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WordPress 3.0 Custom Menus Hidden Settings

October 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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The other day, I was playing around with the new WordPress menus that came with version 3.0 and up; I created a new menu and throwed some pages and posts in the same menu, which was a cool and an easy task. I figure out that  you can create a custom link with whatever you like in it, so I added all my social networks in a sub-menu, which was an easy task too, until I find out that when you click one of this external links on the menu, it opened on the same page, and since I didn’t want my visitors to leave my blog but to open the external link in a new window, it got me thinking that this was worthless. I started looking into the code which took me a lot of time and no results, then I started browsing the web and stumble upon a thread at wordpress.org that had the answer to my problem. While reading it, I felt so stupid because the answer was just standing in front of me all this time. I found out that day that WordPress is becoming extremely friendly and easy to manipulate, We … [Read more...]

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Figthing SPAM with Akismet for FREE

October 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Akismet or Automattic Kismet is a spam filtering service. It attempts to filter spam from blog comments and spam TrackBack pings. The filter works by combining information about spam captured on all participating blogs, and then using those spam rules to block future spam. It is an Incredible tool to use if you have a WordPress Blog or Site. I receive about 10 to 15 spam comments daily, if those add up at the end of the month I will end up with 450 or so spam comments, Akismet will  handle this for you in a very efficient way. But there has been some controversy on how AKISMET started charging for its service, when they use to be free. Most people will go and try to create an account, but will get the surprise of a paid service. Well let me show you how you can get it for free. First you need to create an account at http://akismet.com/ Then you need to select a package, which now is a little confusing since every package has a paid amount, but don’t you worry , you … [Read more...]

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Removing unnecessary code for Performance and Security

October 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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A few lines of extra code in your header probably won’t slow your site down or risk performance, but you would like to keep things as clean and efficient as possible, since it only takes one line at the time to end up with a load of unnecessary code piled up on your wordpress blog, and that will surely slow it down from time to time. This tip will not only help add up to your Blogs Security but will help with performance by removing unnecessary code from your Blog. Since Wordpress uses the function wp_head() to add a bunch of code to the header of each page. Some of it is absolutely unnecessary. By default, many WordPress themes include the version information in the document this information proves very useful for the hackers as they can easily target blogs that are using the older version of wordpress software. Here is what many themes use to display this info: <meta name="generator" content="WordPress <?php bloginfo('version'); ?>" /> To prevent this … [Read more...]

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Giving an article a private members only feature

October 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Do you want certain articles from your Wordpress Blog to be accessed only by logged-in members? You don't have to install a plugin to turn your Wordpress Blog into a membership site, you just have to unlock some features that Wordpress comes with out of the box, but many users simply doesn't know about. You can use this feature for: Online education centers where registered students can access their learning material Share download links or information for member only visitors A place to gather ideas for a project restricted to team members only. Valuable Information worth sharing to subscribers You can password protect it so that only the users that are logged in to your blog are allowed the access to your post. This option is available on your ‘add new post’ under the publish box. You have to click on ‘edit’ next to ‘visibility public’, change the settings and add a password if you want it protected and then click publish. Giving an article a … [Read more...]

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Securing WordPress Configuration Files

September 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Every WordPress installation contains a configuration file called wp-config.php that holds essential data for your Web site to work and  it’s located in your WordPress installation directory. Important and secret information is stored on this file. Lets say you allready installed WordPress in a different directory other than you main public html directory ( If you haven't check out How to install WordPress on a different directory) in order to secure it from bots and hackers , but if some hacker setup bots to crawl for your wp-config.php file and gets to it , he could easily learn all about your installation not to mention where your database is stored, the username and password, remember that this database is where all your articles, pages, comments, and all the information that you have or will have on your WordPress blog or site is stored; In malicious hands, this could be disastrous. Here is a list of what is stored on your wp-config.php file Database name Database … [Read more...]

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Giving WordPress its own Zip Code

June 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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We are used to install WordPress at the root directory on our web hosting servers, usually html or www directory e.g. http://bloggermind.net ,  but you don't want all the WordPress files cluttering up in here. WordPress allows you to install the WordPress files to a subdirectory, bt transparently your blog will exist in the site root. e.g. You may have all the WordPress files at http://bloggermind.net/blog/ but with the following tweak all your visitors will land on http://bloggermind.net without ever knowing about the /blog/ directory. So let's get to work Create the new location for the core WordPress files to be stored (we will use /blog in our examples), use one of the 2 best ftp file managers to get access to your website and create a new subdirectory under the root. Go to the General panel at your WordPress Administration menu In the box for WordPress address (URL): change the address to the new location of your main WordPress core files. Example: … [Read more...]

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Installing WordPress in 68 different languages

June 15, 2011 By 2 Comments
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Well what if your primary language is not English and you are just using Google Translate to read this article, well good news there is a good chance WordPress is in your language.   INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS LANGUAGES AVAILABLE If you haven’t install WordPress yet , you can follow the instructions provided for your language listed at WordPress in Your Language If you have WordPress installed, then you can just go and download your language file and upload it to your languages directory Here are the steps you will need to follow to install WordPress in your language. Download the .mo language file for your language (see WordPress Language Repository and find your language file). The naming convention of the .mo files is based on the ISO-639 language code (e.g. pt for Portuguese) followed by the ISO-3166 country code (e.g. _PT for Portugal or _BR for Brazil). So, the Brazilian Portuguese file would be called pt_BR.mo, and a non-specific Portuges … [Read more...]

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Installing WordPress the D.U.D.E. way

June 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Why WordPress, well just because is one of the best [tooltip text="Content Management Systems"] CMS [/tooltip] out there, apart from being easy to use and keep up, is well-known for its beauty and cleanliness. We have tried other CMS’s like Drupal and Joomla and let me tell you, nothing compares to WordPress, I think it's because its founder Matt Mullenweg is all about Jazz and Poetry and that just reflects in the code. We love WordPress so that's all you are going to hear from us and  we will teach you how to use it from head to toe. So let's get to work, first we assume you already have a Domain and a web hosting, and you are ready to install WordPress if you still haven't I recommend taking a look at Before you buy a Domain Download | Upload  | Database | Execute D.U.D.E. Download First you have to download the WordPress files from here WORDPRESS DOWNLOAD , this link will always show the latest version of WordPress, so you can come back anytime to download it. If you … [Read more...]

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Optimizing Images in Bulk

March 20, 2010 By 1 Comment
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Why do I have to optimize my blog’s Images ? Well First the loading time of websites has a major influence on the overall user experience and the first thing to cover is how to optimize images meaning that you should resize and save each image in a format that does not uses a lot of space and since Images can create an extra load on the size of your pages. Now, Photoshop and similar image editing software include a feature called “Save for the web”. Always use this feature since it will reduce the image size and load time substantially. But these process can be time consuming and you can end up finishing an article in about 4 times what you expected, that is why we will show you how to do this in a batch, by using this little wonderful app called Fotosizer. Fotosizer is a freeware batch image resizer tool. It resizes your photos in just 3 easy steps - 1. Photo selection, 2. select resize settings, then 3. Start the resize! With Fotosizer, you can shrink JPEG image files, along … [Read more...]

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