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Thesis 2.1: Top 8 New Features and Updates
A popular WordPress design and template manager, Thesis gave its followers a cause for celebration several months ago by releasing a feature-packed update, Thesis…
Changing WordPress wp-admin Path Using Lockdown WP Admin
WordPress is a secure-ish system by default but there are still several things that can be changed to make it a more secure environment.…
Clean WordPress Comment Meta Table: Get Rid Of Akismet Meta And Table Overhead
Cleaning up your tables from time to time is a job every webmaster should do to keep the site running smoothly. It is generally…
How To Delete WordPress Comments Labeled Spam via PHPMyAdmin
Alright, so most of the guides out there don’t actually tell you how to delete comments labeled spam, they only tell you how to…
Recent Botnet WordPress Attack: How to Secure a WordPress Website
In light of the recent WordPress attack where a botnet of “tens of thousands” of computers tried gaining access to WordPress blogs across the…
Video: How To Use Custom Social Media Share Buttons For WordPress – Code Provided
In general, I just use one of the many available plugins for WordPress to include social share buttons on my web site. But sometimes,…
20 WordPress Security Tips And Best Practices To Secure Your Blog
In this article we will discuss WordPress security and give you 20 tips to enhance the security of your blog. Tip 1: Consider Htaccess Authentication to…
A Guide to How to Add Polls on WordPress Part 1
It’s been said before, social media should be a conversation and not a broadcast. However, have you ever considered that the same was true…
How to Create Polls for Your WordPress Site and Use Them Strategically – Part 2
This post is a continuation from Part 1. In the first part we talked about some of the reasons to create polls. And we…
The Best WordPress Security Plugin For 2013 (Triagis Reviewed)
There are a lot of security plugins out there for WordPress, but most fail to address the basic needs that we need to feel…
Can a Pinterest-friendly WordPress site boost up your traffic?
Can a Pinterest-friendly WordPress site boost up your traffic? The main reason why a Pinterest-like page is welcome to WordPress is that the former…
How To Secure Your Wp-Admin Backend: Htaccess Apache Authentication
As a result of the recent brute force attacks on self hosted WordPress sites, I decided to create a second level of authentication for…
An Amazing WordPress Plugin For Copywriters: Landing Pages
Many people ask me, “What are some good WordPress plugins and themes for which Copywriters can use to make their lives easier?”. While there…
Video: Guide to Secure Passwords and Gaining Access to WordPress When You Forget Your Password
There’s few things as important than (or as mildly annoying as) passwords. When you’re working online in general, your password is your master key.…
Video: Switching to a Better Sitemap for WordPress
The Google XML Sitemap Generator plugin for WordPress was at one point the standard for dynamically generating an XML Sitemap in the WordPress environment.…
Plugins to Avoid Using on Your WordPress Site, Some Alternate Recommendations, and 2 Worth Using on All Installs – Part 1
In this article I’d like to discuss a handful of WordPress plugins that would probably serve you well to avoid using on your WordPress…
Video: Simple Way to Add Schema.org Marked Up Review to WordPress Posts
If you’ve written a review in your WordPress blog and want to dress it up a little nicer with some extra “markup” (often called…
Things to Consider When Launching a New WordPress Web Site
Until recently I had a very simplified checklist for launching a site powered by WordPress. The steps were basically as follows: a) Buy web…
Best Free WordPress eCommerce Plugin: An Overview Of The Premium eStore Plugin By Tips & Tricks HQ
The developers at Tips & Tricks HQ put together a free plugin for WordPress that makes it very simple to add an “Add to…
7 Ways How To SEO Your WordPress Website
Everyone knows that WordPress is an awesome platform for blogs, websites, and the like because it’s highly customizable. Plus it provides you with all…
Plugins to Avoid Using on Your WordPress Site, Some Alternate Recommendations, and 2 Worth Using on All Installs – Part 2
In the first part of this article I talked about how I came about this list from WPEngine and I talked about the first…
Beginner: How to embed media into a WordPress blog post
Whether the goal is to get your message put across in different ways, engage with web site visitors using richer media, increase visiting time…
How to set up a WordPress eCommerce Site using WooCommerce
Product owners, whether having digital or physical products, or a combination of the two, like to “set up shop” on the Internet as a…
Top 5 Giveaway Tools for a WordPress Blogger
Every successful blogger knows that updating your blog with engaging material on a regular basis is a must if you want to grow your…
Top 4 Professional Networking Platforms
We live in an age where a big bulk of our social interaction happens online. Social media platforms provide a fantastic opportunity to network…
WordPress For Beginners: I Just Bought a WordPress Blog, Now What? I Say Change the Theme First
My friend just bought a WordPress blog that was setup as a WordPress Network (although the network part isn’t currently being used). He first…
WordPress Security Measures – Advanced
I wrote an article recently about applying some of the more common security tweaks to WordPress to make it a more robust system than…
35 Best Free WordPress Plugins of All Time (And For 2017)
WordPress is one of the best free content management systems / blog system that powers millions of websites and an incredibly high percentage of…
Using XAMPP and WordPress To Develop Websites Locally From A Remote PC Over Your Home Network
XAMPP is a great way to get started with local development of your site – if you have a spare PC or laptop you…
Video: Advanced Anti-Spam Tip for WordPress
Have you been getting spam comments to your WordPress blog? If not, it’d be rare if it never happens to you unless you already…
3 Tips To Speed Up Your WordPress Blog Or PHP Based Site Without A Caching Add On
Caching web site files that do not change frequently can decrease load time for a web site significantly. Decreased load time means that pages…
Top 10 Free WordPress Themes for Professionals
WordPress is arguably the top blogging platform AND content management system on the Web, and it’s freely available. In addition, it is robust, extensible,…
How to Build an Amazon Store with WordPress
Amazon is a very popular online store that sells a wide variety of products, especially from the original U.S. based Amazon site. It even…
7 Best SEO Practices for WordPress
Optimizing your site for search engines should be on top of your to-do list as a webmaster. And while writing unique and interesting content…