W3 Total Cache Optimal Settings

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W3 Total Cache Optimal Settings

I recently have make my site to run under SSL (https)  after Google’s  announce on «HTTPS as a ranking signal«, but then I discovered the sad part; the speed and performance on my site became slower. After researching and reading reviews around on the web, one of the free, cheap and best solution I found was a pluging call “W3 Total Cache” for wordpress. Again the challenge was how to configure it with my website and hosting service. After looking around on the net and search for the best recommended configuration, I been trying different setups but time after time the speed and performance went even worst. I tested different setups and at the end I found the one that really works for me.

I have a basic web hosting with WordPress CMS on it, no CDN or «extra forces» to make my site run faster. If you are in the same situation and wonder how can you make your blog / site speed up, this can save you some time.

In to your WordPress Dashboard, go to the W3 Total Cache plugging «Performance» click on  > General Settings and follow the instructions bellow:

General Settings:

-Toggle all caching types on or off (at once): Disable

Page Cache

-Page Cache: Enabled
-Page Cache Method: Disk Enhance

Minify
-Minify: Disable (in my case because it doesn’t work properly with my slider, but when enable increases the speed quit a bit)
-Minify Mode: Manual
-Minify Cache Method – Disk
-HTML Minifier: Default
-JS Minifier: Default
-CSS Minifier: Default or CSS Tidy

database Cache

-Database Cache: Disabled

Object Cache

-Object Cache: Disabled

Browser Cache

-Browser Cache: Enable

CDN: Enable if you have the Service available, in my case no.

-Leave Rest of settings as Default

Page Cache Settings

General

-Cache post page: Enable
-Don’t Cache Front Page: Disable
-Cache feeds: site, categories, tags, comments: Disable (why still using feeds?)
-Cache SSL (https) requests: Enable if using SSL (https) if not forget it.
-Cache URIs with query string variables: Disable
-Cache 404 (not found) pages:  Disable
-Cache requests only for yourdomain.com site address: Enable
-Don’t cache pages for logged in users: Enable(It’s good to enable this)
-Don’t cache pages for following user roles: Disable

Cache Preload

-Automatically prime the page cache: Enable
-Update interval: 900
-Pages per interval: 10
-Sitemap URL: your sitemap URL

Purge Policy: Page Cache

-Leave everything as default

Advance

-Leave everything as default

Minify

General

-Rewrite URL structure: Enable
-Disable minify for logged in users: Enable
-Minify error notification: Admin Notification

Html & Xml

–HTML minify settings: Enable all but not «Don’t minify feeds
-Ignored comment stems: Leave it as it is

JS

–JS minify settings: Enable
-Operation in Areas: Minify and Embed Type (Default (blocking)
-Preserve comment removal: Disable
-Line break removal: Enable
-JS file management Theme: choose your theme if you are using one.

CSS

-CSS minify settings: Enable
-Remove unnecesary backslashes: Enable
-Compress colors: Enable
-Compress font-weight: Enable
-Preserved comment removal: Disable
-Leave everything else uncheck
-@import Handling: Process
-Compression: Standart (balance between readability and size)
-Optimize shorthands: Safe Optimizations
-Case for Properties: Lowercase
-Regroup selectors: Merge selectors with the same properties (fast)
-Css file management Theme: choose your theme name

Advance

Leave it as default

Database Cache

General

Don’t cache queries for logged in users: Enable

Advance

Leave it as default

Object Cache Settings

Leave it as default

Browser Cache Settings

General

-Set Last-Modified header: Enable
-Set expires header: Enable
-Set cache control header: Enable
-Set entity tag (eTag): Enable
-Set W3 Total Cache header: Enable
-Enable HTTP (gzip) compression: Enable
-Prevent caching of objects after settings change: Disable
-Don’t set cookies for static files – Disable
-Do not process 404 errors for static objects with WordPress– Disable

CSS and JS

-Set Last-Modified header:  Enable
-Set expires header: Enable
-Expires header lifetime: 31536000 seconds
-Set cache control header: Enable
-Cache Control Policy: cache with max-age
-Set entity tag (eTag): Enable
-Set W3 Total Cache header: Enable
-Enable HTTP (gzip) compression: Enable
-Prevent caching of objects after settings change – Disable
-Disable cookies for static files: Disable

HTML and XML

-Set Last-Modified header: Enable
-Set expires header: Enable
-Expires header lifetime : 3600 seconds
-Set cache control header: Enable
-Cache Control Policy: cache with max-age
-Set entity tag (eTag): Enable
-Set W3 Total Cache header: Enable
-Enable HTTP (gzip) compression: Enable

Media and Other Files

-Set Last-Modified header: Enable
-Set expires header: Enable
-Expires header lifetime: 31536000 seconds
-Set cache control header: Enable
-Cache Control Policy: cache with max-age
-Set the entity tag (eTag): Enable
-Set W3 Total Cache header: Enable
-Enable HTTP (gzip) compression: Enable
-Prevent caching of objects after settings change: Disable
-Disable cookies for static files: Disable

Where to Download Plugin
W3 Total Cache by Frederick Townes
http://www.w3-edge.com

And thats it! this is the best configuration I have found for my wordpress site, but have in mind that every website has its own server configuration, plugins or theme. I hope this can be helpful to you and will save you some time if you have a website that is similar.

P.D: Remember at the end to clear all caches in W3 Total Cache Dashboard after the changes has been made.

TDR VOS SlickEQ Free Plugin

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TDR VOS SlickEQ Free Plugin  win/mac

Tokyo Dawn Records has just release a new free EQ plugin that just looks awesome! not just for the posibilities of use or quality but also for the great looking interface. Among all the free plugins available on the internet Tokyo Dawn offers probably if not the best some of the best available free plugins available today.

About TDR VOS SlickEQ

TDR VOS SlickEQ is a mixing/mastering equalizer designed for ease of use, musical flexibility and impeccable sound.

Three (and a half) filter-bands arranged in a classic Low/Mid/High semi-parametric layout offer fast and intuitive access to four distinct EQ modes, each representing a set of distinct EQ curves and behaviors. An elaborate auto gain option automatically compensates for changes of perceived loudness during EQ operation. Optionally, SlickEQ allows to exclusively process either the stereo sum or stereo difference (i.e. “stereo width”) without additional sum/difference encoding.

In order to warm up the material with additional harmonic content, SlickEQ offers a switchable EQ non-linearity and an output stage with 3 different saturation models. These options are meant to offer subtle and interesting textures, rather than obvious distortion. The effect is made to add the typical “mojo” often associated with classy audio gear.

An advanced 64bit multirate processing structure practically eliminates typical problems of digital EQ implementations such as frequency warping, quantization distortion and aliasing.

Beside the primary controls, the plug-in comes with an array of additional helpers: Advanced preset management, undo/redo, quick A/B comparison, copy & paste, an online help, editable labels, mouse-wheel support and much more.

Available Colours

Key specs and features

Intuitive, yet flexible semi parametric EQ layout
Full featured, modern user interface with outstanding usability and ergonomics
Carefully designed 64bit “delta” multi-rate structure
Three EQ bands with additional 18dB/Oct high-pass filter
Four distinct EQ models: “American”, “British”, “German” and “Soviet” with optional non-linearity
Four output stages: “Linear”, “Silky”, “Mellow” and “Deep”
Advanced saturation algorithms by VoS (“Stateful saturation”)
Highly effective and musically pleasing loudness compensated auto gain control
Stereo and sum/difference processing options
Tool-bar with undo/redo, A/B, advanced preset management and more
SlickEQ is a collaborative project by Variety of Sound (Herbert Goldberg) and Tokyo Dawn Labs (Vladislav Goncharov and Fabien Schivre).
System requirements:
Win XP SP2 or above, Mac OS X 10.6.8 or above.
Compatibility:
OS

Mac OS X Windows

32 Bits

VST, AU, AAX VST

64 Bits

VST, AU, AAXVST, AAX

Download:

http://www.tokyodawn.net/tdr-vos-slickeq/

 

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Logic Pro X new Skins

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Something really cool I have found for all the logic pro X users, If you would like to adapt the look of the interface to something that is more appalling to your personal taste, The avant-garde Logic Pro X GUI modding clan has created for the latest versions of Logic Pro X new skins compatible with version 10.0.5 and 10.0.6.

Avalon theme preview

Light Green Theme preview

Source & Download Link:
gearslutz.com (See this thread for more themes)
Avalon theme

Danskin’s Logic Pro Blog
http://logicblog.info/

Advertise Me Royalty Free Music Now Available!

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Advertise Me Royalty Free Music

Is a song made purposefully thinking on what is a mainstream type of music used in product releases and Advertisement nowadays. Its an Upbeat, energetic song full of life and dynamic with great Crescendos. Great for Advertisement, games, trailer, slideshows presentations, etc. includes drums, synths, bass, tambourine, claps, Electric guitar, vibraphone

I hope you like it, enjoy it and please don’t forget to rate!

[soundcloud url=»https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/155193314″ params=»color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false» width=»100%» height=»166″ iframe=»true» /]

 

Free Plugin UltraChannel by Eventide until July 8

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Free Plugin UltraChannel by Eventide until July 8

This is an Exceptional opportunity limited to the 8 of July, an amazing versatile plugin that you can use in a channel strip or side chain.

UltraChannel™ is Eventide’s new 64-bit native channel strip plug-in for AU, VST, and AAX64 for Mac and PC featuring micro pitch functionality from our flagship H8000, stereo delays with variable feedback paths, plus two stages of compression, gating, and five bands of parametric EQ. UltraChannel is available as a free download through midnight July 8, 2014, after which it will cost $249.
UltraChannel features a pair of dynamics processors: the O-Pressor™, capable of extreme compression (this is the compressor section of the Omnipressor®) and a conventional compressor with de-essing and side-chain capability.

UltraChannel™ also offers Soft-Saturation, and Transformer emulation which recreates transformer core saturation. This feature adds harmonics to low frequency material while remaining relatively transparent to the rest of signal. While relatively subtle, in aggregate, Transformer can bring life to otherwise dull mixes and help glue disparate sound sources together.

 

 

FlexiPath™ routing allows drag and drop for reordering the signal path of the top level components (O-Pressor, compressor/de-esser, EQ, Gate).

UltraChannel includes a variety of factory presets tailored to signal sources such as guitar, bass, kick drum, snare, piano, strings, synths and vocals. A number of the presets were created by Eventide artists.

How to get it

UltraChannel does not require you to own or use an iLok dongle, but the iLok License Manager and an ilok.com account are required to use the plugin. An ilok.com account can be created either at ilok.com or within the iLok License Manager application. Please download and install this software if it is not already installed on your computer. This application allows users to authorize up to two computers or an iLok dongle to use UltraChannel.

It will be available as a free download until July 8; then cost 249 USD. To be able to get it free, download the right file (if you are on mac or pc) fill in the form and Follow the instructions you will find at the bottom of this page, using the promo code 07D96411.

Sources:

Eventide plugin website

Hispasonic.com article (spanish site)