5 Useful WordPress Tips and Tricks

Now a days wordpress is not only use for blogging purpose but for as complete content management Web application.Here are some tips and tricks that are useful to make your wordpress more user friendly.

10 Most Useful Social Bookmarking Plugins

Tips Tech Tricks presents the 10 most useful social bookmarking plugins for wordpress around the web.

Socialgrid

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SocialGrid is a simple widget that makes it easy to add and organize links to your various profiles on the internet.
It currently supports the following services: Brightkite, Delicious, deviantART, Digg, Dopplr, Ember, Facebook, Flickr, Friendfeed, Google Profile, Last.fm, LinkedIn, MySpace, Picasa Web, Posterous, Qik, Readernaut, Reddit, RSS, StumbleUpon, Tumblr, Twitter, Technorati, Viddler, Vimeo, Virb, and YouTube!
Requires WP Version: 2.8 or higher.

10 Beautiful Content Slider Plugins for Wordpress

This time Tips Tech Tricks picks the 10 Beautiful Content Slider plugin for wordpress.Hope for likeness...

Front Slider Wordpress Plugin

Front Slider, with its smooth sliding effect, will allow you to display an unlimited number of posts including images and thumbnails. You can set the speed, duration and whether or not to allow it to auto-rotate. Overall its very easy to customise and can be integrated into most WP themes with ease.
Front Slider Wordpress Plugin 
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13 WordPress SQL QUERIES TO KNOW

As active users of WordPress  know that  WordPress is driven by a MySQL database. However, if you dont then this post is very helpful for you. MySQL is a free relational database management system (RDBMS)available in most web hosting services. All of the WordPress data like the posts, comments, categories, and settings are stored within the MySQL database. If you wish to read up more about MySQL, you can take a look at WordPress’s Database Schema.

Three Free Blank or Naked Themes for Wordpress Developers

Are you a wordpress theme developer.if you are,then you might have a problem of writing same type of code for your projects thats annoying you.Tips Tech Tricks brings the solution for you in the form of Three BlankTheme or Naked or Starter Themes 

BLANK WordPress Theme

BLANK is a WP starter theme brought to you from the developers behind Digging Into Wordpress.

Ten Tips For Optimizing Wordpress for Search Engines

1. Use a sitemap generator and generate XML sitemaps like twice a week.

2. Use an Ideal Robot.txt File which do the following:

Points to the sitemap in first line.
Disallow unnecessary pages, folders so search engines get to your content instead of wasting time and getting less important stuff.
Here is a sample : http://www.designzzz.com/robots.txt

SEO Checklist for Wordpress Blogs

You’re killing two birds with one stone. SEO begins with keyword research.  You need to understand what people are searching for when they are looking for your solution to their problem.  When people search, whether in the search engines or social media, they use keywords across the board.  So, when you optimize your blog posts for search engines, you are also optimizing for all locations they can search and possibly find your content.
You’re automating SEO when people share or link to your content. Because you’ve taken the time to include SEO best practices (short title with keyword rich text, etc), you end up automating good optimization when people share or link to your content.  This means people end up building great anchor text links automatically.  Which means you get better rankings and people who search (whether in search engines or elsewhere) actually find you more often.

Useful Suggestions To Secure And Speed Up Your WordPress Blog

WordPress is the most used blogging system and, thanks to the great community that works to enhance its features, nowadays it is used as full content management system. WordPress rocks, dude!
For these reasons it is (maybe) one of the most hacked CMS. In some cases a website proudly powered by WP could be slow without a correct configuration and administration.

There are some tricks that allow us to boost our WordPress installation in a few minutes. Below there is a list of useful tips to secure and speed up your blog system. Take your time for reading, they are very simple and they could be helpful to save your time in the future.

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Useful WordPress Coding Techniques

Since last year, the WordPress themes market has grown incredibly. The reason? Great designs, of course, but also a lot of amazing new functionality. Top WordPress developers are always looking to get the most out of WordPress and use all of their knowledge to find ways to make their favorite blogging engine even more powerful.

In this article, we have compiled 10 useful WordPress code snippets, hacks and tips to help you create a WordPress theme that stands out from the crowd.

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Google Buzz Button for WordPress

After Google launched Buzz just a few days ago there are already big speculations would it be next big thing – will see. But what I’m sure – if it grows massive you (blogger) would not like to miss it.

Big tech blogs like Mashable and TechCrunch have already added Google Buzz buttons to their articles for people to share their content. If you also want to have such feature on your blog download Google Buzz plugin here. With just a few click you will be able to setup the button and place in custom location on your blog.

Download The Plugin

Plugin is the easiest way to add Buzz button, but if you want to customize it more and build your own here is explained how to add button manually.
If u like this article then buzz it...

Mastering Your WordPress Theme Hacks and Tech Tricks

This is the first article in the four-part series, “Powerful guide to master Your WordPress”. Throughout this article, we’ll be focus on many WordPress Theme hacks, ideas, tips and useful tutorials you need to have ready in hand when developing WordPress websites.


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101 Techniques for a Powerful CMS using WordPress

Throughout this article, we’ll be focus on many WordPress Theme hacks, ideas, tips and useful tutorials you need to have ready in hand when developing WordPress websites.

There are some technical stuff we have to get out of the way first. Let’s take a look at useful, yet rather unknown techniques for a powerful CMS using WordPress. Each section of the article presents a suggestion and provides you with an explanation of the solution for each suggestion.

WordPress CMS Hacks and Tricks

Create A Peel Away Effect On Your Blog / Website

Introduction

If you are wondering how some webmasters or bloggers create this little peel away effect on the top right corner of their website, that means it is successfully getting your attention and we assume that’ll make visitors curiously wanting to peel it off and see what’s in store.

Full Content

This is certainly a very effective way to market products and bring more attention to pages you want visitors to focus. For webmasters cum online money makers, this can be a new interesting approach you can propose to advertisers. Creating a peel away effect on your website / blog is fairly simple. Full guide after jump.

Note: For wordpress users, you can skip doing this manually. This plugin will do the trick. Thanks Mohd Ismail.

1. Download Required Files

Download peel.zip (Alternative – Download), extract it. Your peel/ folder should contain these following files:

• large.swf
• large.jpg
• small.swf
• small.jpg
• peel.js

Plan where you should upload this folder at later stage. For Wordpress users, you are suggested to uploadpeel/ inside wp-content/themes/your_current_theme/. Fow now, let’s fire up your favorite text and image editor.

2. Edit Peel.Js

Open peel.js with your favorite text editor. Change these following settings:

1. jaaspeel.ad_url – URL you intend to point to.
2. jaaspeel.small_path – Path to small.swf
3. jaaspeel.small_image – Path to small.jpg
4. jaaspeel.big_path – Path to large.swf
5. jaaspeel.big_image – Path to large.jpg

Here’s an example, assuming the domain is hongkiat.com and I’m pointing it to google.com.

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1. jaaspeel.ad_url = escape('http://www.google.com');
2. jaaspeel.small_path = 'http://www.hongkiat.com/wp-content/themes/hongkiatdotcom/peel/small.swf';
3. jaaspeel.small_image = escape('http://www.hongkiat.com/wp-content/themes/hongkiatdotcom/peel/small.jpg');
4. jaaspeel.big_path = 'http://www.hongkiat.com/wp-content/themes/hongkiatdotcom/peel/large.swf';
5. jaaspeel.big_image = escape('http://www.hongkiat.com/wp-content/themes/hongkiatdotcom/peel/large.jpg');

3. Edit The Images

• small.jpg – The small background visitors see before content behind gets revealed. Edit if you’d like to match it with your background.
• large.jpg – What visitors will see after pointing their mouse to ‘peel the page off’. This is the image you’ll want to edit.

Both flash files, small.swf and large.swf can be left un-touch.

4. Upload Files

Upload the entire peel/ folder to via FTP your web account. Make sure it matches with the settings you’ve entered earlier in Step 2.

5. Add Javascript In Header

Add the following Javascript after before .

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1. <script src="http://www.domain.com/peel.js" type="text/javascript">script>

You are done! Refresh the website and you should notice a peel away effect on the top right corner of your site.