How to Install WordPress in Your Windows Computer using WAMP

May 15, 2013 by Leave a Comment

wamplocalIf you’re new or you want to develop themes and plugins for WordPress or just test your theme without going live, do you know that you can run WordPress in your Windows computer without having to connect to an online server?

What’s great about running WordPress in your computer is that every changes you make in the site won’t go live until you upload it to your server. So, you can do almost anything you like, break it, make it an even better site, or test plugins without your users having to deal with the outcome.

We will use WAMP to make WordPress fully functional offline. WAMP is an Apache Web Server, PHP, and MySQL bundled for Windows computers. Once installed, you can setup your own local server.

Read the rest of the tutorial here: http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-on-your-windows-computer-using-wamp/

 

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Practical Tips and Advice from WordPress Pros

May 13, 2013 by Leave a Comment

adviceWordPress can do a lot of things for you without having to write a bunch of codes. It is even more powerful if you take advantage of its API functionality.

If you are a developer, there are so many plugins available in WordPress, so it’s best if you do a quick search for a plugin first before you create one. Take advantage of what WordPress has to offer. Whether a hard-coder or you prefer ease and simplicity, there is always an available tool for you to use and take advantage of.

Follow the best practices when creating and code and make sure to write a secure code. Don’t forget to share your code so you can learn more about how to make it even better from the other pros or provide advice to those new in WordPress development.

These are just a few of the many tips and advice WordPress pros give to newbies and professionals alike. Read this blog to learn more about what you can do with your blog, developer or not.

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How to Contribute in WordPress

May 11, 2013 by Leave a Comment

contributewordpressWordPress is an open source blogging platform, you can get the code to modify it according to your own liking or contribute a few lines of code to make it even better. What is great about this CMS is that anyone can make a better WordPress by just contributing their skills.

There are many ways to get involved in contributing, you can help develop the code; design the ui of the next WordPress dashboard, create a mobile blogging platform, translate, become a support assistant in forums, create themes, create plugins, host an event, create a documentation, develop a wordPress community, and many others.

Read this blog on how you can contribute your part in WordPress.

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How to Properly Rename Categories in WordPress

May 9, 2013 by Leave a Comment

If you have a good structure in your blog, readers will find your content easily, therefore, they can return to your site with ease without having to get lost. WordPress even makes it easier through categorizing each content based on where you put it. So, if you have a lot of categories in your blog, you might be misinterpreting a category from a tag.

Also, you might be stuffing with a lot of keywords in your category which might affect your site in the future.

If you’re not certain if you are naming your categories right, this article will give you an in-depth explaanation about the do’s and don’ts of creating a category and how to make it more reader-friendly.

Full tutorial here: http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-properly-rename-categories-in-wordpress/

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How to Create an Embeddable Content Plugin for Your WordPress Blog

May 7, 2013 by Leave a Comment

WordPress is the most customizable CMS in the market today. You’ll have tens and thousands of plugins to try to your site and most of it are simplifies repetitive and tedious task. What is great about plugins, is that almost everyday, plugin developers come up with something unique. So if you have thought of something innovative for your site, chances are there is a plugin available for it.

Like in this blog, which shows you how to create an embeddable content plugin for your WordPress blog. There are various ways to share content, like Facebook shares, content curation, twitter, etc. But now you can embed your content to any site either as a way to advertise or just to promote a content.

Learn more about how it’s done in this guide:  http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/2012/11/15/embeddable-content-wordpress/

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How to Fix Internal Server Error in Your WordPress Blog

May 5, 2013 by Leave a Comment

error500HTTP 500 or Internal Server Error is one of the most common errors that blog users, especially beginners put in panic. If this happens to your site, don’t panic, relax, take a deep breath and I’m sure if you read this post, you’ll get your site running in no time.

But before we do that, let’s understand what is HTTP 500. HTTP 500 or Internal Server Error does not just happen to your site, but in the server you are at as well. It is one of the least helpful error because it won’t explain what brought you the error and what are its possible fix. There are severl possibilities that this happened to your site. These are:

PHP memory limit.
Corrupted .htaccess file
plugin error
when trying to access the administrator area

Here are some fixes you can do: http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-fix-the-internal-server-error-in-wordpress/

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How to Duplicate a WordPress Database Quickly

May 3, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Duplicating a WordPress database makes you WordPress blog more flexible. Either you duplicate because you need a backup or you want to set up a development site for your themes or features, duplicating makes it hassle free.

A common duplicating method is to export a copy then re-import it into a new database on the same server. This is probably the easiest way before but things have changed.

Now we have an even better way to duplicate our WordPress database as quickly as possible.

This tip is based on phpMyAdmin operations so if your host is using a different way to manage databases, this is not for you.

Read the rest of the post here: http://wpmu.org/copy-wordpress-database/

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How to Make a Command Line in Your WordPress Blog

May 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment

commandlineIf you are a WordPress pro use, chances are you can get away with almost anything. Even the administrator panel seems to sluggish for you. Wouldn’t it be great if you can create an entirely new approach to your WordPress dashboard? Why not use a command line in it? Impossible? Not.

To have a command line in your WordPress, all you need is a code editor, a method to compress folders to .zip extension, your WordPress site with the ability to upload and activate plugins in the back-end.

What is great about it is you don’t have to code the entire thing from scratch.

Read the rest of the tutorial here: http://wpmu.org/wordpress-command-line/

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How To Move from WordPress.com to WordPress.org

April 29, 2013 by Leave a Comment

wordpresscomtowordpressorgIf you’ve been using WordPress.com for a while now, chances are you get annoyed of the restrictions that a non-paid user encounters. If you want to earn money or just have a lot of customization options for your site, move your site to self-hosted WordPress or in WordPress.org. Customization comes with a price. So, if you want to benefit from a lot of theme options, and plugins to put into your site, pay for it.

So, you’ve decided to move to WordPress.org. While it may seem like a tedious task for the non-techie, the truth is, moving to a self-hosted site is as easy as pie. If you have chosen your host, met all the requirements here is the quick and easy method to move from WordPress.com to WordPress.org.

Read the rest of the instructions here: http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-properly-move-your-blog-from-wordpress-com-to-wordpress-org/

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How to Find Royalty Free Images for Your Blog Post

April 27, 2013 by Leave a Comment

A picture is worth a thousand words. A post without any image looks bland and uninteresting. That is why in every post we make, we make sure that we insert an image or two to make it look more interesting. And besides, images are just a search away right? If you’ve been searching in Google for images to put in your blog post, stop. You might be charged for copyright infringement for using an image without the owner’s consent.

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An alternative would be to make one of your own, pay for those images, or look at it in free image hosting sites.

Here are some sites where you can get royalty free images to put in your blog: http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-find-royalty-free-images-for-your-wordpress-blog-posts/

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