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Latest news, plugins, themes, blogs and SEO about Wordpress platform and Website designing as a whole.

Tips and tricks to start and continue a professional and successful blog

In this article we will give you some tips for a having a successful  and professional Blog. Which hosting platform to choose? How to write articles and what topics should I choose? What are the ways to make them known to readers... taking as example the experience of TheCustomizeWindows.com which went from 0 to over 500 visitors per day with more than 2000 pageviews perday in less than four … [Read more...]

Disable all update notifications in WordPress

If you no longer wish to receive notifications of updates to your WordPress administration, a few lines of code in this tutorial will be sufficient to hide them. Updates of the core, themes and plugins will no longer appear!       Note: These tips only work for WordPress 3.0 onwards. We have not checked for WP 3.5 upwards.   Hide update notification from the core of … [Read more...]

Create a custom login page in WordPress

This tutorial will show you how to set up a custom login page in WordPress. No special knowledge required for it. To log into WordPress administration, it is convenient to go through one of two following URLs:     [crayon-633cf02117fcd415615322-i/]   This method is however not very friendly if you allow the registration of new users. In fact, unless you know WordPress, you … [Read more...]

Disable WordPress administrator bar under 3.1 for all users

The 3.1 version of WordPress adds an administrator bar directly on the front end of your site. Although it can be disabled for each account, this tip will teach you how to delete it directly from functions.php.   Go to the menu, then Appearance and then to Editor. In the right sided list, click the functions.php file. However, we advise you to backup through an FTP client to easily make a … [Read more...]

How to change the smilies / emotions in WordPress

WordPress offers a variety of native smilies automatically generated when you enter the shortcut to which they refer. For example, typing ":)" WordPress will convert the text into an image when the publication of an article for a smiley like this. Here is a simple trick that will allow you to replace default emoticons with your own what is sure to give a more personal character to your site or … [Read more...]

Create a custom menu location for WordPress

Since WordPress 3.0, there has never been easier to create and edit navigation menus . This feature is nevertheless complicated to use if your theme does not support the location of menus.   In this tutorial, we will see how to define a site of custom navigation menu. In other words, it will be possible to indicate directly from the module and Appearance menu, where it will be displayed by … [Read more...]

SEO advantages of using url shortener services

There are several shortener services or shortening urls shortener of urls as, among them most known or important, are:  bit.ly, tinyurl.com, short.ie. Some services are offered by big web players like Google as goo.gl with some sites like Twitter micro blogging with twurl or tweetburner. The aim of this article is not to mention all the URL shortener services but to try to understand whether … [Read more...]

15 Tips to secure your WordPress site

Some time ago we had a problem with our Wordpress site suffered a little hacking. So to stop these happening again, we applied some tips to help secure our WordPress site. Here are some tricks that might help you too.   Updating and changing password: 1) We know it is boring but we will never repeat it enough, but a strong password is the best line of defense. Do not choose a traditional … [Read more...]

How to write great blog articles : fight blank page syndrome

We often hear from our fellow bloggers, "I am scratching my head to write an article, but can not find anything !". Here are some tips to write new articles everyday.  Here are some tricks which we follow to present you nice writings everyday.   Twitter: It is a source of information. Often known bloggers tweet or not information that you can develop in an article. Also, you can stay … [Read more...]

How to install WordPress on Windows 7 to test themes and plugins offline

Testing a new theme or plugin for developing them or just for normal usage in server is risky. Just imagine the risk when we try a new plugin or modify the theme's CSS file : there are always many visitors are surfing the website; it happens the plugin or the modification in CSS file was not done rightly and, as the Wordpress guy says "sky will fall on your head" : it really happens. We upgraded … [Read more...]

Blog versus forum : Present versus history

Like Coke versus Pepsi, BMW versus Mercedes, another debate arising  now: Blog versus forum. We will discuss a brief history of both, present and possible future of both.   Definitions   Blog : A shared on-line journal where people can post diary entries about their personal experiences and hobbies; "postings on a blog are usually in chronological order". (Reference)   Forum : … [Read more...]