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22
Jun
2011

How To Improve WordPress Excerpt Without a Plugin

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In this tutorial I will show you how to enhance WordPress Excerpt by using simple functions and without the need of a plugin. WordPress Excerpt is an optional summary of your content.

The relationship between the Manual Excerpt, Automatic Excerpt, and Teaser is this: When a post has no manual excerpt and the post template uses the the_excerpt() tag, WordPress automatically generates an excerpt by selecting the first 55 words of the post followed by the unlinked ellipsis “[...]”. Continue Reading »

Last Updated: March 20, 2014
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25
May
2011

How To Add Related Posts to WordPress Without a Plugin

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Displaying “Related posts” is a popular feature and an excellent way to keep visitors longer on your WordPress blog and help them discover other related content. One way to keep them interested is to display a list of related posts; otherwise, they might just leave.

The picture below shows an example of Related Posts generated for this blog. Continue Reading »

Last Updated: March 20, 2014
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21
Apr
2011

How To Choose the Right Domain Name

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How to choose a great domain name.

Are you considering a domain name for your business? If so, I have listed 13 important tips to help you select a great domain name. A domain name is your unique business address online. It helps bring traffic to your business and suggest services or products of the the business.

Deciding on a domain name is an important decision you need to make. Continue Reading »

Last Updated: March 20, 2014
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06
Apr
2011

How To Find Tag ID, Page ID, Post ID, Link ID & Category ID in WordPress

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This simple tutorial shows you the easiest and the most convenient way to find the ID of your tags, pages, posts, links and Categories in WordPress without the need of a plugin. Prior to WordPress 2.5 these IDs were listed as an additional column in your administration panel. However; this is not the case anymore with the newer versions of WordPress. Continue Reading »

Last Updated: March 20, 2014
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31
Mar
2011

How To Customize WordPress Tag Cloud Without a Plugin

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For a WordPress blog, a Tag cloud displays a list of tags. Tags are usually single words, and the importance of each Tag is shown with different font size. The size of each Tag is determined by how many times that particular Tag has been assigned to posts. Tags are links that lead to a list of posts associated with each Tag. Continue Reading »

Last Updated: March 20, 2014
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27
Mar
2011

How To Add Custom WordPress Pagination Without a Plugin

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For a WordPress blog, pagination is used to display a limited number of posts per page. Compared to the default WordPress page navigation, numbered pagination allows users the ability to navigate much easier and deeper into the archives, like numbered pages of a book. Pagination is used in almost every Web application to display returned data on multiple pages. Continue Reading »

Last Updated: March 20, 2014
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09
Mar
2011

How To Prevent Skype from Highlighting Phone Numbers

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In this tutorial I will show you 3 solutions, from a developer´s point of view, how to prevent Skype from automatically highlighting phone numbers displayed in your Website. Also I will show you, from a user´s point of view, how to disable Skype phone highlighting in Internet Explorer.

The Problem

If you have Skype installed on your computer and you use Internet Explorer as your Web browser, then there is a good chance that Skype highlights phone numbers on Web pages as shown in the image below. Continue Reading »

Last Updated: March 20, 2014
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07
Mar
2011

Complete Backup of Your WordPress Website in 2 Simple Steps

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In this tutorial I will show you a 2 step process for a full backup of your WordPress Website. This is an important task as discussed in Tip3 of my previous tutorial about WordPress Security. This tutorial mainly focuses on manual backups of self-hosted WordPress Websites.

Why Backups are important? Because you cannot depend on your Web host to keep a current backup of your Website. Continue Reading »

Last Updated: March 20, 2014
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28
Feb
2011

Change Your WordPress Table Prefix in Few Simple Steps

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In this tutorial I will show you a step by step process how to change the default WordPress database table name prefix long after your WordPress Website has been online. This is known as "security through obscurity", in which by no means is, on its own, enough to secure your WordPress Website, but it is a one piece of an overall security strategy, as I discussed in my previous tutorial. Continue Reading »

Last Updated: March 20, 2014
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