Want to make a custom widget for your blog that works just how you like? If you’re not sure how to start, here’s a simple guide on making your own WordPress widget plugin.
The widget we’ll create is a simple one that ranks posts on our WordPress website. The ranking will be based on the number of views each post has, with the most viewed posts appearing first. Of course, we will limit the display to the top 10 posts.
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a network protocol that is used for transferring a file between computers. FTP is still used to support legacy applications and workflows with very specific needs. If you have a choice of protocol, consider modern options that are more efficient, secure, and convenient for delivering files like SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol).
vsftpd, very secure FTP daemon, is an FTP server for many Unix-like systems, including Linux, and is often the default FTP server for many Linux distributions as well. vsftpd is beneficial for optimizing security, performance, and stability. It also provides strong protection against security problems found in other FTP servers.
MySQL is one of the most used RDBMS (Relational Database Management System) that used in the world. So learning to use this will bring us a great skill that can be used almost everywhere.
In this tutorial, we will learn how to install MySQL on our own server. So let’s start.
WordPress is a widely used web content management system (CMS) originally designed for blogging but now supports various types of web content. It allows users to create and manage websites, blogs, forums, media galleries, e-commerce stores, and more.
WordPress is written in PHP. So, we can deploy it easily using Nginx, the same way as we deploy another PHP application.
And we will also protect our WordPress traffic data by using SSL.
Here we will see how to deploy WordPress on our own with Nginx and SSL to our server: