All posts tagged tutorial

The Ultimate Guide To Guest Blogging – Massive Techniques for Achieving Success

by Sam on May 20, 2010 in Blogging & SEO with 28 Comments

Guest blogging is one of the most powerful practices for making yourself known as a blogger or writer and will seriously push your blog promotion to a higher level. Personally, it has helped me to build some solid relationships with other bloggers, quickly grow my site’s traffic and dedicated readership and granted me the privilege of becoming a writer for one of the most popular blogs on the web, Blogging Pro.

Here is an excellent guide that will show you the great benefits achieved through dedicated guest blogging as well as how to master these golden opportunities. I will start the guide off with some Techniques & How To’s.

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How To Create A Custom Front Page In WordPress

by Sam on May 20, 2010 in Other Tutorials, Tutorials with 24 Comments

WordPress is undeniably one of the most robust and user friendly blogging and content management systems on the web. Although when many persons think of WordPress, they limit this amazing free open source software to blogging, while not realizing that this system is used by lots of top online companies around the world to provide news and other types of products and services. Top names such as CNN, BBC, Flickr and Time. So as bloggers, we don’t need to limit ourselves to the simple blog layout since WordPress provides quite a few options for further customization.

So today, I’ll show you how to create your own custom front page that can serve your visitors as a sales page, introductory page or just about anything you wish.

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5 Additional Extreme Steps to Secure Your WordPress Blog

by Sam on April 11, 2010 in Blogging & SEO, Other Tutorials, Security Tutorials, Tutorials with 13 Comments

You can never be too prepared when it comes to internet security, so I have posted a continuation of my previous post,  10 Simple Steps to Secure & Protect your WordPress Blog, with an additional 5 tips to make it 10 times more difficult for your WordPress site to be compromised by hackers.

Here are 5 additional tips and practices to ensure that your investment of time, energy and money in your blog never goes to waste.

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10 Simple Steps to Secure & Protect your WordPress Blog

by Sam on March 20, 2010 in Blogging & SEO, Other Tutorials, Security Tutorials, Tutorials with 33 Comments

As of the beginning of 2009 there were approximately Secure & Protect WordPress
133 Million blogs online. This is a pretty large market and also the perfect playground for unscrupulous persons who live for spamming, scamming and just creating malicious programs that can seriously compromise and disable unsuspecting sites. As wordpress blog owners, we need to do everything possible to ensure that our sites are never exploited.

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How to Add an About Author Box in Thesis 1.6

by Sam on March 20, 2010 in Thesis Tutorials, Tutorials with 27 Comments

After posting a general tutorial on How to Add Thesis Image
an About Author Box in the Post Footer in WordPress yesterday, my visitor traffic soared and quite a few persons were asking me how to add the author box to the Thesis theme. So since I like to please my readers, here’s a short and easy tutorial on how to get it done.

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How to Add an About Author Bio Box in the Post Footer in WordPress

by Sam on March 19, 2010 in Other Tutorials, Tutorials with 26 Comments

This is a very short tutorial on how to add an About Wordpress Logo
Author Bio Box at the end of your posts just like the one at the end of this post. An author box is very important because it further connects with readers by giving a little background information on the author. I spent 2 days testing different types of plugins for this purpose but could not find any that worked correctly. So I decided to write the code and then this tutorial. Continue reading →

Easily block spammers’ IP using a .htaccess file

by Sam on February 26, 2010 in Other Tutorials, Security Tutorials, Tutorials with 2 Comments

I’ve been going through my website traffic statistics for my blog and noticed some spikes in activity in terms of page hits, that could not be accounted for as legitimate user traffic. So within my webalizer tool (A free tool used to monitor domain traffic and activity) I decided to hunt down the source of this rise in activity. Here I found IP addresses that have accessed my site and found the culprit. This particular IP registered a total of 3,000 hits in one day. I then used a free ‘who is’ online service (Honey Pot Project or Whois.net) to check who owns the IP and I discovered that this is a spammer / scammer. So let’s get to blocking. Continue reading →

How to redirect web pages using a very simple PHP code

by Sam on February 26, 2010 in Other Tutorials, Tutorials with No comments

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This is  a very short and simple tutorial on how to redirect your web pages using a simple php script. You may need to do simple page redirection for quite a few reasons. For example;

1) You’ve change your domain name and the old url no longer exists so when the user types in the old url they seamlessly get redirected to the new one Continue reading →