Jul 28, 20103

Database Recovery Techniques

Categories: Computer Science, Tech Tips
Database Recovery Techniques
Preventing data loss is one of the most critical issues involved in managing database systems. Data can be lost as a result of many different problems: Hardware failures Viruses Incorrect use of UPDATE and DELETE statements Software bugs Disasters, such as fire or flood To prevent data loss, you can implement a recovery strategy for your databases. This article explains the traditional database recovery techniques that are out there. If you are only concerned about backing up your WordPress blog then simply use a database backup plugin explained in the Must Use Plugins List article. Full Database Backups A very common backup strategy is to back up the whole database in a predefined time series (once each night, for instance). With such a backup strategy, it is possible to recover a database to the state it had when the last backup occurred. This strategy is implemented by using full database backups. A full database backup contains all data and database Meta information needed to restore the whole database, including full-text catalogs. When you restore a full database backup, it restores all database files yielding data in a consistent state from the time the backup completed. Using Differential Backups The main advantage of a full database backup ...
Jul 17, 201012

Affiliate Link Manager Plugin – Revolutionize Your Affiliate Marketing

Categories: Wordpress Plugin
Affiliate Link Manager Plugin – Revolutionize Your Affiliate Marketing
The Affiliate Link Manager plugin allows you to automatically convert specific keywords from your blog posts and pages into your affiliate links. It also cloaks the affiliate link and gives it a prettier and shorter alias. The affiliate link manager plugin will revolutionize how you approach your affiliate marketing business by allowing you to automate the repetitive tasks (learn more on why use a link manager). Affiliate Link Manager Features Some key features of the WordPress Affiliate Link Manager Plugin include: Automatically Convert Keywords into Affiliate Links Assign one or more keywords to a an affiliate link, and the plugin will automatically scan your blog post and pages for those keywords and convert them into your affiliate links. You can easily reverse the operation with one click (very useful when you stop being an affiliate). Cloak Your Affiliate Links It will make your external and affiliate links appear to be on your site. The links will look short and pretty too. Set Keyword Conversion Limit You can set the maximum number of automatically inserted links per post or page so the blog posts do not look spammy. Apply Common Customizations Customize the font color, size, style of all the anchor texts of the cloaked links. You can also ...
Jul 16, 20103

bbCaptcha – A Working reCAPTCHA plugin for bbPress Forum

Categories: bbPress
bbCaptcha – A Working reCAPTCHA plugin for bbPress Forum
Recently I started to get a lot of spam bot signup on my Tips and Tricks HQ forum. This forum is powered by bbPress so I started to look for a bbPress plugin that would enable reCAPTCHA on the forum registration page to stop these bot signups. Sadly the one plugin that I did find wouldn't work on my site. So I wrote my own bbPress reCaptcha plugin. Plugin Description The bbCaptcha plugin adds reCAPTCHA to the registration page of your bbPress forum. [caption id="attachment_2536" align="alignnone" width="442" caption="reCAPTCHA to bbPress registration"][/caption] Installation & Usage Unzip and Upload the folder ‘bb-captcha’ to the ‘my-plugins’ directory. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in bbPress. Go to Settings menu of bbCaptcha plugin and add the reCAPTCHA keys. You can get reCAPTCHA keys here if you don't have it already for your site. [caption id="attachment_2537" align="alignnone" width="442" caption="Activating bbCaptcha Plugin"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_2538" align="alignnone" width="148" caption="bbCaptcha Settings"][/caption] This Plugin in Action You can see this plugin in action on the registration page of the Tips and Tricks HQ Forum. Download Latest Version Download the Plugin. All the plugins developed by Tips and Tricks HQ are listed on the projects page. If you need help just leave a comment below.
Jul 14, 20108

10 Tips for Self Employed People to Stay Organized & Productive

Categories: Good Living
10 Tips for Self Employed People to Stay Organized & Productive
If you are self-employed and regularly work from home, then you might sometimes find it difficult to stay organized and productive. When you work for a traditional employer, it's a simple matter to settle into "work mode" and to get your tasks done every day, but working from home requires quite a bit of discipline. Here are 10 tips to help you stay organized and productive. 1. Keep a Tidy Workspace If you have a messy workspace, then you can feel less motivated and more stressful. It's important to have an area dedicated solely to work and to keep that area free from clutter. 2. Set Goals If you know what you need to do every day, then you are much more likely to accomplish it. To-do lists are a must for the self-employed person. You might want a daily do-do list as well as a weekly to-do list. 3. Exercise It's tough to stay productive if you are always feeling tense and stressed. Exercise not only helps you get your mind off your work for a time, but it also keeps your brain in top shape to help you solve the important problems that come up in your work. By the time you get back ...
Jul 8, 20108

Can You Make Money from Affiliate Marketing? If so How?

Categories: Make Money, Online Marketing
Can You Make Money from Affiliate Marketing? If so How?
This is a follow up article for the “How do I Start a Blog and Make Money Online” series that we have been publishing on this blog to help the newbie’s get started with a blog. Before I start, I would like to make one thing clear: I do not believe in easy money and there is no magical tips in this article that will help you get rich overnight. So if you are after easy money then this article is not for you. This article mainly covers the following topics: What affiliate marketing is and the different types of affiliate marketing The advantages of being an affiliate marketer Some tips and good practices to become a successful affiliate marketer So, can you really make money from affiliate programs? Well yes and no; there is money in affiliate marketing but if YOU can make money from it or not depends on a lot of other factors such as your commitment, experience, site traffic etc. What is Affiliate Marketing? According to Wikipedia "Affiliate marketing is a marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate's marketing efforts" Basically, you as a publisher will be rewarded when you ...
Jul 1, 20107

10 Tips for Writing an Autoresponse Email

Categories: Online Marketing, Shop Admin Tips
10 Tips for Writing an Autoresponse Email
If you are using an Autoresponder service (eg. AWeber, GetResponse, MailChimp etc) then chances are that you will be writing auto-response emails that will get sent out to your subscribers once they subscribe. Every piece of communication that you send adds to the overall impression that a customer has of your product or service. Autoresponders can be used for simple acknowledgments, newsletters, or even series of newsletters. Here are ten tips about autoresponder use. 1. Acknowledge your customers Send an email to thank your new users for signing up to read your newsletter. This reminds those users that you have received their opt-in request. It should also give your customers an idea of what they should expect in your writing as well as how frequently they should expect to receive it. 2. Make privacy policies crystal clear Your readers want to know that their information is not going to be sold or given away to other users or companies. Place a link to your privacy policy within your newsletters. 3. Unsubscribing should be as easy as subscribing People unsubscribe for a variety of reasons. Don't feel offended or take it personally when someone doesn't want to be subscribed to your newsletter. Immediately remove the subscriber when ...
Jun 26, 20105

Tools for the Modern PHP Developer

Categories: Web development
Tools for the Modern PHP Developer
If you have been working in PHP for a while, may be it's time to go pro. This article lists a number of tools and software that will improve your development practice and boost productivity. They are absolutely free and open-source! There are alternatives for most of them, so you can feel free to do your own research to adopt a tool. Unit Testing - PHPUnit Unit testing is an effective practice for developing software, where you can test your functional units of your code, catch the bugs and fix them early in the project. PHPUnit is a member of the xUnit family of testing frameworks, the same family where the popular JUnit framework for Java belongs to . It enables to you write tests on pieces of your code, run them automatically and analyze their results. » Read the PHPUnit documentation Debugging - Xdebug Debugging is an important part of development process. The more efficient your debugging process is, the faster you build something. Instead of relying on echo(), print_r() or var_dump() functions, you should try using XDebug. Xdebug is a multi-purpose tool, providing remote debugging, stack traces, function traces, profiling and code coverage analysis. » Read the documentation Documentation - PHPDocumentor A good documentation is ...
Jun 12, 201030

WP PDF Stamper Plugin – Stamp Your eBooks with Customer Details to Discourage File Sharing

Categories: Wordpress Plugin
WP PDF Stamper Plugin – Stamp Your eBooks with Customer Details to Discourage File Sharing
1. Are you selling eBook(s) from your WordPress site? 2. Are you concerned that one of your customers might upload your eBook on a file sharing site and you will lose sales? 3. Would you like to automatically stamp the footer of your PDF eBooks with the customer's personal details (e.g. name, email, address) upon purchase to discourage sharing? If you have answered "yes" to all of the above then the WP PDF Stamper plugin might be a good solution for you. Plugin Summary The WP PDF Stamper plugin allows you to dynamically stamp a PDF file with the customer’s details (e.g. name, email, address etc.) upon purchase. If you are wondering why it is important to stamp the PDF eBook before giving it to your customer then this page is for you. Plugin Features Below are just some of the notable features of the WP PDF Stamper Plugin: Easy Installation Easy installation like any of our other WordPress plugin. eBook Protection Protect your eBook(s) from being shared on the file sharing sites. Easy PayPal Integration Can be easily integrated with a plain PayPal "Buy" button. Read more here. Can be Integrated with WP eStore Pre-integrated with the WP eStore (WordPress Shopping Cart) plugin so your PDF eBook will be automatically ...
Jun 10, 20106

10 Fundamental Ways of Building Customer Trust

Categories: Online Marketing, Shop Admin Tips
10 Fundamental Ways of Building Customer Trust
When your business is online only, the first (and sometimes only) contact that clients have with you is through your website. Creating trust is absolutely essential, since trust generates repeat business. Here are ten ideas to gain that valuable online trust. Visual Distinction: Customers associate with the branding that you offer yourself. Present a professional image by placing your logo on every page and keeping the same format on all of the pages within your site. When customers see that particular format, you want them to recognize it as yours. Recognition: Let clients know about the recognition that your company has received. A real referral and award is some of the best public relations that you can ask for. Don't forget that the awards that you receive can be verified by your customers. Secured Transactions: If you show your clients that you want to protect their data by using secured communication, you are taking a great step to gaining their trust. You are showing them that they can trust you with their valuable information and trust the products that you are selling. Respond Personally to Correspondence: When you offer a suggestion, you want to know that someone has looked at it and evaluated it. ...
May 19, 201022

Plugins to Speed Up Your WordPress Site

Categories: Site Optimization Tips, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugin
Plugins to Speed Up Your WordPress Site
Speeding up your WordPress blog goes a long way to improve its popularity. As the website loads faster, your visitor enjoys browsing, driving high traffic and generating revenue. While there are many proven ways to boost a site's performance (a lot of these are explained in the WordPress Optimization Tips and Tricks post), in this article we will take a look at some WordPress plugins that allows you to perform critical front-end and back-end optimizations, within the comfort of your WordPress dashboard. In the first section of this article I have listed the well known WordPress caching plugins and my recommendation. The next section has a list of few nice utility type plugins which you might find useful (depending on your situation). Please note that you don't need to install all of the plugins listed here on your site (Just pick whatever fits your needs). Top WordPress Caching Plugins W3 Total Cache A lot of people still use the WP Super Cache plugin. WP Super Cache is a nice plugin but have you tried the W3 Total Cache plugin yet? If you are using a WordPress caching plugin and you have never tried the W3 Total Cache then you seriously need to give this ...
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