.htaccess and WordPress tips

Most of you probably already know quite a few things about .htaccess file and what you can or can’t do with it, but for people who are looking for a quick ref for their WordPress blog and .htaccess help here’s what you need to do in order to get the most out of your site and server.

Remove the /category/ from your url

RewriteRule ^category/(.+)$ http://www.yourblog.com/$1 [R=301,L]

User Browser Cache to make your blog load faster – decrease page load speed

ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/png "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/pdf "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access 1 year"
ExpiresDefault "access 2 days"

In all shared hosting servers at GoZEN Host, we do have mod_expires compiled with apache or nginx server or LiteSpeed

Stop others stealing bandwidth from you by hot-linking your images etc

RewriteEngine On
#Replace ?mysite\.com/ with your blog url
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?mysite\.com/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
#Replace /images/nohotlink.jpg with your «don’t hotlink» image url
RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ /images/nohotlink.jpg [L]

Block access to spammers etc with .htaccess

order allow,deny
deny from 192.168.2.1
allow from all

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