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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Most Beautiful Feminine Wordpress Themes for Woman Blogs 3

Most Beautiful Feminine WordPress Themes for Woman Blogs

The concept of aesthetic sophistication of women than men so much, that’s their privilege. For women, in my opinion, the design does not need too important to their blogs, what they concern is the color and layout content feminine or not? They do not care much to new technology, design style and new trend ….

Pinky Kupy

Pink Kupy 1.0. A 2 column, fixed width theme, widgets not supported unfortunately. Download Pinky Kupy

Pink Kupy
Pink Kupy

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Wordpress recent posts and recent comments

How to list most recent comments and recent post in WordPress

Installing too many plugins will make the WordPress blog work slowly and unstable, use code built-in your theme will reduce the system resources.

Wordpress recent posts and recent commentsI’ve known a ton of plugins and widgets that allows me to list recent comments and recent post on my WordPress blog but I’m not using it. Because I’ve integrated some useful code below then I get results similar to those extensions which I’ve known.

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Mastering Worpress [gallery] shortcode

From WordPress 2.5, the Gallery feature allows the option to add an image gallery to a Post or Page on your WordPress blog.
Upload all your photos and simply type the shortcode [gallery in a post or page to display a thumbnail gallery of images attached to that post or page. Clicking on a thumbnail image will open either the original image or a larger image in a separate Attachment page.

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Using Wordpress plugins to make your website mobile friendly 4

Using WordPress plugins to make your website mobile friendly

In some earlier post, you has been known how to convert your website mobile friendly with online services and common problems when creating a website for mobile devices.

WordPress is a very popular PHP based Open Source blogging tool. By installing mobilizer plugins, your wordpress blog becomes mobile friendly, and all your earlier blog postings become ready to mobile-accessible with a minimum effort on your part. Below is amazing Plugins to view your WordPress Blog on any Mobile Device (iPhone, PDA…).

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