WordPress provides you security updates but still it is very important to follow additional security steps because it also matters what kind and number of WP themes and plugins you use. You should check your website on regular basis for malicious code, content, links, script etc to avoid getting your site compromised and hacked. This tutorial explains you how you can check your site files and database for malicious content.
Google announced on its official Google Reader Blog that the company is planning to kill Google Reader App on July 1st, 2013. They had given two reasons for shutting down Google Reader, the reason is that the usage of Google Reader has declined and as a company they’re pouring all of their energy into fewer products to maintain a better user experience.
It is easy to hide title in some WordPress widgets simply by emptying their title field but some widgets doesn’t allows you to do so, this is because a default title is set in their code which automatically comes visible when you empty their title field. Now this tutorial explains how you can hide widget title in selective WordPress widgets easily.
Cloudinary.Com has launched a free WordPress plugin that lets you host your WordPress images on cloud using a fast CDN all free of cost. The service automatically uploads, normalize, optimize and back up all your WordPress site images to its cloud and makes you free from messing around with image editors; Cloudinary can manipulate and transform your images online on-the-fly and you can manage everything directly from your WordPress admin area dashboard; resulting images are cached, optimized and delivered using a fast content delivery network (CDN).
By default WordPress allows your blog post authors to delete their post by clicking the delete button from publish metabox or from all post list. If you don’t want to allow this post delete option in your WordPress site then you can easily disable it by using a simple WordPress plugin called Disable Delete Post or Page.
There are many different plugins in WordPress Plugin Repository that allows you to limit your website access in different ways. Now this tutorial explains you limiting your WordPress site access for logged in or allowed by IP addresses.
oEmbed is a powerful WordPress feature that allows you to embed other website’s content simply by pasting its URL. WordPress allows you to oEmbed videos inside your blog posts without using any additional plugin, you can extent oEmbed functionality to Twitter Tweets by using oEmbed Tweets plugin.
WordPress allows you to publish password protected posts. You can add password protection in your blog post by using visibilityoption present in the Publish meta box on post’s add new/edit page; using this feature you can set a separate password on your post and share it with selected users. Now this tutorial explains you how you can set a global password which is applicable with all your password protected posts and pages.
Here is an easy way of monitoring your WordPress site against hacking attacks. Every minute hacking bots attempts logging-in to your WordPress site and when they get successful in doing so, they edit your WordPress files (generally WordPress theme files) then add their Affiliate links and sometimes illegal and harmful programs.
If you have accidently lost your website’s content and you don’t have any backup of your blog posts, pages and other content types then in that case you can get most of your website content back by downloading it from Google Cache.
WordPress.Com’s Hot Topics Page displays a full page cloud of popular tags. Now you can display same kind of Tag and Post Archive Cloud in your self-hosted WordPress blog pages or posts by using new WordPress plugin called Post Tags and Archives.
Ads in bottom right is the new WordPress plugin that adds a magnetizable rectangle block for showing ads in the bottom right corner of your WordPress site.
Clean Retina is the brand new Responsive Retina Ready WordPress Theme with a clean and simple layout that adapts automatically to your tablets and mobile devices.
Here is a list of some popular blog marketing websites that allows you to make money by writing product reviews online on your blog. These websites connects blogger with advertisers who wants to get their product reviewed on successful and high traffic domains.
PostRunner.com is an easy way to find Guest Posts for your website. WordPress site owners may download Postrnner Plugin from WordPress Plugin Repository, then create their account in PostRunner and start receiving free guest posts for their weblogs.
By default WordPress doesn’t provides you any options for changing default font size of HTML text editor. Sometimes it becomes very hard to read and edit content from HTML text editor as there is no options to change normal text font size there. This tutorial explains you an easiest way of changing font size of your WordPress HTML editor.
WordPress admin area’s All Posts list displays Title, Author, Categories, Tags, Number of Comments and Date columns by default. But now you can add one more column showing Featured Images by using Featured Image Column plugin.
Suicide is a free WordPress plugin you can use for cleaning all content from your WordPress site’s database (by table). The plugin works both in Single as well as WordPress Multisite installations.
Genericons are the vector icons embedded in a webfont designed to be clean, simple, keeping a generic aesthetic. Now by using brand new WordPress plugin called Genericon’d you can enable easy use of Genericons icon font set in your WordPress site. You can insert these icons either by HTML or by using shortcode inside your blog posts and pages.
You can easily hide posts older than a given time relative to present by using Hide Old Posts plugin. The plugin is not yet updated to WordPress 3.5.1 but due to its simple code it works with most recent version of WordPress 3.5. Install and activate it, after activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Settings -> Hide Old Posts page and set the following options. Continue reading How To Hide Posts Older Than Given Time In Your WordPress Site ?→
