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Top Best FeedBurner Alternative Services after its shutdown

May 3, 2018July 29, 2013 by NARGA Editorial

Why are we looking for Best FeedBurner Alternative Services?

Since July 1st, 2013 Google Reader has been shutted down. What’s about FeedBurner? Will FeedBurner shuting down after Google Reader is gone? If you run a blog there are a lot of things to know about and consider doing with this change coming up that you’ll want to take care of in the next couple months.
After your FeedBurner feed is not working anymore, you’re not alone and you basically have two choices – switch to your blog platform’s atom feed for free (no analytics), or switch to the alternative services like: Feedblitz, FeedPress, FeedCat …

Prevent Hidden Causes by Clean up WordPress Database Bloat Issues

August 21, 2018July 15, 2013 by NARGA Editorial

After running your WordPress website more than 2 years, you will find your database size bigger than your thoughts. Over time WordPress saves a ton of information to its database, which can become bloated with unnecessary values, thus slowing down your site and putting more stress on your server setup. WordPress database bloat may be the hidden cause of a number of issues your blog may be experiencing!
Just like anything, your WordPress blog also needs some maintenance, servicing and cleaning every now and then to keep it running smoothly, speedily and effectively. In this post we’ll look at 10 ways you can give your WordPress install a spring clean to trim the fat and put everything in its place. So then, it helps you prevent hidden causes may occurring to your WordPress website.

Asynchronously Javascript Loading for Social Button

June 6, 2015June 24, 2013 by NARGA Editorial

Social buttons are most common methods to sharing your post to social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Google+. But after added your favourite social network script, be it like buttons or twitter widgets to your site or blog and then you notice that the load time of you page went drastically down. What happened?

How to Schedule Backup WordPress Database

September 10, 2019June 17, 2013 by NARGA Editorial

Do a schedule backups of your WordPress MySQL database is the most important thing to do when running your own WordPress website, it is required to restore your blog, it needs to urgently migrate to another host or restore your database from a crashed server.

From official WordPress guidline – The WordPress Codex, you will find some excellent ways to back up database using phpMyAdmin, MySQL commands, and MySQL administrator. But are you willing to backup your site daily, weekly, monthly and everyday of the year by yourself? There are too many methods, plugins, tools which help you done this job by automatically back up your MySQL database for you and send it across to a safe storage space such that the latest backup is there whenever you need it, wherever you need to restore database from across the world.

There are several ways to backup MySQL data. In this article I will show you how to backup your databases using different methods, we will also learn how to achieve an automatic backup solution to make the process easier, including the backup of your database to a file, another server, and even a compressed gzip file and send it to your email.

Styling Chat Transcript with WordPress Custom Post Format

May 30, 2013 by NARGA Editorial

Some people are confused about the Post Formats feature that introduced with Version 3.1, especially how it differs from Custom Post Types. Have you ever known about Tumblr? The Post Format function emulates Tumblr style posts. It all depends on what you want that particular post format to display.
I know that when post formats first came out, the “Chat” format was always one I didn’t really know how to handle. How does the user input the chat into the content of the post? How do we display it?

JetPack – WordPress plugin Everyone should active first

May 20, 2013 by NARGA Editorial

As you known, WordPress has a ton of plugins. So, when you start a new website based on WordPress, you’ll searching for most popular and must-have plugins like me before. After running some WordPress websites, I recommended you that JetPack and Akismet are WordPress plugins that everyone should use.

Improve Octopress with Advanced Tweaks & Tips

April 28, 2014May 13, 2013 by NARGA Editorial

Octopress is a framework design for Jekyll. It’s static site generator and that’s why it lacks of advance feature like WordPress (Read more about it if you would like to move from WordPress to Octopress). Jekyll support plugins so you can use it for improve your website that’s based on Octopress.
From last post, you’ve known some tips to help your blogging processes with Octopress easier than normal. In this post, I will continuing show you some advanced tweaks to improve Octopress power.

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Five Best Google Reader Alternatives that’re also Free

October 25, 2016April 22, 2013 by NARGA Editorial

I’m reading news and follow some important website through RSS (Feed) protocol. My RSS reader – RSSOwl’s database size is 3GB since 2004, it’s synchronized with Google Reader as well. So after Google announcement about the end of Google Reader, I’m looking for an alternative application like Google Reader.

Best 15 Free Android Apps for Blogging

March 2, 2018April 15, 2013 by NARGA Editorial

Now, mobile devices has becoming basic necessity of life. At one point or another, almost all of us have tried blogging in some form. Thankfully, that Android device which you have in your pocket is a valuable tool to help you no matter what your needs are. In this article, you’ll learn about some useful apps to maintain your blog using a phone or tablet.

Tips and Tricks for Migrating From Wordpress to Octopress

Tips & Tricks for Migrating From WordPress to Octopress

March 16, 2014April 8, 2013 by NARGA Editorial

I’ve migrated one of WordPress Websites to OctoPress. It’s easy to done but OctoPress won’t works well as expected. I spent a week to corrected entire post contents to make it compatible with Markdown format and fix some problems encountered when running new blogging platform. Today, I write this post to share my experiences after migrated from WordPress to OctoPress, hope it can help you if you have the same problem.

Understanding Social Media Meta Tags & Open Graph Protocol

January 3, 2015March 27, 2013 by NARGA Editorial

Do you know the Social Media Meta Tags and Open Graph Protocol can affect social media traffic? When you are sharing a url to social networks, they will find the social information which you defined between head tags, if it’s not available, they will get it’s in the post content.
Social Media Meta Tags and Open Graph Protocol are common names of Google Authorship, Twitter Card, Facebook Open Graph … Here’s how you can leverage both of them:

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