Archive for 2012

How To Create a Variable Length Excerpt in WordPress Without a Plugin

WordPress Excerpt is a summary of your posts. In this tutorial, I will show you how to generate variable Length Excerpt that completes the sentence. Meaning that the Excerpt is not cut off mid-sentence. Also, I will show you how to preserve All, Some or None of the HTML formatting in the Excerpt, among several other features listed below. Continue Reading »

Top 17 Free WordPress Security and Backup Plugins

Boutros AbiChedid - WordPress Security.

Securing your WordPress Website is critical in growing your online presence. As your Website becomes more popular it becomes more attractive to Crackers.

If you are looking for Security and Backup Plugins for your WordPress Website, then look no further. In this article, I share and review the Best 17 Free WordPress Security and Backup Plugins that don´t cost you anything. Continue Reading »

Choosing the Right Personal Content Management App

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The area of online storage has dramatically expanded in the past several months to encompass a more robust theme: that of a personal content management. The idea that you can create a repository of your personal files and access them from any Internet-enabled device is the next logical step in cloud computing.

Yet, deciding which Personal Content Management App is the right choice for you can be a challenge. Continue Reading »

How To Remove Header Tags and Their Content in WordPress Excerpt

WordPress Excerpt is a summary of your content. In this tutorial, I will show you how to selectively remove Header Tags (h1 through h6) and their content for the automatically generated excerpt. Also I will show you how to selectively remove Header Tags and their content while at the same time preserving HTML formatting for other HTML tags. Continue Reading »

Top 5 Mobile Website Building Tools

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Website building tools for Mobile devices.

Using the Internet on mobile handheld devices is a rather convenient option for users. Considering such convenience, entrepreneurs and SME owners initiated a dazzling idea of mobile Websites. The launch of mobile Websites originated a marketing oriented trend that received increased user engagement and hit a never touched market segment. In this post, we will review the top 5 mobile Website building tools to consider. Continue Reading »

How To Disable Self Pingbacks in WordPress Without a Plugin

By default, WordPress blog automatically send a pingback to itself any time you link to one of your own internal old post. It would be nice if this self-pingback feature can be turned off in the dashboard.

Self-pings, or pings within your own blog, are found useful by some, annoying by others. Those who find them useful feel that self-pingbacks is a good approach to increase inter-linking between posts. Continue Reading »

The AbiChedid’s Days of the Week

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The objective of this post is (hopefully) to cheer you up for April´s Fool day and also to celebrate my 98th post on this blog. I was supposed to publish this yesterday, on April First, but I am late. But as they say: “Better late than Sorry.”

You know the English version of the days of the Week, and this is the AbiChedid´s version:

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Trackbacks and Pingbacks in WordPress

In this tutorial, I will discuss the basics of Trackbacks and Pingbacks in WordPress. For now, remember that both are methods for blogs to communicate with each other. Trackbacks are more prone to spam than Pingbacks. All WordPress Websites are set up, by default, to send and receive pingbacks automatically.

If used properly, trackbacks and pingbacks are another way to increase traffic to your blog and build links. Continue Reading »

How To Display & Modify Allowed HTML Tags in WordPress Comments | allowed_tags

In this tutorial I will show you how to display the WordPress default allowed HTML Tags list for the comment form on your WordPress blog, as shown in the image below:

Add Notice for Comments: Allowed default HTML Tags and attributes.

Also, I will show you how to modify the allowed HTML tags and attributes list to fit your needs. I will show you how to remove tags from the default list and how to add HTML tags to the list for the Comment textarea in WordPress. Continue Reading »

CodeLobster Integrated Development Environment (IDE) – Review

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CodeLobster is a code editor for PHP, HTML, JavaScript and CSS. A shareware product that offers code debugging, syntax highlighting, dynamic help, auto-complete, class view and other features that helps with coding. Codelobster PHP Edition streamlines and simplifies PHP development process. You don’t need to keep in mind names of functions, arguments, etc. It is implemented for you in the auto-complete feature for PHP, HTML, JavaScript and even CSS. Continue Reading »