After installing WordPress in the server, it is now time to familiarize about the WordPress admin panel. This is where most of the administrative tasks for you website are done. You need to know the common functions that are present in your admin panel so you can start working on your website. You can do [...]
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Getting Started with WordPress – Overview of the Admin Panel
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How to create a post in WordPress?
You have installed your WordPress, and now want to create your first posts, but don’t know how? Don’t worry; in this tutorial you are going to learn in 4 simple steps that how you can publish a post in wordpress. So let’s get started. Step 1:- Our first for creating a post in wordpress is [...]
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How to Install WordPress – Step by Step Guide
WordPress is one of the best open source platforms available that can used to build both dynamic web sites as well as blogs. This tutorial is intended to guide you through the installation processes of WordPress. Steps in Nutshell 1. Download the WordPress Installation package to your PC. Latest wordpress package is 3.04 which can [...]
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Install and update themes or plug-ins in seconds!
One of my favorite features of Wordpress is the ability to install/manage/update Themes and Plugins instantly from the Wordpress admin panel. You can quickly search the directory of over 12,000 Plugins and 1,000 Themes and install the files needed in seconds without ever leaving your browser.
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Why you should choose WordPress for your blog.
WordPress is the most widely used free open-source CMS and utilizes the most widely used web server software available today. While it’s popularity began as a blogging platform in 2004 it has quickly become one of the most powerful systems used today. WordPress uses a sophisticated template system so administrators can visually search, download and [...]
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How to add mcrypt without re-compiling your server’s php.
I have spent the last couple week looking at issues with Magento installations on different servers. My first experience went fairly smoothly, I upgraded php4 to php5 on Godaddy server and added mcrypt and mhash using yum installer. Everything was super easy except that the server never actually started using mcrypt and I also realized [...]
Google released Chatback, live chat for your website!
How did I miss this one? I was just doing some geeky Friday night research when I noticed a website was using what looked to be a Google chat account as the live chat on their website. So I searched and sure enough, in 2008 Google Talkabout’s Bruce Leban, wrote an article about the new [...]
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Avoid using the target attribute and keep your site accessible.
Today I was asked to add the target attribute to a site we are developing. While compiling my argument.. I suddenly responded.. “It’s not valid code!” While in many environments this may have caused tension; where I work this was just followed by laughter. Bryce immediately responded using BaseCamp to state: “Mike says it isn’t [...]
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“of course PHP is the most gangster language. Why do you think they make you prefix your variables with dollar signs?” Jim Danko said this: http://twitter.com/jimdanko
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How to Edit a comment in WordPress
Just received a mail from the wordpress stating you have received a new comment. And you are really excited to check it. But when you check your site there is nothing. Don’t panic as the comment is waiting for your approval. As your wordpress don’t want spam comments to be published without asking you. Trust [...]