Articles tagged with: Wordpress


Feb 28, 201135

Free Premium Plugin and Theme Downloaders – Beware!

Categories: Blogging Tips, Featured, Shop Admin Tips
Free Premium Plugin and Theme Downloaders – Beware!
Reading this article may end up saving your site from getting hacked.This Tips and Tricks HQ blog gets so many queries on the term “Free eStore Download”, "Free WordPress eMember" and many similar terms from bloggers not wanting to pay for the WP eStore or the WP eMember plugin. I am pretty sure the same is true for most premium plugins and themes. I understand some of you not wanting to pay for a plugin or a theme but trying to get a free download (possibly from a warez or torrent or file sharing site) is not the solution.I always believed in the fact that there are no free lunches in this world. If you see someone giving someone else's premium plugin or theme for free you have to ask yourself the following question:“Why are they giving it away for free?”When people offer you something for free, like premium plugins or themes because they know thousands are looking for it, you need to think twice before downloading and USING it.Anyone can easily add code to the original plugin or theme and offer it to you for free. Now this premium plugin that you got for free can give them a ...
Dec 23, 201013

7 Steps to Profiting from Niche Affiliate Adsense Sites with WordPress

Categories: Make Money
7 Steps to Profiting from Niche Affiliate Adsense Sites with WordPress
I’ve turned into quite a fan of Google Adsense.Here is a way that anyone can make money online without having to sell anything.  And given that selling on the internet is one of the hardest skills to master, the Adsense program provides a way for newcomers to internet marketing to make their first bit of passive income without getting bogged down with the ins and outs of conversion and payment processing.Yet, at the same time, it can be a complete waste of time if people go about it the wrong way.  The most common mistake I see is poor ad placement and optimization, followed closely by keyword optimization for terms that don’t pay!Having made decent money from Google Adsense for over a year now, I wanted to create a quick 7 step plan that can be followed to generate an income online.  And here it is...Quick disclaimer: don’t expect instant gratification from this strategy – it can take anything from a few weeks to a month to start receiving traffic from the search engines and therefore make any money.  But, when you do, it’s very easy to scale everything up. Step 1 – Pick Your Niche and Keyword Group Yawn.  I know...the ...
Sep 14, 201018

Choosing Hosting for Multiple WordPress Sites

Categories: Web Hosting, Wordpress
Choosing Hosting for Multiple WordPress Sites
Creating a network of blogs or sites is one good strategy to earn dependable online income. However, managing multiple sites naturally demand far greater resources than when running just one site or blog. It’s also not as simple as launching several simple HTML info/hobby sites back then in the earlier days of the Internet.You’d also meet plenty of competition from established, well-funded blog networks (such as online spin-offs of print newspapers). As a matter of fact, you’ll be competing with all the millions of sites out there (a total of 234 million sites by December 2009 compared to 162 million sites in 2008, Pingdom reports).If you’re a website owner, or just planning to become one, you’d want to have the edge, or at the very least, ensure that your well-designed sites are running optimally (or running at all!).The good news is that there are plenty of easy-to-use sophisticated content management solutions (CMS) that will allow you to create and manage a lot of sites from one powerful administrator dashboard. Use WordPress Worth trying if you haven’t yet is WordPress 3.0 (multisite), which absorbed the abilities of the old WordPress MU (multiuser). It lets you install and manage many sites once from one ...
Sep 4, 201015

10 Plugins to Improve the Usability of WordPress Blogs

Categories: Blog Setup, Wordpress Plugin
10 Plugins to Improve the Usability of WordPress Blogs
WordPress is a quality platform that many of us use. It is very popular and has much to offer. In fact, there are almost too many options in terms of plugins and widgets to add to our blogs. These may make our sites look great and add value to what we are offering, but they can bloat the blogs making them slow to load and at times producing a cluttered look and other problems.The good news is that there are plugins that address this problem and improve the performance and user friendliness of our blogs. Since usability is an essential for maximum profitability these are well worth considering. Here are 10 plugins that will surely improve the usability of your WordPress blog.1. Lightbox 2: Images can make or break a blog as you well know from your experience with your own blog and from your perusal of other blogosphere stops. This nifty plugin uses Colorbox to overlay images in a lightbox. One advantage is that your users can view larger images without being taken to another page, streamlining their experience which they will most definitely appreciate. With this plugin you also have the option of auto-lightboxing all the images.2. WP-Print: ...
Aug 20, 201080

WordPress Video Lightbox Plugin – Display Videos and Images in a Fancy Lightbox Overlay

Categories: Wordpress Plugin
WordPress Video Lightbox Plugin – Display Videos and Images in a Fancy Lightbox Overlay
The WordPress Video Lightbox plugin allows you to embed videos on a page using lightbox overlay display similar to the one shown below. This plugin can be used to display images, flash, YouTube, Vimeo, iFrame etc in a lightbox overlay. The embedded videos can be viewed on iPhone and iPad too. The plugin uses the PrettyPhoto JQuery Library.Click on the image to see how the video pops over in a lightbox overlay.[video_lightbox_youtube video_id=G7z74BvLWUg width=640 height=480 anchor=http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/wp-video-lightbox-demo.png]Little Background Previously I was using another plugin to display my Vimeo videos in a lightbox overlay but recently Vimeo changed their video embed code to use HTML5 in an effort to make the videos playable in iPhone and iPad. Unfortunately, the other plugin wasn't working with this change and I was getting the following error on all my embedded Vimeo videos:Sorry, this video does not existTo get around the problem I created this plugin and tweaked the prettyPhoto JQuery library so it works with the new Vimeo video embed code. When you use this plugin to embed video it will play your YouTube or Vimeo videos in iPhone and iPad! InstallationUnzip and Upload the folder 'wp-video-lightbox' to the '/wp-content/plugins/' directory. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu ...
Jul 17, 201058

Affiliate Link Manager/Cloaker Plugin – Revolutionize Your Affiliate Marketing

Categories: Wordpress Plugin
Affiliate Link Manager/Cloaker 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.This affiliate link cloaker plugin can also convert keywords from your sidebar widget text and comments into your affiliate links.The affiliate link cloaker 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/Cloaker FeaturesSome key features of the WordPress Affiliate Link Manager/Cloaker 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 ...
Jun 12, 201095

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 will be the perfect solution for your site.Plugin SummaryThe 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. The stamper then sends the stamped copy of the PDF file to the customer via email. 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.Additionally, you can password protect the stamped PDF files with the customer's email address and encrypt the PDF files to prevent users from being able to copy, modify or print the content of the file.Plugin FeaturesBelow are just some of the notable features of the WP PDF Stamper Plugin: Easy Installation Easy installation like any of our other ...
Apr 6, 20109

Web Analytics 101 – Learn Which Analytics Data You Should be Using

Categories: Site Optimization Tips, Web development
Web Analytics 101 – Learn Which Analytics Data You Should be Using
If you are running a small website, chances are you've already heard of Web Analytics. If you haven't, it is a tool for measuring traffic of your website. It provides data on the number of visitors, page views etc to gauge the popularity of the site. For many people, using analytics is limited to watching how many more visitors have come to the site, and repeating the figures to potential advertisers. If used smartly, analytics is also a marketing tool, an e-commerce tracker, an ad tool, and the list goes on. In this article, we'll have a look at basic ways to use the analytics.Choosing an Analytics Software First of all, you need to have an analytics software set up for your website, which mostly means signing up for an account of an analytics provider, and adding a few lines of javascript code to your pages. Google Analytics is the most widely used analytics tool. It's also free and integrating it in a WordPress site is just a matter of adding a plugin to your site! If you like to have choices, you can search the Internet looking for some other alternative solutions. This article lists a number of analytics software ...
Mar 6, 201026

Basic Guide to CSS

Categories: CSS
Basic Guide to CSS
Many people want to make simple CSS changes but do not know where to start or are afraid that they will change the wrong thing. As a result of this I get asked a lot of CSS related questions from new WordPress users. The fact is that learning CSS is not really that hard. Once you get a hang of the basics, you can quickly become an advanced CSS user if you keep playing around with it. In this article I have explained how to do simple CSS modifications, hopefully it will be of some help to some of you. Let's get started. First, you should make a back up copy of CSS files you are going to modify. You should do this with any file you plan on modifying incase something goes wrong, you can always revert back to the version you know works properly.What is CSS "Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics (that is, the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. It's most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can be applied to any kind of XML document, ...
Nov 19, 200979

WordPress Plugin – Change WP eMail From Details

Categories: Wordpress Plugin
WordPress Plugin – Change WP eMail From Details
This WordPress plugin lets you customize the email details that appear on emails sent from WordPress. By default the "From Name" on emails sent from wordpress has a name "WordPress" and the "From Address" on emails has "wordpress@your-domian.com" which is not very meaningful. You can customize both these fields with this plugin so your customers are not confused.Plugin InstallationUnzip and Upload the folder "change-wp-mail-from-details" to the "/wp-content/plugins/" directory. Activate the plugin through the "Plugins" menu in WordPress.Plugin UsageCheck the appropriate checkbox for the options that you want to customize. Enter the customized text in the appropriate field.[caption id="attachment_1884" align="alignnone" width="443" caption="Settings Screen of the Change "Email From Details" Plugin"][/caption] Special Note If you are trying to customize the "From Name" and "From Email Address" for any of the following plugins then there is an even simpler solution:Wordpress Shopping Cart (WP eStore) WordPress Membership Plugin (WP eMember) WordPress Affiliate Plugin (WP Affiliate Platform)You can use the following format in the "From Email Address" field in the settings menu of these plugins:Your Name <youremail@gmail.com>So for the above example "Your Name" will be displayed as the name and "youremail@gmail.com" will be used in the email address field. Support/Donation Option Donation option can be found on my projects page. Download Latest Version (v1.0) Download ...
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