WangGuard protects your website from sploggers and spambots, it protects your from their spam users collecting their data on websites it operates by using one centralized database. On every new registration, the plugin checkes the user’s data into its database in order to delete it of suspicions, and protect website from fake or spam registrations.
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WordPress provides you a number of permalinks structure. We have already discussed about what is a permalink and how to choose SEO friendly permalink. In this tutorial you will learn how to use custom permalinks on per post basis in WordPress. At the time of writing any blog post you can edit its complete URL structure and use your own slugs and slashes (/).
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Claudia Romani is a supermodel. She has appeared on covers of popular magazines like Cosmopolitan, GQ and Maxim etc. In 2006 she was voted one of the 100 Sexiest Women in the World by FHM Denmark. Now a days she is based in Miami, Florida. Claudia has appeared on commercials for Samsung, Toyota, and Ford. In the Latin market she has appeared in shows like Noche de Perros and Despierta America. She is also the official model on the TV show Esta Noche Tu Night on Mega TV.
A child theme simply inherits the functionality of any WordPress theme. Child themes enables you to edit or add new functionalities to main parent theme without digging inside its code files. The features added to a child theme overrides the features of main theme and hence it is the safest way for adding custom CSS, custom hacks and the best thing is that the code added to a child theme doesn’t gets lost after new updates.
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Now you have successfully installed WordPress, now what’s next? It’s time to login and make a few changes to give your website a good look and make it ready for your visitors. There are some important things need to setup soon after the installation. For example: switching to a SEO friendly permalink structure, adding your time zone, choosing a date format, filling out the empty sidebars with useful widgets etc. This tutorial covers some basic options you should setup soon after installing WordPress.
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Modal login is a beautiful feature, you must have noticed on Twitter, clicking a Twitter profile open a popup with a close button and no lightbox overlay, that is called a modal box. In this tutorial we are sharing a list of three modal box plugins designed for logging in to WorPress dashboard. You can use in your WordPress installation so that whenever your users try logging-in, they see a modal box instead of getting redirected to default WordPress login page.
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Starting a WordPress blog or website is easy at Sangkrit.net as you don’t have to set any manual configuration. You can bring your website online in one click by using the one-click WordPress installer.
Sangkrit.net’s user-friendly interface starts guiding you as soon as you log in to your account. It starts the step-by-step guidance from registering/transferring a domain name to subscribing to a hosting plan and then installing WordPress.
To start, first of all, sign up for your free Sangkrit.net account, then follow the given steps:
The first thing you need to do is get a website hosting plan, and a domain name. Then log in to your Sangkrit.net account and launch Installatron, a one-click website installer.
Select the Application Browser tab:
Scroll down to the ‘Apps for Content Management’ section and click ‘WordPress‘.
Clicking ‘WordPress‘ opens up its installation page showing you details and features of a WordPress-based website. Here you can take an application demo, check other websites using the same application, etc.
To start the WordPress installation process, click ‘+install this application‘ button.
This asks you to select a domain/subdomain/directory for installing your new WordPress website. If you are already running a website on your main domain then you can either go for a subdomain or use a subdirectory for installation.
Scroll down to the ‘Settings‘ section and type in your new website username, password, and admin email, and then click the ‘Install’ button.
It takes a few seconds and then provides you with your new website address and admin section URL from where you can log in and start managing your WordPress website.
Blogging network like WordPress.com provides you sub-domain addresses like http://example.wordpress.com but you can register a new custom domain with us, such as yourdomain.com and then map it to your existing WordPress.com blog. So that when your website visitors arrive, they will see your own domain name in their browser instead of something prefixed with WordPress.com which is your original website address.
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There are large number of question and answer community websites on Internet. A questions & answers website enables you to ask specific questions on various topics or search and answer the questions posted by others, some websites like new.spring.me allows you to do everything anonymously. Earlier we have discussed about creating your own Questions & Answers website with WordPress.We have also posted a tutorial on Top 3 Free Question & Answer Plugins. And now in this tutorial we are sharing a list of top 5 best questions and answers websites you can use for taking part in active online conversations for promoting your website etc etc.
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StumbleUpon is a great service for discovering new websites and webservices etc of your interests. The website provides you a wide range of categories which you can add to your interests list and the one click and you will automatically get redirected to a new random website of your interest. In this tutorial we will show you how to discover new blogs with your StumbleUpon account. If you don’t have a StumbleUpon account then sign-up for it, its free.
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Most websites provides you a PinIt button so that you can easily pin images to your pinboard but there are many websites which doesn’t provides you any PinIt option. For example: If you are willing to pin any theme from WordPress theme repository or may be if you like pinning a Flickr image and there are many other popular websites that doesn’t offers any pinit button. Pinterest’s pinit button is generally popular among the blogging websites and not on social media and networking services.
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A few months backs we have posted a list of Top 3 Tabbed Widget Plugins. In this tutorial we will be showing you the usage of a new awesome tabbed widget which is very much different from last three tabbed widget. Widgets In Tabs can group any number of widgets into one tabbed and light widget which works beautifully with most WordPress themes. Unlike to other tabbed widget plugins, Widgets In Tabs is not limited to specific widget types but it allows you to add any widget in its animated tabbed display.
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Earlier we have posed a tutorial on searching and inserting free creative commons images directly from add new/edit post pages in WordPress. Now this tutorial is about inserting dreamstime stock images inside your WordPress blog posts, pages and other post type using same old ‘Add Media’ thick box. Dreamstime Stock Photos is a WordPress plugin which enables you to search and insert images into your content from Dreamstime’s vast database of Royalty-Free stock photos & illustrations.
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Now you can instantly preview any links on any website simply by hovering over to it. Works great for social media and networking sites like Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, Google+, where you generally see new links and short URLs and don’t know here it is going to take you, special while searching topics on Twitter hashtags and Facebook groups. It also works as a big time saver as you don’t need to do anything for previewing any link, simply hover it and it shows the preview in an instant bubble box. The bubble is as clear that you can read the content inside it or view images in larger resolutions without opening them on new tab.
SwiftPreview is a simple Google Chrome extension designed to view a customizable preview of any link on internet. You can see the website behind the link before you actually click. All previews are fast and dynamic.
It allows you to pin the preview using control key and scroll preview contents when pinned (link previews). Another good feature of the extension is that you can watch YouTube videos in preview, you can use internet wide photo zoom, Facebook photo zoom, also works in Gmail and it prevents common file types from downloading on mouse hover.
SwiftPreview extension is very-very easy to use. Simply add it in your Google Chrome browser. As soon the extension is added, it automatically starts working but it also provides you a button on the top right corner of Chrome, you can click that button for turning the extension ON or OFF.
You can brand your website better on social media by creating your own customized short URLs. Your own Short URLs simply means you would be able to create short URLs with your own domain name.
To start first Register a short domain with us. Bit.ly is a free short URL service so sign up a Bit.ly account then login and click on the ‘Settings‘ present on dropdown menu of your username. From the settings page, click the ‘Advanced‘ tab. Follow the instructions and add your new registered small domain name.
Now you will be needing to set A Record or say DNS Host for your domain to point to bit.ly’s IP address.
If you have registered Domain with us then you will find A record is located under the “Total DNS” tab, simply login and add DNS record and point it to the IP 69.58.188.49 (which is Bit.ly’s IP).
In-case if you are using a sub-domain name then in that case you will be needing to set a CNAME record and then point it to cname.bitly.com
It takes from 2 to 24 to 48 hours for DNS changes to propagate. You will get know about successful DNS setup at the time you would be able to set your custom short domain as default domain in your bit.ly account settings. Once the process is finished, any URL shorten from your website will automatically use your new domain name. That’s all.
WordPress users may also give a try to WP Bit.ly plugin with which you can auto create short URLs for your posts, pages and other content types right from the admin area (on post edit screen). Assuming you have already configured your bit.ly account, install and activate WP Bit.ly plugin then navigate to Dashboard -> Settings -> WP Bit.ly page. Type in your Bit.ly Username, the API Key, select post types and save the changes. That’s it, you can check it by opening any post for edit and clicking ‘Get Shortlink‘ button.
Also read our tutorial on easily creating your own URL shortner webservice.
WordPress has the power to hold various types of content. An example of a single content is known as ‘Post’, although you should know that post is nothing but a specific post type present by default in WordPress just like ‘Page’ which is another kind of post type. In general post types provides same interface you get in posts and pages but they can be customized with different fields and use them for different purposes. For Example: ‘Media’ is also a post type but it has completely different features. Internally in database, all post types are stored at the same place i.e. in wp_posts table and they are differentiated by a column called post_type.
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You must have noticed various old days websites offering a link (on homepage) titled as ‘Sitemap’. That link directs the visitor to a HTML page offering all important links present on that website. A sitemap generally contains a hierarchical or un-hierarchical list of all links but these days adding any sitemap link for visitors is not of much importance. Today sitemaps are mostly generated in XML (not HTML) and their target is search engines (not website visitors).
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In this tutorial we will show you how you can automatically set some specific websites to open in incognito mode as soon their web address hits your browser’s address bar. For those who don’t know anything about incognito: The times when you need browsing the web without saving any history and information like login credentials, autofills etc you can use incognito mode in Google Chrome by clicking the wrench menu (present on the top right corner) and selecting ‘New Incognito Window’.
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Browsing internet in dark is bad for your eyes as it makes your eyes strain. Sometimes it causes eye fatigue, your eyes gets tired and could make it temporarily harder to focus etc. Now-a-days most internet browsing devices like laptops, smartphones and tablets provides you very easy shortcuts for dimming the screenlight. For example: Android’s screen light dimming feature is accessible from top notification bar, simply drag it and you can dim the screenlight.
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Earlier we discussed about removing category base slug and removing tag base slug from WordPress permalinks structure. Now this tutorial explains you doing same with custom taxonomies.
What is a taxonomy? A taxonomy is a way for grouping things together like in WordPress you can use a taxonomy for grouping articles from same topic together. Tags and categories are default WordPress taxonomies, there are also various plugins and hacks which enables you to register custom taxonomies as well.
By default taxonomies uses a base slug like a taxonomy with name ‘Topics’ would be looking something like this: http://yourdomain.com/topics/topic-name. Removing any taxonomy’s base slug means making it look something like this: http://yourdomain.com/topic-name.
WP No Taxonomy Base removes the base slug for both custom taxonomies and also the default WordPress like category. All you have to do is install and activate the plugin and you’re done.
In this tutorial we will show you how to quickly add a simple, good-looking and powerful AJAX chat room in your WordPress site. Earlier we posted a tutorial for WordPress site administrators, they can easily start chat rooms (with type & enter functionality) for registered their users to participate in by following URL of any particular chat room. Now this tutorial explains you how to create similar chat room but for unregistered WordPress users.
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