Move from Wordpress.com to your own Wordpress.org self-host

Things to do when move your website from WordPress.com to self hosted

You’ve started your first blog on WordPress.com because the service was free, you weren’t required to have any technical skills and there were plenty of widgets, themes and plug-ins to help you quickly customize the blog. However, a time comes when you might want to move to your own domain name which is a continuance of your WordPress.com blog. Moving your WordPress.com blog to a self-hosted WordPress.org is actually more simple than you might believe! Sure there’s a few steps but all good things require a bit of work, right?
Move from WordPress.com to your own WordPress.org self-host

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Jetpack Wordpress.com Stats Configuration

How to hide The WordPress Stats Smiley Face

Automattic just released a collection of plugins as one “super-plugin” called Jetpack. As they explained it, the goal was to bring eight of the most requested features available on WordPress.com to the millions of self-hosted WordPress sites in one easy-to-install curated package. If you use JetPack Stats on your site (formerly released as a stand alone plugin called WordPress.com stats), you may be familiar with the smiley face image that it adds to the bottom of every page on your site.

Top 20 Most Common Wordpress Plugins for starters

Top 20+ Most Common WordPress Plugins for starters

WordPress has a lot of plugins developed by many people. A headache after you install your own WordPress blog that “What is the necessary and useful WordPress plugins need to install after I got a WordPress blog?”
Let’s take a look at the 20 most commonly used plugins on WordPress blogs across the web, including those that offer more features, to those that simply reduce the simple tasks of running a blog.

Top 20 Most Common WordPress Plugins for starters
Top 20 Most Common WordPress Plugins for starters

If you are new to WordPress, this basic list (which is technically not limited to plugins alone) should help get you started on the right foot. Whether you are running a basic brochure site, or a full featured blog, you should be sure your WordPress site includes these essentials.

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Make your own Wordpress Drop-Down menu

Make your own WordPress Drop-Down menu with CSS and jQuery

A drop down menu is often your best means of keeping the navigation simple and uncluttered, that can offer your theme and users 2 new things. One, add a nice new type of effect to enhance your theme. Two, allow the users to find things more easily. There are a few plugins that you can use to make this, but in this post, I’ll show you how to make your own WordPress Drop-Down menu with CSS and jQuery and WordPress’s standard wp_list_pages, wp_nav_menu, wp_list_categories

Make your own WordPress Drop-Down menu
Make your own WordPress Drop-Down menu

The aim of this short tutorial is help you build a simple multi-level drop-down menu in your WordPress theme using jQuery’s JavaScript library to make sure cross-browser compatibility.

To get started with this tutorial, you’ll need to have a WordPress website up and running and a willingness to alter your theme files. Once that’s squared away you’re ready to rock!

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Essential Wordpress Plugins to Backing Up your Database

10+ Essential WordPress Plugins to Backing Up your Database

Just imagine, then, the all-consuming sorrow of losing weeks, months or even years of blog posts or other site content. Your hosting company may provide a responsible backup service (or you may have a well-considered system in place if your site is self-hosted) but some extra insurance can be crucial if the unexpected happens (as it did for one of our client sites today).
Keeping an up-to-date blog backup copy, is one of those things that every one would like to do but are either too lazy to actually do it or have no clear idea of how it can be done. Backup is vital but it needs to be painless otherwise people just do it less often (which defeats the purpose, your backup should not really be older than a couple of days ago).

Essential WordPress Plugins to Backing Up your Database
Essential WordPress Plugins to Backing Up your Database

The ways which I’ve ever tried, an ideal backup procedure should be simple, heavily automated and give quick recovery option for almost any problem. Your backup must be up-to-date and it’s can store on your computer, another hosting server, another online storage service ….
Choosing a WordPress backup plugin that is right for you which has listed below

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Highlighting Author Comments in Wordpress

How to Highlight Author Comments in WordPress using CSS

Many blogs highlight the author’s comment in the comments section. I’m talking about how to highlight comments posted by the author of the article. You can use many plugins to get this effect (For eg., the Highlight Author Comments Plugin) – but you don’t have to. You can get the get the same effect by adding a small bit of CSS code to your theme.

Highlighting Author Comments in WordPress
Highlighting Author Comments in WordPress

Most snippets will target and try to find author’s email or user id, but that actually slows your site down. Why not using CSS selector and find author’s comment and change the background color so it is easily pointed out. Pretty smart. After that, it was a simple matter of times to see the result.

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Social Bookmarking Link Codes

45+ Most Popular Social Bookmarking Link Codes for WordPress

Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to share, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web resources. Unlike file sharing, the resources themselves aren’t shared, merely bookmarks that reference them. With Social Bookmark websites, users can save and categorize a personal collection of bookmarks and share them with others. Your visitors can now bookmark and submit your websites to all their favorite social bookmark services with the ease of a single click.
So how can we encourage more people to share our links? One of the easiest options is to include a set of links at the bottom of your posts which readers can click to automatically vote for your article.
Social Bookmarking Link Codes

In this post, I’ve written the WordPress codes for 45+ of the most popular social bookmarking and networking sites out there.

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WordPress 2.9 Carmen With New Features Every Developer Must Know

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On December 18th, 2009, WordPress Version 2.9, named in honor of magical jazz vocalist Carmen McRae, was released to the public before the year ends. You can upgrade easily from your Dashboard by going to Tools > Upgrade, or you can download from WordPress.org. The WordPress 2.9 requires MySQL 4.1.2 or greater.
You can read the full list of new features, changes, upgrades, and improvements on the WordPress Codex. Following is our list of resources for more significant features/changes from developer’s point of view:

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Essential Wordpress Plugins to Improve Security & Protection 1

Essential WordPress Plugins to Improve Security & Protection

Essential WordPress Plugins to Improve your blogs Security and ProtectionWordPress is getting more and more popular each day, nobody can guarantee that your WordPress installation is 100% secure. Securing your WordPress blog is the most important thing that you must do after you have set it up on your server.
Before you read on, you need to know about Checklist to Improve WordPress Security

  1. Encrypt your login
  2. Stop brute force attack
  3. Use a strong password
  4. Protect your wp-admin folder
  5. Remove WordPress version info, WordPress Error-Messages
  6. Hide your plugins folder
  7. Change your login name
  8. Upgrade to the latest version of WordPress and plugins
  9. Do a regular security scan
  10. Backup your WordPress database
  11. Define user privilege

There are many WordPress Plugins which help you in securing your Blogs, I will share some tips, tricks and resources which will surely help you to secure and lock down your WordPress site and to fortify it from unwarranted attacks.

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35 Creative Wordpress Custom Login Design 2

35 Creative WordPress Custom Login Design

WordPress is being used as a membership site, or site where user registration is allowed. In those cases it is wise for businesses to brand the login page with their logo and other aspects to give it a unique touch that it deserves. WordPress login page is simple, this is the reason many people want to change the login page as they want. In this article we will be showing you some of Creative WordPress Custom Login Design that will take you custom your WordPress Login Pages.

Block, street & building blog
Block, street & building blog

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