Wordpress Tutorials

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 Add QR Codes to Your WordPress Blog

March 10, 2011

A day will come when all you have to do to download/share a file with others is just scan it using your phone and voila!! You’re done. This is possible thanks to the very much expanding means of sharing files known as QR Codes. QR stands for Quick Response and is basically a 2/3-dimensional bar code that stores information of almost any kind. All you have to do to retrieve the data is scan it ...

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How to Uninstall W3 Total Cache WordPress Plugin

January 20, 2011

W3 total cache is one of the those plugin, which I always recommend everyone to install for faster loading of the site. Though, at times due to hosting compatibility issues or due to non-compatibility with other plugins, total cache act weird and it’s important to uninstall W3 total cache manually or automatically. Earlier I have shared How to Install W3 Total Cache plugin which is said to be better cache plugin than Super cache plugin. ...

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How to Set up WordPress Blog [CheckList]

January 18, 2011

WordPress is one of those Blogging platform, which changed the life of many people and made professional Blogging and managing a website easy. Installing a WordPress blog is very effortless these days, especially with one-click installers that comes with most web hosts. The workload only comes in when you start setting up your brand new blog. If you have not set up WordPress blog before, you can follow the checklist below to setup a basic ...

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How to Install & Configure W3 Total Cache WordPress Plugin

September 22, 2010

Speed of page is an important factor for better reader experience and also from search engine perspective. In WordPress we have many cache plugins that we can use and out of all the plugins, Wp Super cache and W3 total cache are my favorite. I have heard a lot of good things about total cache plugin which is also a caching plugin like Super cache but with more options. Specially if you are planning to use ...

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VaultPress Review : WordPress Premium Backup System

August 30, 2010

Backing up your blog timely is one thing which everyone should be doing every day. Though, it’s good to have an automated sustem and we have already shared ways to backup WordPress. Today, we are extending the list with VaultPress review, which is a premium backup service from WordPress parent company AutoMattic. 5 months back I posted about Premium Back service from AutoMattic, Automattic is the same company behind WordPress. I got the golden ticket ...

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5 Must Thing for Every WordPress Blog

July 20, 2010

This is a Guest post by Vinayak who is 11-year-old blogger (Youngest Blogger) and he blogs at MaDbLoG. If you like to write for Shoutmeloud do read: Shoutmeloud revenue sharing program. WordPress is an awesome blog platform and few days back one of guest author at Shoutmeloud has written about Why beginners should blog with WordPress. To help you get start with WordPress, we have already shared a post on 8 essential settings after installing ...

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7 Essential WordPress Security Tips

July 5, 2010

For any website, a security strategy is a must. And as wordpress is the most popular open source software for blogging, it is a primary target of many malicious attacks. Wordpress has many protective plugins, functions and techniques to save you. When used in an aggregate, these tools can defend you from vicious activity, hacks, spam and other threats. Let us have a look to few of these techniques today.

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