WordPress is an incredibly powerful publishing tool which is used by bloggers and webmaster world-wide. What makes it powerful is the ability to extend its functionality via plugins. If you are using WordPress as a CMS, then there is a high chance that you would want to add Categories and Tags to WordPress pages. You…
iPage has a great balance between price and performance. Their shared web hosting is quite good and competitive with other top hosting companies. With a starting plan of around $2/month and very few limits, it is best for newbies. This iPage hosting review will help you decide whether iPage hosting is best for you or…
One of the toughest parts of creating a new website is finding a good domain name which is also available. While I use these tips for choosing domain names, trying to find out available domain names for my desired keywords is challenging. Most registrars like Godaddy and Name.com will offer you suggestions if your chosen…
WordPress is one of the best possible tools at the disposal of bloggers today. However, there are some default settings which are still non-ideal and need to be fixed manually. Duplicate content is one of these. This is fairly important, because, in new blogs which primarily have only internal links, category and tag pages have…
You are new to the world of blogging and need to choose a host for your first blog. You hear that WordPress is the best blogging software around (which it really is), and are now looking for a host for your first blog. After doing some research, you see that most web hosting providers offer two…
A WordPress installation contains a lot of files and can clutter up your website’s root directory. This is especially painful if you are using shared hosting and you would like to keep the root directory of your primary domain clean. This guide shows you how to install WordPress in a separate directory instead of installing…
This is a simple guide for setting up a local apache web server on your Mac OSX machine. You can use this to develop and test your sites locally before uploading to your web host and also for learning web programming. Step 1: Create the Sites folder in your home directory Lion and later versions…
Many sites being developed in WordPress need to make multi-level menus also called nested menus. A key requirement in making this nested navigation menu is that the top level menu items should be non-clickable. Nested Menus can be build using the Menu Builder in WordPress. Navigate to the Menu Builder using : Appearance -> Menus…
Many WordPress users who are using a dedicated or VPS server or are setting up WordPress manually on your hosting provider in Linux or OSX get stuck with plugin installs. WordPress plugin and theme upgrades fail with the error “Unpacking the package… Could not create directory.”. This is mostly due to incorrect permissions and can…
I recently changed hosts and moved my blogs using the standard procedure to move WordPress across hosts. The text content displayed properly but the images were displaying as broken links even though the images were present on my server. This is how I fixed it after spending 30 minutes googling for the solution: Ensure that…
Placing Banner (AdSense) Ad Next to Site Title in WordPress Header A very common problem is adding an ad unit to your WordPress blog which displays in-line with your site title. Here is the simple way of doing it: Open WordPress Editor Open the header.php file In this file – look for the following code…
This post evaluates and lists the best Virtual Private Server hosting providers in the world today. There are a multitude of factors which make a VPS hosting provider qualify as best, average or worst. The factors we have used are: Quality of Server Hardware : This is a critical factor in getting the amount of computing and…
