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WordPress — The Most Simple and Effective Blogging Service

Posted on March 3, 2011

wordpressIt is often that I am asked this question by entry level eager bloggers that is the WordPress really the best choice for us? They seem worried to me about setting up their blog and making it successfully popular. My natural answer to their petrified souls is yes; the WordPress is the most easy to use and best blogging service out there.

WordPress: Advantages and a New Way to Get Across Your Ideas and Opinions

Posted on March 3, 2011

WordPressWordPress is an online blogging tool which allows you the ability to host your own domain name, publish articles to the online world with ease, have others comment your thoughts, and allows many people to communicate whatever they want, from something such as a personal journal to a business news blog.

There are many blogging sites around, so why should you choose WordPress over the competition?

The answer is simple, for it's many features and options.

Best Ways to Secure WordPress

Posted on February 27, 2011

It’s a common issue that password hackers wander challenging the techno-minds and website owners who hack upon blogs and websites pilfering the secure information.

The damage caused is inimitable to fit the original stuff, hitting the popularity of the blog over their top rank in the search engines that earns more profit.

WordPress Website - Security

How to secure your WordPress Website from hackers and malwares has always been a big question under critical circumstances! So here go with some of the hacking tips and ways to control and prevent malicious attacks to keep up security factors.

  • WP Security scans
  • WP Security Lock
  • Secure Files
  • Version upgradation
  • Password Safety

WP Security scans

Blogs can be set with freely available plug-in WP DB Backup, which restores or secures data back to the last settings. WP Security Scan free plug-in aids for blog safety.WordPress Firewall keeps a block over the suspicious entry into your WordPress.

WP Security Lock

The WP security service must fix and confer a solution to keep up the protection against hack software and damage caused to the website via hackers and malwares that destroys the website informations to risk ones business. Some of the WP security services that help in making the journey of business blogging successful are as follows
wp security

  • WP Upgrade Services
  • WP remove Malware & Restore website
  • Website integrity Monitoring
  • Website Security Monitoring
  • WP Security Audit
  • WP Security & Maintenance
  • Existing Website WP Security
  • WP Security Consultation
  • WP Security Membership Program
  • WP Security & Installation

Secure Files

Official and personal files in the Blog server can be kept hidden against illegal access by unauthorized users with an index.html file in the server directory that keeps the files hidden and secure from the public interference.

Version upgradation

Keeping updated with new version facilitates technology development that provides more advanced security settings and development in the field of blogging with security enhanced presentation.

Password Safety

Protect password from getting hacked as it affect your blogging at once, frequently changing of password at high strength of security is recommended for safety. Secure your Admin account and directory avoiding ‘Admin’ as username and password. Limit your
login account attempts on failure as Login Lockdown Plug-in records the failed login attempts from particular IP address and blocks them for a while. Remove login error message as it may give a clue on the login details.

In the recent news we have the WordPress team launching the WP Security Update 3.0.5 version that keeps safety over untrusted user account and hardens the security features against hackers at once.

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WordPress 3.1 Beta 2 Released

Posted on December 16, 2010

wordpress newsIts around a week since the WordPress 3.0.3 was released and now WordPress has announced the release of WordPress 3.1 Beta 2 and the WordPress 3.1 Beta 1 was released almost two weeks ago.Folks at WordPress are really fast in fixing the issues and releasing their updates.

WordPres just annouced the second beta of WordPress 3.1 is now available!

Already have a test install that you want to switch over to the beta? Try the beta tester plugin. Please test 3.1 on a test site, not on your live site, as interactions with plugins that haven’t been updated may be unpredictable, (see how that works?) whether something will break or not… that’s why test everything!

Download the WordPress 3.1 Beta 2 now.

Download Official WordPress App for Windows Phone 7

Posted on December 16, 2010

WordPress just announced its latest official WordPress app for Windows Phone 7.

WordPress for Windows Phone 7 makes it easy to manage your blog or website while on the move.wordpress for windows phone 7Writing and editing Posts and Pages is a breeze, as well as being able to quickly moderate comments and check statistics. And it's all made to get you in and out quickly.

WordPress app for Windows Phone 7 can be downloaded from Windows Phone 7 apps marketplace or from official site of WordPress for Windows Phone 7 for free.

Download WordPress App for Windows Phone 7

Magazine3 – Premium WordPress Magazine Themes

Posted on December 15, 2010

Magazine3 is a new premium WordPress theme club with a focus on creating innovative WordPress magazine themes. They currently have three magazine themes available: Ultimate Showbiz, GameUp & StyleLife, and plan to release two high quality themes each month.
Magazine Basic
Here is the detail about the 3 themes they are offering right now.

1. StyleLife - StyleLife is elegant, unique & colorful Lifestyle WordPress Magazine Theme that gives a whole new look to your website. Its loaded with backend options panels and functionality.stylelifetheme
2. GameUp - GameUp is minimal yet elegant WordPress Gaming magazine theme. Its a perfect theme for Gaming portals and Gaming blogs. GameUp can give your website a total fresh look.gameup
3. Ultimate Showbiz -  Ultimate Showbiz is perfect wordpress theme for Entertainment websites, Media Portals and Entertainment News Blogs. Very Flexible Cms type WordPress Theme with a great features.
ultimate showbiz

How to Customize the Background With CSS in Genesis

Posted on December 14, 2010

This quick tip will show you how you can customize the background with a few simple changes to your style.css file. Remember, it’s very important that you customize Genesis by using the sample child theme they provide. This will ensure your changes won’t be overridden by a Genesis theme update.

Moving along, we are going to make the default Genesis theme which looks like this:

genesis white small

And with a few simple lines of code turn it into this:

genesis gray small

You’ll notice that the bottom image has a gray background, and also nicely showcases a box-shadow effect that is new to CSS3. In order to get this look, simply open up your style.css file and we’ll make a few changes.

The first thing we want to do is add the background color, so find this at the top of of your stylesheet:

body {
	color: #333333;
	font-size: 12px;
	font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana;
	margin: 0 auto 0;
	padding: 0;
	line-height: 20px;
	}

And then add this line to define the background:

background: #999999;

Your stylesheet should now look like this:

body {
	background: #999999;
	color: #333333;
	font-size: 12px;
	font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana;
	margin: 0 auto 0;
	padding: 0;
	line-height: 20px;
	}

Next, we need to modify the #wrap just a bit to accommodate the new background. Find this:

#wrap {
	width: 960px;
	margin: 0 auto 0;
	padding: 0;
	}

And replace it with this:

#wrap {
	background: #FFFFFF;
	width: 960px;
	margin: 15px auto 15px;
	padding: 10px;
	-moz-box-shadow: 0 3px 3px #333333;
	-webkit-box-shadow: 0 3px 3px #333333;
	}

Save your changes, and then upload the new style.css file to your server and you’re done!

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How to Create a New Featured Image Size in Genesis

Posted on December 14, 2010

When WordPress 2.9 was released, along with it came support for featured images. Originally termed post thumbnails, this capability made it very easy for folks who developed news and magazine style site to include smaller images on a homepage.

The Genesis theme framework was built to include this feature and there are many instances it can be used – whether it be on a category archive page, an author archive page or a homepage.

Many people know that WordPress provides you a way of defining sized of images that you can place into a post. If you go to Settings > Media page in your dashboard, you will see something like this:

media settings

The problem that many of us run into is that we want to display featured images of various sizes (in additional to the default 150px by 150px thumbnail size) throughout our site. Thankfully, the Genesis theme framework has a built-in feature that allows you to define additional featured images sizes.

To create a new featured image size, all you need to do is open up your child theme’s functions.php file, and place this code anywhere after the opening <?php and before the closing ?> tags:

// Add new image sizes
add_image_size('Homepage Thumbnail', 120, 80, TRUE);

So your child theme’s functions.php file might start out looking like this:

<?php
// Start the engine
require_once(TEMPLATEPATH.'/lib/init.php');

// Add new image sizes
add_image_size('Homepage Thumbnail', 120, 80, TRUE);

The code above will generate featured images that are 120px wide by 80px high and label it Homepage Thumbnail. There are a few places that you’ll now be able to use the new featured image size. The first, and most obvious, is for magazine style homepages that have a featured section.

An example of that would be the Lifestyle child theme homepage, and would look like this:

lifestyle featured images

The other location would include any blog, archive, author, blog, category, search, and tag pages. To define the featured image size used here, you can select that in the “Content Archives” section on the Genesis > Theme Settings page in your WordPress dashboard.

An example of that would be the AgentPress child theme category archive page, and would look like this:

agentpress featured image

Keep in mind that anytime you define an additional featured image size while using the code above, it will show as an option in the dropdown menus when using the Genesis Featured Post widget or the “Content Archives” option on the Theme Settings page.

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How to Add Google AdSense To Your Posts in Genesis

Posted on December 14, 2010

With the Genesis theme framework, adding “blocks of code” and placing them into certain areas on a site can easily be done with action hooks. The following tutorial will walk you through how to add Google AdSense to your posts.

Below you will see a screenshot that will show you the result of this tutorial:

adsense posts

Step #1

The first thing you’ll want to do is establish the CSS that you’ll need for the AdSense block. Inside your child theme’s style.css file, add this code:

/***** AdSense Post ********************/

.adsense-post {
    float: right;
    margin: 0 0 10px 10px;
    }

This piece of code will create a container that will float to the right and be wrapped by the post content. If you want the AdSense block to be floated left, simply change the code to this:

/***** AdSense Post ********************/

.adsense-post {
    float: left;
    margin: 0 10px 10px 0;
    }

Step #2

Next, you’ll want to create a file where you will place your AdSense code. You will also need to define the container for the code as well, so you create a file called adsense-post.php and place this into it:

<div class="adsense-post">
    <script type="text/javascript"><!--
    google_ad_client = "pub-4010093622692910";
    /* 250x250, created 7/27/10 */
    google_ad_slot = "3220529950";
    google_ad_width = 250;
    google_ad_height = 250;
    //-->

    </script>
    <script type="text/javascript"
    src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
    </script>
</div>

Obviously you will replace the sample AdSense code with your own.

Step #3

Now that you have defined the style and created the php file for your AdSense code, you have to establish a way to implement it into your site. Open your child theme’s functions.php file and find this code:

<?php
// Start the engine
require_once(TEMPLATEPATH.'/lib/init.php');

Immediately after that, place the code below:

// Place Google AdSense code into post
add_action('genesis_before_post_content', 'include_adsense_post', 9);
function include_adsense_post() {
    if ( is_single() )
    require(CHILD_DIR.'/adsense-post.php');
}

The code above creates a function that says “if this is a single post, hook the adsense-post.php file just above the post content”. Because you defined your Google AdSense container to float: right, this allows the post to wrap itself around your box.

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How to Display Recent Posts in WordPress

Posted on December 14, 2010

wp recent postsWordPress have lots of potential as it has wide range of codes and plugins which can be used to extend its functionality.There are many guides and tutorials are also available.

Today we come up with a snippet of code which one can use to display recent posts in wordpress.

To display recent posts in wordpress just paste the code below where you want the recent posts to appear.

<?php query_posts('showposts=5'); ?>
<ul>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endwhile;?>
</ul>

This will help you display recent posts in wordpress if you are looking for more guides related to wordperss then keep checking this blog frequently and you will find more cool tutorials and info related to wordpress.