Archive for March, 2011

How To Customize WordPress Tag Cloud Without a Plugin

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 »

How To Add Custom WordPress Pagination Without a Plugin

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 »

15 Best Free Online Data Storage & Backup Services

This is my eighth post in this series. It is a handy list, a one stop shop if you like, of the best Freemium Online data Storage, File Sharing, File synchronization and Backup services. Ok! I admit, there are NO totally free services available.

Everyone needs to backup important data in one way or another. Continue Reading »

How To Prevent Skype from Highlighting Phone Numbers

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 »

Complete Backup of Your WordPress Website in 2 Simple Steps

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 »