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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 iPad too. Click on the … [Read more...] about WordPress Video Lightbox Plugin – Display Videos and Images in a Fancy Lightbox Overlay

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 … [Read more...] about bbCaptcha – A Working reCAPTCHA plugin for bbPress Forum

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

1. Are you selling eBooks or PDF files 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 header or footer of your PDF files with the customer's personal … [Read more...] about WP PDF Stamper Plugin – Stamp Your eBooks with Customer Details to Discourage File Sharing

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WordPress 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 … [Read more...] about WordPress Plugins to Speed Up Your WordPress Site

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When Themes Go Wild – Importance of Using a Properly Coded WordPress Theme

It is surprising to see how many of my customers/users do not use a properly coded WordPress theme. Using a properly coded theme on a WordPress powered site is very important without any doubt. So I wanted to quickly make a blog post to highlight a few points to make sure you don’t go down the … [Read more...] about When Themes Go Wild – Importance of Using a Properly Coded WordPress Theme

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Site Speed is Now a Search Ranking Factor for Google Search

Google has officially made site speed one of the factors for search rank (there are over 200 ranking factors). So now is a good time to read the WordPress site optimization tips post and put some plan of action in place. Now, you have no reason to go into a panic mode just yet. Optimizing your … [Read more...] about Site Speed is Now a Search Ranking Factor for Google Search

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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 … [Read more...] about Web Analytics 101 – Learn Which Analytics Data You Should be Using

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WP CSV to Database Plugin – Import Excel File Content into WordPress database (MySQL)

WP CSV to Database plugin allows you to insert CSV file content into WordPress database. Useful when you want to bulk upload data from your CSV file (e.g. product details) to the WordPress database (MySQL) in one go. If you didn't know what a  CSV file is then you can learn more from … [Read more...] about WP CSV to Database Plugin – Import Excel File Content into WordPress database (MySQL)