[How-To] Safely Test-drive Themes on WordPress

While switching a theme in your WordPress blog, it’s quite obvious that you’ll put your blog down to maintenance, do all the back-stage work (widgets, tweaks) and finally activate the theme, so your visitors won’t notice your blog’s design being broken if they happen to visit right in the middle of your work. Though the [...]

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[How-To] Tracking your Blog Visitors

So you have a blog with great content, optimized for search engines and ready to get exploding traffic? But how do you know which of your articles are most liked by your visitors, and how many unique visitors and impressions your blog gets daily? To track these, you’ll have to feed your blog with few [...]

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Maintenance Splash Page [WordPress]

Though WordPress is the best for Blogging, it lacks few features by default. For instance, Joomla helps you show a Maintenance page with just few clicks, but WordPress doesn’t. Similarly, you can’t set ‘unpublished’ status to categories in WordPress if you temporarily want hide a category. Luckily WordPress’ repository has got over thousands of plugins [...]

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Eliminate Comment Spammers [WordPress]

A best solution to prevent spammers from commenting is to have a CAPTCHA or Math-based verification as spam bots fail to pass through the verification. A simple solution would be a math-based verification wherein a commenter is asked only to answer simple math questions. Here's a post on how to prevent spammers from posting on your blog.

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Block Spammers from Visiting your Site/Blog

Block Spammers from visiting your site/blog. A simple guide to block spammers with their IP address using cPanel or by editing .htaccess file or by a plugin for WordPress.

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Optimize your WordPress Database

A Plugin that does all the house-keeping work; removes all post revisions, spam and unapproved comments from the database. Optimizes Database tables.

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Find out Broken Links in your WordPress Blog

A Plugin that automatically finds and reports broken links on your WordPress Self-hosted Blog

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Safely Migrating Permalinks [WordPress]

A Tutorial on how to safely migrate/change Permalinks with a 301 Permanent Redirection

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WordPress Upgrade Error

WordPress, by default, offers you an easy way to upgrade your WordPress Core by using the ‘Automatically Upgrade’ button that you can find in homepage/Dashboard of your administrator backend. When you use this Automatic Upgrade, you might often end up with a failed installation notice that reads “Could not copy file: /public_html/../wp-content/upgrade/core/wordpress/wp-comments-post.php” or a similar [...]

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WordPress : Track your RSS Readers

I recently blogged on a WordPress Plug-in, Tracked Tweets, that would automatically update your Twitter with your blog posts. And here comes yet another WordPress Plug-in from Jack McIntyre – Tracked RSS.

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