The greatest fear of webmasters, along the fear with being kicked out from google, is that you lose you website. If you lose 1 article or some work you won’t mind, but if you lose everything it is a great problem. It can be the end.
Better safe than sorry. There are small chances that something bad will happen with your data, but some prevention is good.
I will tell you a simple way to backup your wordpress data very fast. [Read the rest of this entry…]
Like all bloggers and webmasters you start either with a shared hosting, wither you ask a friend if he can help you with hosting for your site. You assume that your website will not generate too much traffic. It is true, a shared hosting can be the best choice. A shared hosting means that on the same computer and IP are hosted more websites.
They promise you unlimited space, unlimited bandwidth, and will give you that. At some point your website will grow in traffic and you can see that your website and you are asking yourself if your server is strong enough. [Read the rest of this entry…]
If you are on a shared server and you want to prevent your site going down due to massive traffic that comes to your wordpress you may consider installing a plugin that caches your pages.
WordPress is keeping all the data into a mysql database. The database connections are very slow sometimes and use the server resources more than they should. [Read the rest of this entry…]
Last week i had a client who liked a child theme for genesis, provided by studiopress and i had to work with genesis theme framework. Now i want to share with you how it was to work with genesis and where is good at.
My first impression was that it was somewhat built for wordpress users that have some knowledge on programming. Probably because i felt the need to tweak a lot of things to make my client happy. But those things were easy to do, the main features of the genesis framework helped me.
The genesis framework is more from those who want help to build normal sites with a lot of pages, which needs good navigation and pages to not be shown in the main menu. It saved me a lot of programming time if it were to do all by myself, and it helped me to keep the theme files clean, because most changes will be made trough the administration panel. [Read the rest of this entry…]
The lightbox effect is when you want to focus on a specific element on a webpage, everything else will go dark to highlight the one you want to focus on. On web pages, lightbox is used to show images, instead of opening a new browser window to view the image in full, you can use lightbox and show the image as a pop-up. When the image is clicked, it will show on the screen and everything else go dark.
This is very good to wordpress because you certain don’t want to post a 800 px image into your article content. In the first place, your page layout will be screwed, and second: the user will have a hard time to find what is the flow of your article. [Read the rest of this entry…]
An image worth one thousand words. True. It is a very good practice to add at least one image to every of your blog posts, or pages.
If you are describing something that you’ve done it is easy to take a screenshot or share an image made with your camera.
There are post where you don’t have a screenshot or camera image to show to your visitors. What to do ? You should add an image that at least can tell your visitors what it is about, what feeling you want to express in the post.
In this way your visitors can make a quick idea what the post is about, and then he will go to read your text headings. The image prepares your visitors with the mood or feeling needed to understand and like your post. [Read the rest of this entry…]
Blogs are everywhere so you must seen blogs who shows full posts on the blog front-page, and others who shows only a summary of the post and a link saying “Read more” or “Read the rest of this entry”.
There is a lot of debate on this subject, but the type of display depends of the type of your blog, the type of your visitors. For example, if all your blog posts are related one to each other, or if you are post them as a series, as capitols of a book there is no reason to show only summaries on the front page. Your readers will read all of them anyway so why to get them to do another click ?
If you post about a subject, but the article are not like a story and the are not related, and you also publish long posts it is a pain for visitors to show them the full post. [Read the rest of this entry…]
It is impossible to not notice that on many blogs some commentators have a photo and others don’t. You may think that the respective authors have users registered on that blog. That is not true, the current version of wordpress don’t support author photo.
They have photos on their comments because they use gravatar service. Gravatar allows you to make an account with your e-mail address and you can upload a photo. When you post a comment to a blog that have avatars enabled, the respective blog will try to get the photo from Gravatar. Cool, huh ?
If you change your photo it will be changed on all blogs you commented on.
So, go to http://www.gravatar.com and build your profile now. Comment on this blog post to test if your photo is showing.
If you are the only one who post on your blog it is still good to have an about author box somewhere. People will consider your articles more valuable if they know who wrote them ? This is happening because they want something to see to consider it worth reading. There are so many spam websites with articles written only for search engines or with comment stolen from some other website.
If they see an author box with an image they will think there are more chances that the content in original and is not spammy. Visitors tend to subscribe to a blog where they see the author name and face. Not every article from your blog will be an excellent piece of work, but from time to time you will write a very compelling article that your readers will remember or will bookmark it to read again some other time. They will want to associate that article with a human, with a face. Your visitors will come back more and you will have more subscribers. [Read the rest of this entry…]
When a plugin that you installed has an upgrade available, wordpress will notice you by adding a red small circle near the Plugins admin menu item. When you browse installed plugins you will see a link to upgrade under each plugin that has an upgrade available.
If you go away for a week, to holiday or something, when you come home you can see a lot of plugins that have upgrades available. Going trough each and clicking on upgrade links may take some time.
Well, the guys at wordpress taught at you time and they made a tool to upgrade all plugins at once. Scroll down into your administration panel menu and find Tolls -> Upgrade. There you can upgrade both the wordpress core and all plugins all once.