Category: Wordpress Tips and Tricks

How To Protect Emails On Your Site From Spam Bots
23 Feb
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How To Protect Emails On Your Site From Spam Bots

Have you ever typed out your email plainly on your site or another site only to get so many spam messages to your mailbox few hours later? Many people are victims of this. This unwanted spam messages comes because the site where the email address was written was not protected from malicious spam bots called email harvesters.

Most websites innocently paste emails, maybe theirs or that of clients into their posts, pages or even a contact page. Spammers use email harvesting bots to collect these emails automatically and then send unwanted messages to them or  sell them to other spammers. This puts the owners of the emails at risk of receiving several spam mails daily. Read more about How To Protect Emails On Your Site From Spam Bots …

How To Upgrade WordPress Version Manually
20 Feb
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How To Upgrade WordPress Version Manually

WordPress is dynamic and often there are updates made to it. This update in most cases can be done automatically from the dashboard, but in some cases it doesn’t work. At such times, the next alternative is to do a manual upgrade. Many people consider this a daunting task, however in this tutorial we would make it a piece of cake. Grab your coffee and follow along. Read more about How To Upgrade WordPress Version Manually …

How to import posts
16 Feb
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How to import posts

How To Import Post From Previous Blogger or WordPress Site

Are you coming from Blogger to WordPress? Or moving from one WordPress blog to another? Whichever the case, you want to still keep your old posts and want them on your new blog. Happily, WordPress supports importing data in the form of posts (articles) and most of the details or features supported by the content publishing platform.

This tutorial will help you move your posts from your old blog to your new site. Read more about How to import posts …

How to Install WordPress In Your Language
13 Feb
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How to Install WordPress In Your Language

Today, millions of sites are built on WordPress. This is because of it’s easy to use interface and powerful features. Among the sites that have been built on WordPress are English sites, French, Spanish, German and other language sites. By default, WordPress speaks English. Would you like to install WordPress in another language of your choice? Here is how to go about it. Read more about How to Install WordPress In Your Language …

How to use WordPress as a photoblog
06 Feb
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How to use WordPress as a photoblog

Are you a professional photographer or just love taking awesome photos? Then you have considered the possibility of having a photoblog and sharing your beautiful photos on your website. WordPress makes it super easy to have a photoblog and easily manage it. In this tutorial, we assume you have WordPress already installed on your server and have a nice theme. Read more about How to use WordPress as a photoblog …

How to backup database
30 Jan
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How to backup database

The importance of a database backup in WordPress cannot even be overemphasized. The thought of knowing you have a database backup is priceless especially when something goes wrong on the site. Many site owners have lost their sites due to a plugin malfunction or an attempted hack. Many have mistakenly wiped all their files from years of hard work. This is heartbreaking to say the least. If only a backup was done. Read more about How to backup database …

5 ways to reset your password
26 Jan
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5 ways to reset your password

Have you ever tried to access your WordPress dashboard, only to realize you have actually forgotten your password? For many, this is a source of worry as if the necessary steps are not taken, they may never get in to their sites again. There is the easy option of password recovery via the WordPress interface which will work most times in normal circumstances. If you forget your password, WordPress has a built in recovery mechanism that uses email to help you get back in to your site.

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Finding your CSS style
23 Jan
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Finding your CSS style

On several occasions, you may notice a certain style or display in your website that needs a little bit of working on. It may be a problem on the layout of a template that needs to be fixed or any other problem. An example of this is the header of your pages displaying a certain undesirable attribute. You know the attribute or style is undesirable and you want to change it. You know the style is on the header, but you just don’t know how to go about finding the header and fixing the problem. You may luckily find the header, but after hours of searching still not find the particular style or any reference to it. This can be discouraging and stressful. Is there an easy way to go about this you may wonder. Yes there is. Read more about Finding your CSS style …