Tutorials

How To Display Author Profile Picture On Google Search Engine?

July 27, 2011

It looks attractive to see an author image appear next to post titles with a small snippet on the homepage of a blog (like you see on Shoutmeloud). What if the same happens on Google Search Engine as well? Yes, we can achieve the same effect on Google Search Engine using the Authorship Tool. Just take a look at the following screen shot for better understanding. Isn’t it cool? Well, definitely yes! Why should I ...

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How to Design Attractive Subscription Box With Hover Effects Using CSS Sprites

July 26, 2011

Subscription box is a must have for any blog or website to let readers connect with you on various social networking site. Though to make most out of it, it’s important to have an attractive subscription box on your sidebar or at any prominent space around your blog post. In this article, I’ll illustrate the same effect but with a more practical example. I’ll be using the same technique to create an attractive subscription box with ...

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How to Integrate Google Page Speed with W3 Total Cache

July 1, 2011

Earlier I wrote about How to configure W3 Total cache and also about Google Page speed. Latest version of W3 total cache allow you to integrate with Google page speed to see the performance of your site. Faster your site is, better it’s for search engine ranking. In this guide, I will be sharing how to enable Google page speed inside W3 total cache. I assume, you must have installed w3 Total cache plugin. In ...

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WordPress Tags : What is it & How to Organize Them?

May 27, 2011

When we talk about organizing a WordPress blog structure, Tags and categories plays major role. People who migrated from BlogSpot, they often get confused as BlogSpot only offers label. Today, I’m going to talk a little about WordPress tags, so that you can utilize it better and keep your blog structure clean. Read: Check out complete WordPress guide What are WordPress tags? Alright, let me start with hard way and understand tags and categories are entirely ...

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How to Delete Custom Field value from WordPress Database

May 7, 2011

If your WordPress blog is old, probably you will notice lots of custom field meta_key in your WordPress custom field option. The problem with this is that you will see lots of unused custom field values which is added by some old theme or by plugin which you used long time back. Here is a screenshot of ShoutMeLoud custom field which has lots of custom value and many of them are because of old theme ...

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How to Migrate WordPress Hosting & Change Domain Name

March 30, 2011

If you are a self hosted blogger for long, I’m sure you must have get into a situation where you have to migrate WordPress hosting many times. Personally, this blog ShoutMeLoud has been migrated many times from Dreamhost > Hostgator > Knownhost > Linode > Hostgator. Yah, in 3 year tenure of this Wp blog, that’a quite a change of Webhosting. Some, Webhosting offer dedicated support for migration of your Webhosting account and some of ...

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How to Set Up Facebook Birthday Notification Using Google Calendar?

March 26, 2011

Of all the features of Facebook, I like Facebook birthday feature which help us to see all the friend’s birthday on sidebar so that we never miss any friend’s birthday. I hope you all know the pain of missing friend’s birthday and here I’m sharing a tip which will take help of Facebook friend’s birthday feature and Google calendar, so that you will Facebook birthday notification for each friend’s birthday who is on your Facebook ...

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