Category Archives: WordPress

How To Display Related Posts Using Carousel Slider In WordPress?

Ever thought of displaying related posts inside a beautiful and responsive carousel slider? Modern Related Posts is the new WordPress plugin which enables you to display related posts using a responsive carousel.

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Top 5 Local Servers To Setup WordPress Locally On Your Machine

Local severs are good for building a testing environment on your local computing devices like laptops, desktop computers etc. Earlier we have posted some tutorials on installing LAMP server. Now in this tutorial we are listing some of the best local server applications that comes packed with Apache, MySQL, PHP and a few with even WordPress installed in them.

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How To Create Sandbox (Testing Environ) Of Any WordPress Site?

In this tutorial we will be showing you how to easily start a WordPress sandbox of your existing website. In web development, a sandbox stands for a testing environment that isolates untested code changes and outright experimentation from the production environment. It also protects “live” servers and their data from changes.

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How To Turn Your Laptop Into A WordPress Development Server?

Instant WordPress is the fastest way of installing and running WordPress on your local machine. It is a complete standalone, portable WordPress development environment which automatically turns your computer into a WordPress development server. Even you can carry around all your WordPress testing and development work in a USB key.

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How To Toggle (Show/Hide) Comments In WordPress?

Comment toggle option not only improves your page loading time but Haris Tonjoo, a WordPress plugin developer says that this way you can keep your readers more focused on your post content.

There are many website owners who have noticed an increase in their Adsense income after hiding comments with a toggle button. It means that it also increases the focus on your after content advertisements.

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How To Add A ‘Listen’ Button In WordPress Posts?

Earlier we have discussed about enabling GSpeech feature in WordPress, it works but the problem is that it only allows you to listen selected text. Its ‘Listen’ button appears only when some text is selected. In this tutorial we will show you how to add a ‘Listen’ button globally (before or after your posts like sharing buttons) so that your users can easily notice and use the post listening feature in your website.

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How To Remove Unwanted Activity Streams In BuddyPress?

Today, a SANGKRIT.net hosting owner requested us to help him out in filtering unwanted activity stream stuff in BuddyPress.  He is running a BuddyPress based video sharing and networking website and what he was noticing is his activity steam populated with tons of updates on people joining groups, changing profile photos, posting on forums etc etc (just like old days Facebook).

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How To Find Your WordPress Hostname & Server IP Address?

Not generally but many a times website owners require knowing their hostname and server IP address, it is only useful in certain situations like many security plugins and SSL certificate extensions asks you for your IP and host information to set up configuration settings and there are many more reasons.

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Secure WordPress Login & Admin Pages With SSL (HTTPS)

Now you know how to install SSL on a domain and how to implement it on your WordPress installation. A few days back a WordPress user emailed us saying that the majority of his website is not sensitive and also he has a resource limit so he only wants to enable SSL on his website login page and not on the rest of his website.

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How To Extend & Customize WordPress Menus?

You can easily extend default WordPress menus registered on your theme’s menu location to make them highly customizable. You can change their appearance, create new menu themes, add widget in them, HTML, enable menu custom icons and use them in your existing website menu locations.

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