Short of a config file or two, and a couple data folders, the WordPress database contains pretty much all of the settings and content for a WordPress web site. Everything from user data, categories, taxonomies, comments, settings, posts and more are stored in the database. It is being read from … [Read more...] about How to Take a DataBase Backup Using the All in One WP Security Plugin
How To Create an Attractive Subscribe & Follow Box For Your WordPress Blog
Your WordPress blog isn't the only place that you should be adding fresh content to. It's important these days to also add new content to social networks as well. Most of the time, webmasters create profiles and pages on social sites that are specific to just one web site (or niche that they are … [Read more...] about How To Create an Attractive Subscribe & Follow Box For Your WordPress Blog
All In One WP Security Plugin – Using the ‘Cookie Based Brute Force Login Attack’ Prevention Feature
The All In One WP Security & Firewall plugin by Tips and Tricks HQ is much more than just a protection tool for the all important htaccess and wp-config files. Among other things, there are also some basic, intermediate and advanced firewall protection strategies that can be applied to the … [Read more...] about All In One WP Security Plugin – Using the ‘Cookie Based Brute Force Login Attack’ Prevention Feature
WP Far Future Expiration Plugin – Easily Add Far Future Expiration to Your Static Files
This plugin will allow you to easily add a "far future expiration" date for various static file types on your WordPress powered site to improve page load time (site speed). Adding far future expiry header to your static resources (images, js, css) can improve the site speed. If you are using a … [Read more...] about WP Far Future Expiration Plugin – Easily Add Far Future Expiration to Your Static Files
How to Restore the htaccess File When Using the All in One WP Security Plugin
Just like WordPress is highly SEO friendly out of the box, it is also highly secure. And in the same way a little extra WordPress SEO'ing can go a long way, bumping up the security a bit for the web site is very beneficial. The All in One WP Security Plugin fills the WordPress security gap nicely. A … [Read more...] about How to Restore the htaccess File When Using the All in One WP Security Plugin
How to Completely Delete a WordPress Blog
When clients ask me how to delete their WordPress blog, after a couple minutes of conversation I learn that, in most cases, they just want to take it off the web temporarily. To do that is very simple. I'll explain how below but if you truly want to delete the blog and everything associated with it, … [Read more...] about How to Completely Delete a WordPress Blog
Adding an Author Image and Bio Box in WordPress, and Linking to a Google+ Profile
Attaching a bio box and an image to blog posts in WordPress can help readers identify, and perhaps gain a level of trust with the writer. The bio box can serve many other purposes as well. In standard article marketing and even guest blog posting, the author/bio box can help with SEO when links are … [Read more...] about Adding an Author Image and Bio Box in WordPress, and Linking to a Google+ Profile
Best WordPress Security Plugins
WordPress is open source software. Open source software has its advantages to be sure, but since it is "open," meaning that the code is available for all to see, those that study the code close enough can find holes. If a hole is found by one of the "good guys," then it can be filled, and providing … [Read more...] about Best WordPress Security Plugins
How to Install A WordPress Multi-Site Network [Video Tutorial]
Ever since version 3 of WordPress was launched, users had the ability to create a network of WP sites or blogs, allowing us to own a site similar to WordPress.com. Using what's called the 'multisite' feature we could have many sites running, only having just one installation of the software … [Read more...] about How to Install A WordPress Multi-Site Network [Video Tutorial]
WP Proper PHP Include Plugin
WordPress, by default, allows the use of HTML and JavaScript when adding/editing posts and pages in "Text" view. However, PHP execution is a different story. Sometimes you may want to execute some PHP code in your post or page and this plugin will allow you to do that. There are a few plugins … [Read more...] about WP Proper PHP Include Plugin