When I started using WordPress I was all impressed how easy you can manage things with just a click of a button.There are so many plugins that you basically can change your blogs design or functionality without editing the code.

It didn’t take much time and I wanted to uninstall the number of plugins.My blog started to be plagued with plugins which was slowing my site down and I also had to deal with epidemic updates.
Besides, there are somany things you can do without plugins.Here are three quick WordPress tips you might find useful.

Change wordpress login URL

This hack make the login a lot easier.You will find it handy if you build the websites for a client or the websites that have multiple contributors

Here’s how to change wp-login to login (or anything you like).
Example: http://website.com/login
Back-up your .htaccess file (located at the root of your WordPress install).

Add the following:

RewriteRule ^login$ http://website.com/wp-login.php [NC,L]

You can replace login with whatever you like.

If you are the only writer on your wordpress blog then it is always better to do not let anyone else to be able to access your wp-admin directory.If you don’t have multiple writers or contributors to your blog, then realistically speaking you should block all the other IP addresses. WP-admin directory has been known for its security risks. All you have to do is enter your static IP adress on line 8. You can add more IPs if needed, by creating a new line.This way its completely up to you who you let to access to you blogs admin directory. Place the following in your .htaccess file.

AuthUserFile /dev/null
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName “Example Access Control”
AuthType Basic

order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from xx.xx.xx.xx

Mobile web surfing is growing to a larger scale. This is why detecting and redirecting those users who are visiting your WordPress blog through a smartphones or other mobile devices is important.Redirecting them to a mobile version of your site will give them better experience.To get this done, you first need to get the code from detectmobilebrowsers.mobi and upload it to your theme directory.

Then, all you need to do is open your header.php file and place the following at the top of the file. Remember to edit line 5 of the code.That is where you’d like to redirect mobile users.