There are a plenty of plugins that can be used for adding almost any functionality to your WordPress powered site. However, if you’re someone who like to build things from the ground up, then probably you won’t like to make use of the existing plugins. You can roll out your own stuff! When building something from scratch you’ll understand the underlying implementation of the thing that you’re creating, and will even gain skills that might end up using the same skills while working on another WP project.
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Improve WordPress Comments System with Social Comments
The default comments system built into WordPress is very basic and not good as we expected to prevent spam (How To Stop WordPress Spam Comments?), connect to your audience… and it’s lacking of advanced functionality to improve the way to commenting on your website. Thankfully, WordPress plugins can help you done with threaded commenting (include in core comments system), use social media accout to login and comment, mark a comment as favorite/like/helpful or not …
The Social Comments System like Facebook, Google+, Disqus… breaking down the barriers between you and your audience. When someone reads an article on your site and wants to comment, they can now use one of their existing social networking accounts to post a comment.
Let’s take a look at some Social Comment Systems that will elevate you above the default WordPress comments system.
9 Syntax Highlighter Plugins and Services for Embedding Code Snippets in WordPress
WordPress is using TinyCME as default editor, so displaying code within a post is not an easy task. That is why there are some amazing developers who create plugins to make that solve this niggly issue.
However, there are some simple and effective ways to do this by use WordPress code snippet plugins or 3rd-party services there can help you maintain the original formatting of any code being inserted in WordPress posts and make your blog a lot more appealing to the readers.
Following are a list of best WordPress plugins or 3rd-party services to highlight code snippets within your blog that I have personally tried.
Jetpack’s bloat, replace Jetpack’s modules with other plugins
JetPack is all-in-one WordPress plugin developed by Automattic, made up of a bunch of useful modules, they called it as super-plugin. When I first heard about Jetpack, I was excited about the potential for WordPress.com features to be shared with WordPress.org users. It’s good choice (must have) when you start a WordPress website and in some previous post, I’ve told why do you should active JetPack first. But all-in-one or everything functionality plugin is not good for you, sometimes you will feel it
Prevent Hidden Causes by Clean up WordPress Database Bloat Issues
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.
How to Schedule Backup WordPress Database
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.
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.
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.