To start this series of performance tuning of your WordPress blog, we propose a simple procedure yet very effective to make your site running fast by adding a code snipplet to .htaccess file. This will greatly reduce the weight of your pages without direct action from you on their content. A comparison before and after modification should convince you of the usefulness of this … [Read more...]
Indispensable MySQL queries for custom fields in WordPress
WordPress stores the data (articles, pages, categories, etc) in a MySQL database. It is therefore useful to know some codes to create a custom Wordpress based website. Note: This post includes MySQL queries for creating the custom fields in WordPress CMS (you can use for blog based design too). Before working in your database, take a backup first. You are responsible for your … [Read more...]
How to use your domain name as OpenID
OpenID is an authentication system that allows you to connect in a secure manner, on several Web services using the same identifier. Do you know that you can use your blog (domain name) as address OpenID? In fact, you only delegate your domain name service provider to OpenID. Using your domain name to identify yourself on a site or service that supports OpenID, are often easier … [Read more...]
Create an archive page listing of articles in WordPress sorted by date
This tutorial discusses a method to automatically create an archive page in Wordpress showing all your articles chronologically by dates. Recall that, Wordpress by default shows archives by month. To implement this chronological archival page, we will suggest you to use a separate page template to avoid changing your theme. However, you may directly take the … [Read more...]
Change the password of a user via phpMyAdmin WordPress
The MySQL database for WordPress stores all user passwords in the table wp_users. With phpMyAdmin, learn to generate new passwords for each user account in your WordPress installation. This is very useful in case of loss of password! How to Reset Password in Wordpress We need to access phpMyAdmin account first. Which is just the tool for managing MySQL databases via a web … [Read more...]
What are Robots.txt and sitemap
Robots.txt For web pages to be indexed, we need programs, robots, scour the net in search of unknown or changed pages to be added to the engine. When it crawls your site, the first thing he wants is a text file robots.txt. This file can give polite requests to search engine bots. You can tell them they have the right to access your site and if they can index all or a specific page. For … [Read more...]
Management of Gravatars in WordPress
A gravatar is a miniaturized image that is associated with an e-mail. Implemented in the WordPress commenting system by default, this feature is a way to brighten up the look of your blog but also to identify you when you leave a quick comment - as well as an author, guest. To have the gravatar on your blog, no plugin is required. Only 3 steps are required: Create an … [Read more...]
How to automatically publish your blog posts on Twitter and Facebook?
Publishing post links manually on Twitter or Facebook page really take too much time.There are ways to do it automatically from blogging platforms such as Wordpress or Blogger. One of our friend has asked us how to do it, as he can not find out the way to do it. Writing this tutorial here will help him, as well as help thousands of people seeking the answer. You probably also … [Read more...]
Create a favicon for your WordPress blog
Branding is a very important factor on the web to differentiate yourself from others, to demonstrate your professional side. Favicon also carries a mark for the SEO too. What is a favicon? A favicon is simply a small picture that appears next to the site's address, also in the tabs, favorites, bookmarks etc. The advantage is that you can immediately recognize the site in question … [Read more...]
Integrate the system of Twitter hashtags in WordPress posts
Twitterify is an Wordpress plugin extension that allows you to integrate an advanced type Hashtags "at your facility WordPress . No options are available, but it simplifies the management of internal links via this system. Taking the principle of majority Twitter, and it adds additional information to your content, leading to the different keywords of your blog as well as authors. The basic … [Read more...]
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...]