Last June 27, 2012, WordPress released its version 3.4.1 to the public. This update includes some maintenance and security update to the WordPress core. This update requires an upgrade of the WordPress MySQL database. This…
In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to create an “About Us” widget with widget options. Before we begin, please make sure that your WordPress theme is widget-ready. If it’s not widget-ready, this…
If you are a WordPress beginner, it is an absolute requirement that you understand how to shorten your PHP source code when you are editing your template. A lot of beginner mistakes are the inefficiency…
This is a tutorial on how you can implement the most important onsite SEO tweaks to your WordPress blog without ever using a plugin. While plug-in is useful for making things easy and direct, it…
This is a complete step by step procedure for WordPress beginners on how to integrate an Oauth 2.0 compliant Facebook comments in your WordPress blog. Oauth 2.0 is the open standard for authorization and authentication…
By default, WordPress allows only the maximum of 20 items in the RSS widget. In many cases, we need more than 20 items, like “Top 25 Free Apps” or “Top 30 Songs in 2011.” This…
This is a WordPress tutorial for integrating Google custom search to power up your WordPress search results. This tutorial assumes you have basic knowledge in PHP programming. There are two common methods: 1.) Simple method…
Even the greatest Masterpiece has its flaws. Similar to the security of your website. In most cases, it is due to our negligence on certain aspects like admin password, theme and plugin updates. In this…
WordPress is an free and open source blogging and CMS tool. WordPress is easy to manage and at the same time, a very powerful tool. One can easily extend the functionality of WordPress by installing…
If you own a website or blog, you probably use buttons like, Tweet, Like, +1, etc. to let users share the content easily (if you don’t, please start using them now! They are very useful)….
This is a simple tutorial for beginners in WordPress on how you can defer parsing of JavaScript to improve the page loading performance of your blog. This also improves your Google Page Speed score which…
Bounce rate is always a big problem for bloggers particularly for these reasons: 1.) High bounce rate means that readers do not engage with their blog too often; a sign of poor blogging quality. 2.)…
OK you might already know the most basic tips in improving WordPress blog speed which are: a.) Using caching plug-insb.) Using gzip plug-insc.) Implementing Content delivery network (CDN) There are a lot of tutorials on…
If you have not yet updated your blog to WordPress 3.3, try using the auto-updating feature first. But make sure you have performed a back-up of your blog. If time is limited, pay attention to…
Do you want to add Q&A section in your WordPress website that is fully integrated with WordPress user management system and database? With this method, your Q&A section and your WordPress website share the same…