Mar 18, 2009554

WordPress eStore Plugin – Complete Solution to Sell Digital Products from Your WordPress Blog Securely

Categories: Wordpress Plugin
WordPress eStore Plugin – Complete Solution to Sell Digital Products from Your WordPress Blog Securely
1. Do you sell, or want to sell, digital content from your WordPress site while maintaining the security of your digital assets? 2. Are you frustrated with the e-commerce WordPress plugins you've looked at? Do you want a plugin with reliable customer service (where your questions get answered and issues get addressed)? 3. Do you hate the thought of paying ongoing fees and commissions to sell via a third party web site? If you are still reading, then the WordPress eStore plugin may be just what you need! Plugin Summary In a Nutshell... this sleek WordPress shopping cart plugin allows you to sell any form of digital products and services from your wordpress blog securely with complete automation. What I mean by complete automation is that once you set it up the whole process (The buying and the delivering of the product without revealing the real URL of the product) works on its own. An overview of the WP eStore plugin operations can be found here. Yes, you can sell physical products with this plugin too as long as you don't need complex shipping options. Plugin Features Below are just some of the notable features of the WP eStore Plugin (you can find a full list of features ...
Mar 10, 200946

How to Add Widgets to WordPress Theme’s Footer

Categories: Wordpress
How to Add Widgets to WordPress Theme’s Footer
I wanted to use widgets in the footer of my WordPress theme but my wordpress theme didn't come with a footer-sidebar by default. I didn't really wanted to change the theme just because of that. So I hacked the wordpress theme to introduce footer-sidebars. If you are looking for a tutorial that explains how you can add sidebars/widgets to the footer of your WordPress theme then keep reading. There are really three main parts to introducing a footer-sidebar 1. Registering the Sidebars in the WordPress Theme 2. Inserting the Sidebars In the WordPress Theme 3. Putting some style into the sidebars 1. Register the Sidebars in the WordPress Theme Go to the WordPress theme editor and open the Theme Functions (functions.php) file. Now Search for the following line in your Theme Functions (functions.php) if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') ) Once you find the above line then take a look at the the next line which should look similar to one of the followings depending on how many sidebars you have: register_sidebar(array( or register_sidebars(2,array( Say for example you have one sidebar in your theme and you want to add three rows of sidebars in the footer area so you can put widgets then overwrite the code with the following: register_sidebars(4,array( The above will register 4 sidebars (one ...
Mar 2, 200916

Essential WordPress Security Tips – Is Your Blog Protected?

Categories: Blog Setup, Featured
Essential WordPress Security Tips – Is Your Blog Protected?
I have been revisiting the various security settings of my WordPress blog after the sudden database table corruption of this blog for unknown reason last week. In this post I have highlighted some of the security tips that can help protect your blog from possible outside attacks. Use Strong Passwords for all Entry Points I was surprised to find out how many of my friends use the WordPress admin password generated by WordPress during install time and thinks that their blog is protected from attacks as they are using a strong password! The WordPress admin password generated during install time is normally pretty strong (consists lowercase and uppercase letters with numbers and symbols) so there is nothing wrong with that. I was mainly shocked to find out that their ftp/cPanel password for that domain is not that strong. It gets even better... one of them were using his partners name as the password (Did I mention that his partner's name was mentioned on his blog's 'About' page?)! The ftp/cPanel password for your domain is equally important. If someone can access your cPanel then that person can delete your WordPress database from the cPanel->Databases->MySQL Databases. Anyway, the bottom line is to use ...
Feb 26, 20099

What Would You Do If Somehow You Lost all Your Blog’s Content?

Categories: Tech Tips
What Would You Do If Somehow You Lost all Your Blog’s Content?
I hope this doesn't happen to anyone else but this morning  my blog Tips and Tricks HQ somehow disappeared from the face of this earth! The day started as usual... I woke up in the morning went to my office and started checking my emails and found out that I received an email from SiteUptime (SiteUptime is a website monitoring service that checks your website at regular intervals and notifies you via email or SMS if it becomes unavailable) telling me that my site is down. So naturally I wanted to check if the site is up now. When I entered the site address in the address bar I got the following screen! [caption id="attachment_959" align="alignnone" width="444" caption="WordPress Blog Setup Screen"][/caption] You can probably imagine that at this point I was pretty scared! I always backup my database and WordPress files regularly so I wasn't completely in the water but what about all the articles that I have posted after the last backup? Not to mention the traffic that I am loosing now! Anyway, in my case the damage wasn't that severe. One of my WordPress database tables 'wp_options' was marked as crashed and I was getting the following error that I recovered from ...
Feb 22, 20095

How to Separate Pingbacks and Trackbacks from Comments

Categories: Wordpress
How to Separate Pingbacks and Trackbacks from Comments
According to Wikipedia "A trackback is one of three types of linkbacks, methods for Web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents. This enables authors to keep track of who is linking, and so referring, to their articles". Most bloggers don't show pingbacks and tracbacks on their blog but if you want to show them then I recommend separating pingbacks and trackbacks from the comments. The main reason I like to separate them is because comments are sometimes an ongoing conversation and trackbacks in the middle kinda breaks the flow of the conversation. Here is how you can separate the pingbacks and trackbacks from the comments. search for the following line in your comments.php template file <?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?> Put the following two lines just after the above line. <?php $comment_type = get_comment_type(); ?> <?php if($comment_type == 'comment') { ?> Now look for the end of the 'for' loop so you can close the if statement that you just introduced. To do that search for the following line endforeach; Just above that line insert the following code to end the if statement <?php } ?> This will filter out the trackbacks and only show comments in this section. If you don't want to ...
Feb 16, 2009650

WordPress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart Plugin

Categories: Featured, Wordpress Plugin
WordPress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart Plugin
The WordPress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart is a very easy to use plugin that allows you to sell products or services online in one click from your WordPress blog. Plugin Description WordPress Simple PayPal Shopping Cart lets you add an 'Add to Cart' button anywhere on your blog. This plugin also allows you to add the shopping cart anywhere in a post or page or sidebar easily. The shopping cart shows the user what they currently have in the cart and allows them to add or remove items. The payment is processed by PayPal. Screenshots Simple Product Display Product Display with Variation Control Shopping Cart Screenshot Below is a screenshot of how the shopping cart looks when customers add products to the cart. [caption id="attachment_1350" align="alignnone" width="403" caption="Sample Shopping Cart Screenshot"][/caption] Demo of the WordPress Paypal Shopping Cart Plugin I am using the WordPress eStore (plugin to sell digital products securely) which is the premium version of the WordPress PayPal Shopping Cart plugin. So I had to disable this simple shopping cart on this blog as it may conflict with the premium version but you can visit the WordPress eStore plugin page and play with the add to cart buttons to see how this plugin works (It will give you ...
Jan 24, 20095

How to Create and Display Favicon to Make Your Site Stand Out in The Pile of Bookmarks

Categories: Blog Setup
How to Create and Display Favicon to Make Your Site Stand Out in The Pile of Bookmarks
Favicons are a great way to make your site stand out from the crowd. It is also very easy to implement too. In this post I have explained how you can easily make a favicon and use it on your site. What is Favicon? Favicon is short for favorites icon. This is the icon that shows up on the left side of the browser's address bar. Favicon is also known as bookmark icon, website icon, url icon or shortcut icon. Size of a favicon is 16x16 pixels. How to Make a Favicon Easily in Photoshop In Photoshop open a new file (make sure the image size is 16 x 16 Pixels). Design your favicon. You can either start from scratch, use a picture, or a section of a picture. Note: The image size is rather small so I advise not to use a picture with a lot of graphic content. Save the favicon you created as 'favicon.ico' (you can save the image as .png or .jpg and then rename it to .ico) You can even use MS Paint to make favicons too... all you have to make sure is that the image size is 16x16 pixels and the filename is 'favicon.ico'. How to Use Favicon on Your Site? Adding a ...
Jan 19, 200943

Top 15 Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Techniques I Forget to do

Categories: Featured, SEO
Top 15 Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Techniques I Forget to do
Search Engine Optimization is a very hot topic in the World Wide Web. After all, everybody wants to rank higher and come up on the first page of Google search and get more traffic. I have identified and made a list of top 15 SEO practices that I tend to forget quite often. These simple SEO techniques if practiced properly can make a significant difference as to how my pages are ranked in the Search Engine Queries. Use rel="nofollow" tag on low value links to not pass the page rank juice. For example 'Read the rest of the entry', 'About', 'Contact' etc. Use proper anchor text for interlinks. Don’t use 'here' or 'there'. Optimize the images, always create alt tags and write description in the alt tag. Use search engine friendly permalinks. Make sure the URLs do not have '&', '?', '!' etc characters. Use hyphens (-) between words to improve readability. Do not use underscores (_), use hyphens (-) instead. Do not use session id in URLs. Use sticky posts. Use tag clouds. Have a category description paragraph. Let the visitors subscribe to category specific RSS feed. (Use category specific RSS plugin for WordPress) Use internal linking when possible and appropriate. Use sub-directories rather than sub-domains when possible. Sub-domains do not share ...
Jan 12, 200917

How to Clean/Remove Not Found Errors from Google web master tools generated from translated versions

Categories: Troubleshooting
How to Clean/Remove Not Found Errors from Google web master tools generated from translated versions
I installed a translator plugin on one of my WordPress blogs but the plugin wasn't working properly so I disabled it but two days later I found out that my Google web master tools account was reporting about 1100 'Not Found' errors under the 'Web crawl errors' section. All the errors were from translated versions of my blog. I used the 'robots.txt' file to fix this issue. If you don't know what a 'robots.txt' file is, then read the article titled how to control access of the web crawlers or web robots to your site. Basically, add rules to your 'robots.txt' file to Disallow any spider from indexing the translated version of the pages. My 'robots.txt' file looks like the following Depending on your situation you might need to block more languages. Just look in the Google webmaster tools and see which languages are causing the error then add them to the Disallow rule. [lang=css] User-Agent: * # Language pages Disallow: /ar/* Disallow: /bg/* Disallow: /zh-hant/* Disallow: /ca/* Disallow: /cs/* Disallow: /da/* Disallow: /de/* Disallow: /el/* Disallow: /es/* Disallow: /fi/* Disallow: /fr/* Disallow: /he/* Disallow: /hi/* Disallow: /hr/* Disallow: /id/* Disallow: /it/* Disallow: /iw/* Disallow: /ja/* Disallow: /ko/* Disallow: /lt/* Disallow: /lv/* Disallow: /mr/* Disallow: /nl/* Disallow: /no/* Disallow: /pl/* Disallow: /pt-br/* Disallow: /pt/* Disallow: /ro/* Disallow: /ru/* Disallow: /sk/* Disallow: /sl/* Disallow: /sr/* Disallow: /sv/* Disallow: /tl/* Disallow: /tr/* Disallow: /uk/* Disallow: /vi/* Disallow: /zh-CN/* Allow: / [/lang] As far as I know, Google penalizes ...
Jan 9, 20092

How Many Advertisements Should be Used per Page on a Website?

Categories: Blog Setup
How Many Advertisements Should be Used per Page on a Website?
Many webmasters can't resist the temptation of putting more ad units on the web page to multiply the revenue generated from advertisements. A recent survey conducted by BurstMedia where over 4,000 web users participated revealed that: Ad clutter is not tolerated by web site visitors – many web users abandon a site they believe to be cluttered. Ad clutter can negatively impact a consumers’ perception of an advertiser’s product or service. 
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