Launching Popular Authors WordPress plugin
I’m happy to announce the launch of a new WordPress plugin. Popular Authors is an add-on for Top 10 and […]
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Security and Backup Essentials for WordPress
WordPress is a cultural phenomenon when it comes to publishing online. What started as a simple blogging tool in 2003
This is how you stop Trackback and Pingback spam in WordPress
When blogging started to gather steam a decade ago, you had (and still have) three ways of receiving comments. The
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5 Free WordPress plugins for handling Thumbnails
WordPress v2.9 introduced Post Thumbnails (now called Featured Images). Since then the WordPress plugin repository has seen a host of
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Google Publisher Plugin released: Supports Adsense and Webmaster Tools
WordPress powers 20% of the web. Which probably explains why Google has also jumped onto the WordPress plugin bandwagon. The Google team announced the beta version of Google Publisher WordPress plugin.
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Best way to lazy load images on your WordPress blog
At Techtites, over the past several months, I’ve been trying to optimise the site to get the best load times. This is why you’d have seen several new themes being experimented upon. I also use Cloudflare to improve performance.
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How to Add Text before Post Content in WordPress
The benefit of using WordPress to power your blog is that you don’t need to edit any PHP files and use thousands of ready themes available for free. If you’re like me, you’d prefer to keep away from major editing of the theme files and prefer to use the right assortment of plugins to get the job done. If you’re looking to add text before post content in WordPress, you can either edit your theme files or check out Add to All, a plugin I released a while back.
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How to prevent CSRF vulnerability in WordPress plugins and themes
Recently the folks at Secunia contacted me regarding a vulnerability in my plugin Contextual Related Posts. Contextual Related Posts is a powerful plugin for WordPress that allows you to display a list of related posts on your website and in your feed. The plugin comes with a tonne of options and inbuilt caching that can possibly increase user retention.
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5 lesser known Contact Form plugins for WordPress
Everybody has heard of Contact Form 7 (we use it here on Techtites) as well as many of you might have got your hands on Gravity Forms. Besides these, there are several other lesser known contact form plugins that make it easy to collect information from your visitors. I’ve highlighted five of these below.
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How to create CSS3 animated buttons in WordPress
I remember when I first started working with websites more than a decade ago, if you wanted a cool looking button in your form, you had to use images. Images still remain an option but with CSS this has is being gradually phased out. CSS3 completely eliminates the need for images for creating basic good looking designs.
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WordPress Plugins to backup your site to Google Drive
Google Drive offers you up to 5Gb free space for storage. I currently have most of that vacant since I have my important files backed up on Dropbox and Mozy. Hence have been considering of using this free space to save remote backups of my sites.
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Super charge your WordPress pages with Advanced Page Manager
WordPress’ support for posts is phenomenal. However, when it comes to managing pages, this is very limited. This is possibly because pages are relatively static and are more to add on permanent sections to your site like Contact forms or download areas like we do here at Techtites.
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