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Simple guidelines for WordPress 3.3 updates

Tweet If you have not yet updated your blog to WordPress 3.3, try using the auto-updating feature first. But make sure you have performed a back-up of your blog. If time is limited, pay attention to backup these important elements: a.) root directory .htaccess b.) wp-config.php c.) wp-content directory d.) other important scripts in your blog (custom-made and not part of the WordPress core files). e.) WordPress database f.) robots.txt – if you are using this. g.) wp-includes/languages –if your blog uses a language file. The...

Integrate a fully functional Q&A section in your WordPress website

Tweet Do you want to add Q&A section in your WordPress website that is fully integrated with WordPress user management system and database? With this method, your Q&A section and your WordPress website share the same database and user-management system. In this beginner tutorial, you will be using “Question2Answer” which is an open source Q&A platform that can provide similar functionality to top question and answer websites like StackOverflow. This tutorial will illustrate the complete steps of integrating this Q&A...

How to Create a WordPress Friendly robots.txt File

Tweet Let’s get one thing clear. Robots.txt isn’t just a fancy file for webmaster-purists and professional SEOs. In fact, every WordPress developer should know a thing or two about the file and why it’s so important for every blog’s SEO.So first, here’s the big question: What is robots.txt and why is it important? Speaking as the captain obvious: it’s simply a file. But there is one interesting thing about it. It isn’t displayed to the actual visitors anywhere on the blog itself. Instead, it sits in the root directory of...

Learning Thematic hooks and creating Thematic child theme

Tweet WordPress helps you build professional sites with minimum efforts required. To give your WordPress site a unique look one needs to create a custom theme to give your site the unique identity. But creating a WordPress theme from scratch could be a tedious process . So in the article I am going to explain how you can use the Thematic Theme framework and create child theme using the Thematic hooks.Step 1: Getting Thematic framework.The thematic framework is licensed under GPL like WordPress and can be downloaded from the WordPress...

Tweet When you run ads on your WordPress site, sometimes you need to block ads being shown in certain countries. That’s what I’m doing to block visitors from some countries viewing ads to protect my Adsense account. Image source: Google Adsense Blog Traffic source from some certain countries may harm your Google Adsense account. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to write your own WordPress plugin to do it. I won’t try to build a complex plugin, but keep it simple; and sure, you can develop...

How to trigger ideas to write new article

Tweet It is true that sometimes being a blogger may face situations where I would personally like to call it your brain juices got dried upas you have pretty much ran out of topic to blog and you are in crisis as your readers are anxiously waiting for your new posts but you are unable to give in.That’s when you will probably come with excuses like I just posted last week although that post was more directly towards the newbies who stop themselves from making money but it’s still pretty much the same even though you...