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
The ways which I've ever tried, an ideal backup procedure should be simple, heavily automated and provide quick recovery option for almost any problem. Your backup must be up-to-date and it's can store on your computer, anothers hosting server, anothers online storage service ....
Choosing a WordPress backup plugin that is right for you which has listed below
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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
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 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 Media Process v1.0
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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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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WordPress 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
- Encrypt your login
- Stop brute force attack
- Use a strong password
- Protect your wp-admin folder
- Remove WordPress version info, WordPress Error-Messages
- Hide your plugins folder
- Change your login name
- Upgrade to the latest version of WordPress and plugins
- Do a regular security scan
- Backup your wordpress database
- 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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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.
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