The principle of child theme is to enable the modification and adding features to a parent theme without introducing any change to the parent theme. The major advantage is the ability to receive updates for the parent theme while continuing changes in the child theme. Two minutes effort is enough to create a child theme! Not that you need premium platform based themes like Thesis, Genesis; you … [Read more...]
WordPress 3.2 is coming : are you ready?
Following the official announcement on the blog of WordPress almost 8 months ago, we now know what they have stored and probably cooking for us in the coming years. Indeed, the announcement was radical about the next steps in WordPress. In the near future, evolution and the approach of WordPress will change. Policy since the beginning was to open up to anyone to host a WordPress installation and … [Read more...]
How to configure and use Windows Live Writer for blogging
Microsoft Windows Live Writer tool, is specifically designed for bloggers - both beginners and experienced, including support for WordPress and Blogger blogs. Read this tutorial to learn how to configure your blog in Live Writer and so to have a blogging tool that is easy to use and incorporate features useful to start in the wonderful world of blogging. Presentation First, one question comes to … [Read more...]
Highlight, add pressed effects to certain words in your WordPress blog
Just after publication of the previous post; one of our Tweeter follower asked, how we have highlighted certain words in that post. Actually, it is very easy, no big knowledge of coding or even installation of plugin is required. In order to highlight and add effects to certain words in your WordPress blog in Wordpress, just follow these easy steps. We will use span style to indicate the browser … [Read more...]
Highlight search results in WordPress with jQuery
This PHP hack for WordPress enables you to highlight keywords in the search results of your WordPress site. We will use jQuery, a language built natively inside of WordPress. Adding a PHP command in functions.php From the Theme Editor, open the file called functions.php or open by your favorite FTP client by locating it in the directory / wp-content/themes/Your-Theme / Using an FTP … [Read more...]
14 essential tips for securing your WordPress site
The security of a WordPress site is not to be taken lightly. Hacking of Wordpress site can happen to anyone and with these 14 tips will help limit potential damage. This is when everything works correctly we should take action for prevention beforehand. Backup your site fully and regularly WordPress Before any work, do a regular backup of your WordPress site. You must save the following … [Read more...]
Increase visitors from search engines by distributing pdf files
In a reference work it may be interesting to index your documents online. Typically when a company makes a white paper available on its website, it is in PDF format. The advantage of this format is that it preserves the formatting (fonts, pictures, graphical objects etc.) as it was defined by its author. Indeed, when you send a Microsoft Word document has a back draw, it does not necessarily use … [Read more...]
Guide to optimize content of your blog for mobile devices
A few days ago we wrote an article on the Mobile SEO, however, today during revision of our posts we found it is incomplete and therefore we are taking you deeper into the knowledge of referencing a mobile website. However, the you might read that article too, as it is complementary to that post. After the launch of Apple's iPhone, it has indeed brought done a real boost to the smartphone market, … [Read more...]
Create mouse hover effect for button using CSS sprite
You must have noticed buttons in various websites that change its appearance on mouse hover. Typical example is the download buttons in Mozilla Firefox website's download link. Below is a tutorial to create one such button, on mouse hover the button changes its color from blue to red. We need few things in hand: couple of buttons (one for before hover and one after hover). You can … [Read more...]
Get maximum SEO benefit from backlinks and outgoing links
Earlier in some articles, we have mentioned that all out going links from your website to other website are not bad, in other article said, nowadays some forums does not allow members to post links of their websites so they are using seo link building services, which in turn, might be not so good for SEO. Today, we will outline some essential points to create links in a manner to gets the maximum … [Read more...]
Several ways to use the file wp-config
The file is not just to find out information on the database or the user of it ... Here's some interesting information in the configuration of your blog with the wp-config: The Trash of WordPress: The comments, articles are not deleted but go directly into the trash. You can then write this code in the wp-config.php to empty the Trash after 14 … [Read more...]