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Before we discuss the WordPress Security Plugins, it is essential to understand why users need to install the Plugins. We all know that when a user creates the website, they also have to protect the website from malicious phishers and store the customers’ private data. Each website needs security from spammers, hackers. And malware attacks…
If you have lost your WordPress password, this article teaches you how to reset your WordPress password from the Control Panel using the database. Steps to Reset WordPress Password from the Database Log into cPanel. Under Databases, click phpMyAdmin. Click on the WordPress database from the left panel list. You may need a trial and error…
So you want to set your own website, and have registered your domain name and are all ready to create your own website. The first question you will be asked is ‘where do you want to host your website?’. For most newcomers, web hosting is a new term and most articles will complicate things by…
This quick tip shows how to insert a back button in HTML and WordPress which allows your user to navigate to the previous page. This is especially useful if you are developing a tool or a page which contains some user-generated information and you want to go back to the page with the user-generated information…
The significance of an SEO plugin for an e-commerce website can hardly be doubted. In today’s internet-driven world, search engines play an instrumental role in boosting online traffic, which is the leading determiner of where your business stands. What’s better, SEO for any business website is much easier than you think: thanks to a number…
This page lists the best WordPress Plugins for bloggers. This list of top WordPress plugins is routinely updated and will increase your success and efficiency as a blogger. Plugins to Prevent Comment Spam Akismet – This plugin is currently and unanimously the best comment spam prevention tool for WordPress blogs. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Plugins…
Are some of the links on your WordPress site showing up with strikethrough text link in the image below? The reason for this is a WordPress plugin called ‘Broken Link Checker’. Whenever this plugin classifies a link as broken, it displays the link as a strikethrough to warn users about not clicking on this link….
Social Sharing is the most important way of getting your blog popular. Hence it gets important to have the correct social sharing buttons in place at the optimal locations on your blog. There are a lot of such social sharing plugins out there. This post lists the top 5 plugins for WordPress which can be…
If you have a WordPress and are using the AMP plugin, the latest update (5-Aug) seems to have broken some code resulting in the entire website going down. Your users will see the following error: Fatal error: Cannot make static method AMP_Customizer_Design_Settings::register_customizer_ui() non static in class AMPFORWP_Customizer_Design_Contols in /home/techzog/public_html/wp-content/plugins/accelerated-mobile-pages/templates/customizer/customizer.php on line 217 This can be…
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…
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…
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…
There may be times when visitors come to your site and land on 404 pages which mean nothing to them and the visitor simply bounces away. This is a wasted visit for you as well as a poor experience for the visitor. One way to avoid this is creating custom 404 pages for your site. However,…
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…