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7 latest plugins to secure your WordPress 3.2 site and above versions

September 7, 2011

It becomes very difficult sometimes when your WordPress based website becomes a repetitive target for hackers. Usually it happens when you do not implement a few nice security plugins which secure your self hosted WordPress website. To help getting these plugins and configuring them, I have listed them below. 1. Limit Login Attempts : This plugin helps blocking the [...]

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Wrapping text around images in WordPress

August 24, 2011

Current versions of WordPress now have image alignment built-in. WordPress adds CSS classes to align the image to the right, left, and center of a paragraph, so the text will wrap around the image. In order to take advantage of these new CSS classes for image alignment and the text wrapping around the image, the [...]

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Importing Content to WordPress

August 16, 2011

WordPress currently supports importing data in the form of posts (articles) and most of the details or features supported by the content publishing platform. Three major platform of publishing online are Blogger, Live Journal and MSN Live Space. Importing content form these places to WordPress is discussed in this tutorial.

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Posting to WordPress blog using email

August 13, 2011

WordPress can be configured to use e-mail to post to a blog. This functionality can be implemented in three steps which would be discussed as follows. Creating an email account is the first step. It’s better not to use public, free e-mail servers like Yahoo, Hotmail, etc., for this account. Instead, create a new e-mail account [...]

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WordPress Mobile Styling with CSS

August 2, 2011

WordPress pages can be styled for mobile or other handheld devices with a simple application of CSS. The main difference is that instead of using a media type of “print”, you’ll use a media type of “handheld”. User agents (web browsers) decide which CSS media type to use based on what they are doing. Much [...]

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Overcoming Comment Spamming on WordPress

July 27, 2011

The problem of spam comments can become a serious problem at times. WordPress blogs and websites can be customized to deny any access to comment spammers. This can be done through a simple process. When a comment is sent to your weblog, the IP address is included in the packet of information that travels with [...]

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Use of jQuery in customizing WordPress themes

July 25, 2011

JQuery can be downloaded and installed on your server directly but this simple method comes with a cost. As we know, several plugins use the JQuery library and they would need to load the library every time, regardless of its presence on the server. So, it’s better to use alternative and more efficient and customized [...]

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Pod casting through WordPress

July 20, 2011

Podcasting is supported in all versions of WordPress starting from WordPress 1.5. All you need to do is link to an audio file in one of your posts and WordPress will automatically add the necessary enclosure tag to their RSS2 feed to make it useable as a podcast. However, once again, it’s essential to use [...]

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Photoblogs and Galleries in WordPress

July 17, 2011

There are options to display images in several ways on WordPress. PhotoBlogs are different from normal blogs. Normal blogs put the emphasis on the words with only the occasional image featured. PhotoBlogs are all about the images and not the words. Although there are some good plugins available for this purpose which would be listed [...]

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WordPress Website in your own Language

July 10, 2011

Sometimes it is more beneficial and rewarding for a website owner to have a website in his or her own language. For example, if a person wants to attract the local people of his community, it might always be a good idea to create a website in that local language. WordPress provides the facility to [...]

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