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Reduce spam by using .htaccess
Adding the following shortcode will let you reduce spam on your WordPress blog by using .htaccess. Simply paste the following lines into your .htaccess file but also make a note that you do make a backup of your .htaccess file before editing it.
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<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .wp-comments-post\.php* RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*yourdomainname.* [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$ RewriteRule (.*) ^http://%{REMOTE_ADDR}/$ [R=301,L] </IfModule> |
Source: AllGuru.net
Display a thumbnail of any website
Simply paste the code below into your functions.php file.
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function gk_snap($atts, $content = null) { extract(shortcode_atts(array( "snap" => 'http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/', "url" => 'http://www.geekeries.fr', "alt" => 'Mon image', "w" => '400', // largeur "h" => '300' // hauteur ), $atts)); $img = '<img src="' . $snap . '' . urlencode($url) . '?w=' . $w . '&h=' . $h . '" alt="' . $alt . '"/>'; return $img; } add_shortcode("snap", "gk_snap");unction gk_snap($atts, $content = null) { extract(shortcode_atts(array( "snap" => 'http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/', "url" => 'http://www.geekeries.fr', "alt" => 'Mon image', "w" => '400', // largeur "h" => '300' // hauteur ), $atts)); $img = '<img src="' . $snap . '' . urlencode($url) . '?w=' . $w . '&h=' . $h . '" alt="' . $alt . '"/>'; return $img; } add_shortcode("snap", "gk_snap"); |
Once done, you can use the snap shortcode:
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[snap url="http://www.geekeries.fr/publicites/" alt="Ma description" w="400" h="300"] |
Source: Geekeries.fr
Easily remove weird characters from your WordPress database
The shortcode will remove the weird characters from your WordPress database. All you have to do is simply run the following SQL query on your nWordPress database via the command line client or PhpMyAdmin.
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UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content, '“', '“'); UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content, 'â€', '”'); UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content, '’', '’'); UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content, '‘', '‘'); UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content, '—', '–'); UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content, '–', '—'); UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content, '•', '-'); UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content, '…', '…'); UPDATE wp_comments SET comment_content = REPLACE(comment_content, '“', '“'); UPDATE wp_comments SET comment_content = REPLACE(comment_content, 'â€', '”'); UPDATE wp_comments SET comment_content = REPLACE(comment_content, '’', '’'); UPDATE wp_comments SET comment_content = REPLACE(comment_content, '‘', '‘'); UPDATE wp_comments SET comment_content = REPLACE(comment_content, '—', '–'); UPDATE wp_comments SET comment_content = REPLACE(comment_content, '–', '—'); UPDATE wp_comments SET comment_content = REPLACE(comment_content, '•', '-'); UPDATE wp_comments SET comment_content = REPLACE(comment_content, '…', '…'); |
Source: Jeff Starr
How to change WordPress editor font
Adding the following shortcode to your functions.php file will let you change the default WordPress editor font.
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add_action( 'admin_head-post.php', 'devpress_fix_html_editor_font' ); add_action( 'admin_head-post-new.php', 'devpress_fix_html_editor_font' ); function devpress_fix_html_editor_font() { ?> <style type="text/css">#editorcontainer #content, #wp_mce_fullscreen { font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", "Bitstream Charter", Times, serif; }</style> <?php } |
Source: DevPress
Removing the “read more” jump
Adding the shortcode into your functions.php file will remove the “read more” link from your blog which will automatically takes you to the article page.
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function wdc_no_more_jumping($post) { return '<a href="'.get_permalink($post->ID).'" class="read-more">'.'Continue Reading'.'</a>'; } add_filter('excerpt_more', 'wdc_no_more_jumping'); |
Source: Alex Denning
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YouTube is a fantastic video website, use to watch and share videos on web. But, it will be better, if having YouTube videos embed on your WordPress blog. While there are number of plugins available which makes a fit for you to use YouTube plugin for your WordPress blog but the best bet is the one from which you can choose from. In this article, I have showcased the best WordPress YouTube plugins available which I believe will be the right fit for your blog.
While I talked about different membership plugins (both free and premium) in the past also, but thanks to our readers’ demand, here in this article, we have rounded up the best WordPress profile plugins for you. Hope you like the collection.
Advanced Author Bio
The plugin automatically adds a short author bio box along with gravatar and social profile links in every single post of your blog.
User
Frame brushes always win hearts, then no matter whether it would be of new style or old. Here in this article, we have rounded up the best of free available frame brushes for you. Hope you like the selection.
Decorative Frame Brushes
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Fancy Frames
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6 Frames Brushes
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Frames
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Round Frames
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Free Grunge Frame Brushes
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Security plays an important role for one’s site. Whether you are running a whole new website or you are running a decade old website, it needs to be secure at first. Well here in this article, we have rounded up the best of WordPress security plugins which you can opt for using it out in your website.
WP Security Audit Log
The plugin keeps a WordPress audit log of all users’ changes and other under the hood activity.
6Scan Security
The plugin provides comprehensive enterprise-grade security with frequent site scans, powerful firewall, automatic backup, web analytics and much more.
iThemes Security (formerly Better WP Security)
The plugin is the easiest, most effective way to secure WordPress in seconds.
All In One WP Security & Firewall
The plugin is a comprehensive, user-friendly, all in one WordPress security and firewall plugin for your site.
Sucuri Security – Website Firewall (CloudProxy)
The plugin is a subscription based WAF and Cloud-based IPS designed to provide optimal security to everyday website.
Acunetix WP Security
The plugin scans your WordPress installation for security vulnerabilities.
Acunetix Secure WordPress
The plugin scans your WordPress installation for security vulnerabilities.
Centrora Security
The plugin protects your WordPress site with Centrora Security. It also recommended for multiple sites security management.
Wordfence Security
The plugin is a free enterprise class security and performance plugin which makes your site up to 50 times faster as well as more secure.
BulletProof Security
The plugin is an effective, reliable, easy to use which protects your website very well.
Sucuri Security – Auditing, Malware Scanner and Security Hardening
The plugin is a security toolset for security integrity monitoring, malware detection and security hardening.
Login Security Solution
The plugin locks down login security for multisite and regular WordPress installations.
Here in this article, we have showcased the WordPress Flickr plugins collection.
Flickr Album Gallery
The plugin is an awesome gallery plugin to display your Flickr Albums on your WordPress blog.
Awesome Flickr Gallery
The plugin creates a photo gallery of your Flickr photos on your WordPress enabled Website enabling you to customize it the way you like it.
Slickr Flickr
The plugin display your photos either as a gallery, a galleria or an unbranded slideshow in posts, pages, and sidebar widgets.
Flickr
Running a website and not backing up your website is one of most vulnerable thing you are doing with your website. It is always very much important for everyone who is running up the website to have the best backup plugin onboard. Here we have collected the best of WordPress backup plugins which you consider on opting for your website.
Backup
The plugin lets you create manual or scheduled fully customized backups on FTP, Dropbox and others.
Online Backup for WordPress
The plugin allows you to easily backup your WordPress site with encryption locally, to email, or free 100 MB secure online storage.
myRepono WordPress Backup Plugin
The plugin automate your WordPress, website & database backups using the myRepono remote website backup service.
BackWPup Free – WordPress Backup Plugin
The plugin lets you schedule complete automatic backups of your WordPress installation.
WordPress Backup to Dropbox
The plugin has been created to give you peace of mind that your blog is backed up on a regular basis.
blogVault Real-time Backup
The plugin is the most reliable way to perform WordPress backup for your site. It is the easiest way to backup, restore or migrates your sites.
Backup Scheduler
The plugin lets you plan the backup of your entire website (folders, files and/or database).
UpdraftPlus Backup and Restoration
The plugin simplifies backups (and restoration). Backup into the cloud (Amazon S3 (or compatible), Dropbox, Google Drive, Rackspace Cloud, DreamObjects, FTP, SFTP, SCP, WebDAV, OpenStack Swift and email) and restore with a single click. Backups of files and database can have separate schedules.
Simple Backup
The plugin lets you backup and download your WordPress website and MySQL Database.
WP Database Backup
The plugin helps you to create Database Backup and Restore Database Backup easily on single click.
WP-DB-Backup
The plugin allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database tables. You may also backup other tables in the same database.
XCloner – Backup and Restore
The plugin is a full backup and restore plugin for WordPress; it will backup and restore both files and database.
Love for Google is something that will be a never ending process so as that of the fonts Google offered. In the same way, fonts play an important role in your WordPress blog while if in case you didn’t know about Google Fonts, then you will get a smile over learning that Google has a library of about 300 webfonts which you can use on your WordPress site or blog. These fonts will load quickly as they are hosted on Google’s servers while with having an open source nature; you are completely free to use them the way you want to. In this article, we are going to share about a plugin name Supreme Google webfonts by which you can easily add these Google fonts in your WordPress post editor.
Plugin To Use: Supreme Google Webfonts
The plugin will add all 291 Google webfonts into your visual editor panel when creating posts or pages. As soon as you installed and activated the plugin, you will notice an extra column at the top with a drop down list for choosing fonts to your post editor while if you are using a WordPress multisite, the plugin can be get added on all of your blogs.
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