.tmpReturn to Plugin Installer I solved the problem this way:

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SSH Commands To Check The VPS Performance

Here are some common SSH commands done through putty to check the performance of the VPS Checking the processor used for the VPS [abc@vps2 ~]$ cat /proc/cpuinfoprocessor : 0vendor_id : GenuineIntelcpu family : 6model : 44model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 970 @ 3.20GHzstepping : 2cpu MHz : 3200.539cache size : 12288 KB To

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Quick Cache & Nginx

Quick Cache is one of my favourite WordPress cache plugins because it works very well without requiring any configuration and delivers a noticeable quickness with which the web pages are delivered. You can check whether Quick Cache is working by seeing the “source” of the page. At the bottom, you will see This Quick Cache

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