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Creating beautiful, unique websites seems to get harder every day. There are so many amazing website designs out there that coming up with something fresh and different is getting close to impossible
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20 Vital Techniques & Best Practices For Effective Web Design
As a web developer, you can broaden your potential client base and add value for existing clients by listing ‘WordPress’ as an area of expertise. WordPress is incredibly versatile, it can be tweaked to add many non traditional features to run a more effective blog. Throughout this article, we’ll be focus on 10 WordPress Theme ideas, tips and useful tutorials you need to have ready in hand when developing your WordPress website to enhance your blog and give it the quality it deserves.
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10 WordPress ‘HOW-TO’ to Give Your Blog the Quality it Deserves
1. What are Regular Expressions The main purpose of regular expressions, also called regex or regexp, is to efficiently search for patterns in a given text . These search patterns are written using a special format which a regular expression parser understands
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Getting Started with PHP Regular Expressions
1. What are Regular Expressions The main purpose of regular expressions, also called regex or regexp, is to efficiently search for patterns in a given text
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PHP Regular Expressions Syntax, Functions & Cheat Sheets
Most business cards tend to be forgotten, which is why they are not effective. Business cards can become great interactive elements with the added ability to have custom shapes, different materials and matte finishing along with a great design idea. In today’s article, we would like to present a collection of 60+ Creative Business Cards ideas that say a lot about a person.
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60+ Unusual Business Card Ideas & Designs
Mod_rewrite is an Apache-based rewrite engine for dynamically rewriting URLs. It’s built into Apache servers natively, though not enabled by default. It’s capable of functions beyond simple rewrites, though, some of which are included below
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10+ Mod_Rewrite Rules You Should Know
What’s in your Cart? Finding the right theme can be a long and arduous process – a process that becomes more important when we’re talking about Shopping Cart or eCommerce themes. There are two big differences between picking a theme for your Dallas-Cowboys-bashing blog and the theme for your custom furniture shop.
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What’s in your Cart? 30+ High-Quality Shopping Cart Templates
As we all know the latest version of WordPress (2.8.4 as I write this post) has been Issued – that every professional WordPress website should consider using. I’ve segmented the plugins into categories in an effort to make the list easier to digest. These plugins are helpful for
If your WordPress pages are slowly loading, WP Super Cache will probably help. This is an absolutely brilliant and extremely useful plugin for anyone interested in increasing the speed at which posts and pages are loaded on their WordPress website.
This plugin has the ability to create static HTML files so that, instead of performing several database queries each time a page is loaded, a page’s information is queried once and then saved as a static HTML file. Basically, the data is cached on the server.
And don’t worry – there is an option within the plugin which allows you to flush the cache each time a post or comment is published.
This plugin is highly recommended.
Author’s WP Super Cache Plugin Page | WP Super Cache on WordPress.org
Does your WordPress website use a lot of images in posts? If so, Amazon S3 for WordPress is something that you should definitely consider using. This plugin sets up a seamless integration between an Amazon S3 account and the file upload component within WordPress. This is a great way to lighten the load on your web server and also cut down on bandwidth usage by allowing Amazon S3 to store your website’s media.
Highly recommended for people who use a lot of images in their posts.
Author’s Amazon S3 for WordPress Plugin Page | Amazon S3 for WordPress on WordPress.org
This is a highly versatile video plugin which has tons of great features. Here is a brief blurb from the plugin website on WordPress.org:
This is not just another video embed tool – it includes every functionality you might need for video and rich-media, including the ability to upload/record/import videos directly to your post, edit and remix content with an online video editor, enable video responses, manage and track your video content, create playlists and much more… And Kaltura covers all hosting and streaming costs for FREE up to 10GB.
In addition, you can upload, record from your webcam, and import all rich-media directly into your blog post.
Bottom line: If you use video for your blog, you should be using this great plugin.
Author’s All in One Video Pack Plugin Page | All in One Video Pack on WordPress.org
There are tons of different SEO plugins available for WordPress. Having tested most of them, All in One SEO Pack gives you the most flexibility and options.
This plugin is highly recommended for anyone concerned about search engine optimization.
Author’s All in One SEO Pack Plugin Page | All in One SEO Pack on WordPress.org
Another extremely useful SEO plugin. This plugin gives you advanced control over the robots meta tag. Robots Meta has a long and detailed options page which allows you to take control over everything from the robots meta tag to nofollow tags.
This plugin is a great tool that can be used to help avoid duplicate content issues, sculpt Google PageRank, and much more.
Definitely worth the install if you’re concerned about fine-tuning your WordPress website’s SEO.
Author’s Robots Meta Plugin Page | Robots Meta on WordPress.org
Another extremely handy WordPress SEO plugin. XML sitemaps are very useful for SEO and for search engine page indexing in general as the sitemap(s) acts as a blueprint for your website’s content, making it easy for the search engines to crawl (and potentially index) all of the quality pages on your WordPress website.
Google XML Sitemaps will automatically generate an XML sitemap in a format supported by Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask. This plugin automatically pings the search engines you specify each time a new post is published.
Another highly recommended SEO plugin. Download it.
Author’s Google XML Sitemaps Plugin Page | Google XML Sitemaps on WordPress.org
This plugin benefits both visitors and search engine spiders.
Visitors don’t need to click through several Previous and Next links to get to the page they are looking for. One or two clicks and the user can easily navigate to the page he/she is looking for.
Search engine spiders can quickly crawl through the pages in your website by using paginated page links. The faster the search engine spiders can crawl through your site, the better.
Increase and amplify the discussion on your WordPress website by giving your visitors the ability to subscribe to a post’s comments. An e-mail will be sent to anyone who subscribes to the post, and it’s just as easy to unsubscribe to the comment notification e-mails as it is to subscribe to them.
By far one of the most popular and most useful WordPress plugins created to date. Get it now!
Author’s Subscribe to Comments Plugin Page | Subscribe to Comments on WordPress.org
Taken directly from the plugin’s page on WordPress.org:
Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.
Make it easy for your visitors, readers, and prospects to contact you. Install this plugin!
Author’s Contact Form 7 Plugin Page | Contact Form 7 on WordPress.org
Another great plugin which allows you to monitor another useful metric on your website – RSS feed subscribers.
Simple and seamless integration between your WordPress website’s RSS feed and your Feedburner account. Simple, effective, and easy to configure.
Author’s FD Feedburner Plugin Plugin Page | FD Feedburner Plugin on WordPress.org
Twitter continues to grow in popularity, so I think it’s safe to assume that it’s here to stay. Twitter for WordPress gives you the ability to easily output your latest tweets on your WordPress website.
Increase your transparency by broadcasting to your visitors what you’re saying on Twitter!
Author’s Twitter for WordPress Plugin Page | Twitter for WordPress on WordPress.org
This plugin is a great all-in-one solution to social media bookmarking and sharing. This plugin has been around for a while, but continues to get better. It’s a very good alternative for people who don’t want to take the time to design their own custom social bookmarking spot before or after their posts.
Tip: Don’t go overboard with the number of bookmarking options you display under your posts. Also, it’s best to only display the Sociable bookmarks on single post pages. Doing so on a page that lists multiple posts looks pretty tacky and unprofessional. Use this plugin sparingly!
A very flexible WordPress advertising plugin. This is an all-in-one solution to advertising within WordPress. No matter what ad network you’re using, chances are this plugin supports it.
Taken directly from this plugin’s page on WordPress.org:
This plugin will manage and rotate your Google Adsense and other ads on your Wordpress blog. It automatically recognizes many ad networks including Google Adsense, AdBrite, Adify, AdGridWork, Adpinion, Adroll, Chitika, Commission Junction, CrispAds, OpenX, ShoppingAds, Yahoo!PN, and WidgetBucks. Unsupported ad networks can be used as well.
Author’s Advertising Manager Plugin Page | Advertising Manager on WordPress.org
Not much needs to be said about Google Analytics for WordPress. It was created by the one-man WordPress plugin machine known as Yoast. It is by far the best Google Analytics WordPress plugin available. The ability to track all outgoing link clicks makes this plugin worth the install for that reason alone.
Author’s Google Analytics for WordPress Plugin Page | Google Analytics for WordPress on WordPress.org
Depending on the nature of your website, this may not be necessary. However, if you plan on executing any PHP code within your WordPress posts or pages, this plugin will make that possible. Highly useful.
Hands down the most aggressively thorough WordPress spam-fighting plugin I’ve ever used. In my opinion, this plugin is superior to the Akismet plugin which comes bundled with WordPress. Unlike Akismet which requires you to obtain a WordPress.com API key before using the plugin, WP-SpamFree works out of the box.
Everyone should have this plugin installed on their website.
Author’s WP-SpamFree Plugin Page | WP-SpamFree on WordPress.org
Per this plugin’s description, WP Security Scan:
Scans your WordPress installation for security vulnerabilities and suggests corrective actions.
And it certainly does as advertised. If the security of your website is important to you, download this plugin (especially if you don’t have a firewall protecting your website).
Author’s WP Security Scan Plugin Page | WP Security Scan on WordPress.org
For WordPress power users (people who publish a high volume of posts/pages, use scheduled posting, rely heavily on categories and tags). This plugin provides a quick and streamlined solution to editing post and page information by eliminating the need to have to click the Edit link each time the user wants to make a change to a post/page’s information.
This plugin will save you a lot of time.
Author’s Admin Management XTended Plugin Page | Admin Management XTended on WordPress.org
If you’re familiar with web development, then you know that your data is stored within a database. In case of a catastrophic failure, corrupted data, or an act of sabotage by a hacker, it’s always a good idea to have a backup of your database information. My company uses a hosting company (Rackspace) which automatically backs up both our files and databases on a daily basis. However, few hosting companies will include this service with their hosting packages unless you pay for it (sometimes they don’t even offer it).
If you can’t get your hosting company to backup your database information, then make sure you have a copy of WP-DB-Backup installed. A database backup should be created every few hours or every few days (depending on how often your WordPress website is updated).
Don’t skip database backups. You will regret it.
Author’s WP-DB-Backup Plugin Page | WP-DB-Backup on WordPress.org
Following on from the infinite carousel, there have been a number of requests asking how to make the scrolling action automatic, so I’ve gone ahead to explain how to achieve this. Watch Watch jQuery Automatic Infinite Carousel screencast (Alternative flash version) QuickTime version is approximately 8Mb, flash version is streaming.
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Automatic Infinite Carousel
The first preview release for jQuery UI 1.8 is out. You can download it here: Download File Downloads Development Bundle: http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/files/jquery-ui-1.8a1.zip Svn Tag: http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/svn/tags/1.8a1/ Changelog See the 1.8a1 Changelog for full details on what’s included in this release
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jQuery UI 1.8a1
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