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Whether you’re spring cleaning or getting started on new projects for 2012, it’s worth reviewing existing WordPress sites and setting up new ones for success over the coming year. We’ve picked out some of the best WordPress security plugins to help you safeguard your website.

Social media: love it or hate it, but you can't ignore it. During the past few years, social media -- along with Facebook and Twitter -- have grown by leaps and bounds in popularity. If you have a personal or professional blog, you are already part of the social media universe. A great way to increase the popularity of your blog is by using other forms of social media to promote it. Wordpress has many plugins to help you with this endeavor.

The number of social media services is constantly changing, and so are the number of plugins that deal with social media. This article highlights six very useful social plugins for the Wordpress platform.

Web Hosting Scotland offers great WordPress web hosting. It is 'one-click' installable via the Extend control panel.

Basically, there’s no rocket science behind picking up the right WordPress hosting. Besides having all the basic must-have factors (eg. a stable server, efficient customer supports, and affordable price), a good WordPress web host should:

1. Allow users to install WordPress easily
Installing WordPress manually can be quite a tedious job especially if you are not a tech person. Thus, it is important to make sure that the web host you picked supports WordPress auto installation. It doesn’t matter if it comes with Fantastico, Simple Scripts, or in-house developed program – the keypoint is to make sure you can install, maintain, and uninstall your WordPress sites in just a couple of minutes. Web Hosting Scotland hosts Wordpress as a one-click install from the control panel

2. Keep WordPress updated
Because of its popularity, outdated WordPress sites are exposed to excessive risks of being hacked. Hence, it is important to make sure the installation files provided by your web host is the latest updated version. The one-click installation files hosted by Web Hosting Scotland are always the latest version. WordPress has its own very good updating methods.

3. Provide WordPress related technical support
Yes it’s true that web hosting companies have every right to not provide WordPress related supports. However, technical supports from good hosting company are often able to troubleshoot moderate level of WordPress related problems – which in turn, save you hours of reading (or hair-pulling) session when dealing with WordPress difficulties.

A couple of weeks ago we looked in to Google’s announcement that they are using a page’s load time to rank a sample of sites (1%) and what it meant for your website (you can read that post here).

One of the most resource hungry ways of creating a website is WordPress. With its multiple CSS, JavaScript and PHP files and a heavy reliance on calls to databases a WordPress site can easily become bloated and slow. Web masters who use WordPress need to look at how they can decrease their website‘s page load speeds. Here is how.