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Bringing Your WordPress Database To Default Settings

Have you ever found yourself in a situation when you felt like to reset your WordPress database to default settings? Say, for example, you want to move your website from local server to main server, then there will be a need arise to reinitialize your WordPress database back to its default settings. While a lot of people think to do all the things from scratch and ends in reinstalling WordPress, but there is other and better option also available for you. In this article, we are going to discuss about the plugin name WordPress Database Reset. Once you begin using the plugin, you will be able to easily bring your WordPress database to default settings.

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Plugin To Use: WordPress Database Reset

The plugin is a secure and easy way to bring your WordPress database back to its default settings while there will be no need to reinstall the WordPress from the scratch. To install, copy the wp-reset folder and its content to your wp-content/plugins directory, and then activate it while you could also use the built-in Add New plugin feature within WordPress. Once activated, you will automatically be redirected to the plugin page.

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Socialize WordPress Sidebar Widgets With Displaying Your Latest Pinterest Pins

While we discussed earlier the best available Pinterest WordPress plugins, we thought of why not find the one which lets you display all your latest pins in your WordPress sidebar widgets. Moreover, the trend towards opting for Pinterest as one of the most favorite social tool is also on the rise so it does make sense that you too get the one such tool in your website by which you can display all of your pins. Well, in this article, we will discuss a way by which you can display your latest Pinterest pins in your sidebar.

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Plugin To Use: Pinterest RSS Widget

The plugin “Pinterest RSS Widget” lets you put up a widget on your sidebar which fetches the most recent contents of a Pinterest user’s RSS feeds and result in displaying the corresponding thumbnail images. You can also choose to show the description below those images as well as also can set the height and width of the thumbnails to fit your theme. Further, the plugin also gives you the option to show four different sizes of the official “Follow Me On Pinterest” button below the list of your pins.

Installation

  • Upload the folder pinterest-rss-widget and its contents to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory or use the wordpress plugin installer
  • Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  • A new “Pinterest RSS Widget” will be available under Appearance > Widgets, where you can add it to your sidebar and edit all settings of the plugin.

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How To Change Your WordPress Username

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This might sounds crazy at first but many of you do feel the same heat when they end up with nothing but having their WordPress username set as “admin” by default. Although the first time when you install WordPress on your server, WordPress CMS do ask you to set your username but many not known well over the idea that not changing will lead to set “admin” at par as a username. While the “admin” username will also offer a welcome space ground for the hackers, it is highly advisable to set your username something different than “admin” as soon as possible for you. There are two ways by which we can perform the act of changing the username which we are going to discuss in the article.

Method 1

  • Login into your WordPress admin panel using your admin account.
  • Select the”users” area from your dashboard panel, and click on “Add New User”.
  • Fill in the user form and choose “administrator” in the “Role” via drop down menu  while also make sure that the password you select have to be a strong one.
  • When finished, click on “Add New User”.
  • Log in again using your new WordPress admin username.
  • Navigate to the “Users” area.
  • From the users list tick the box of the previous “admin” username and select ”Delete” from the drop-down menu.
  • Next, you will be asked about the articles posted under the previous “admin” username.
  • Select the option “attribute all posts and links to:” and select your new administrator password. When ready click “Confirm Deletion”.
  • Make sure that the “display name” of your admin user is different from the username, especially if the admin user posts any blog articles.

Method 2

  • Login to your cPanel, scroll down to the databases section and click on phpMyAdmin.
  • Select the database in which your blog is hosted in.
  • Click on the table wp_users on the left hand side.
  • Once done click edit on the username that you want to edit.
  • Change the user_login value to whatever you like to have, say, for example you can replace “admin” to “Karan”.
  • Hit the Go button and you are done.
  • Go back to your site and login with your new username.

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How To Divide Your WordPress Posts Into Multiple Pages

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It’s been a quite longer time that we are getting regular inquiries over the question that how one can divide the big, long WordPress posts into multiple pages. So, today to help all you guys, I came up at the point, where I felt that let’s do it. In this article, I will show you how simply and without the use of any plugin you can achieve your aim of dividing your WordPress posts into multiple pages.

Step 1: <!––nextpage––> tag

It is as simple as one can think of. In most of the perfectly coded themes, all you have to do is copy the code <!––nextpage––> and paste it in the place where you want the next page to start. Don’t worry for pagination as it will automatically show up. Also, for a quick note here that you put up the code in the Text view and not in Visual view in your post editor.

Step 2: If Step 1 Doesn’t Works

If in case, the step 1 does not work for you, then just copy and paste the following code in your theme’s single.php file:

<?php wp_link_pages(); ?>

Once you added this, the pagination will start to show up while you can add as many as parameters to it, totally as per your requirement.

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How To Create Great Video Tutorials For A WordPress Blog

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Tutorials are an excellent form of video content that are both informative and useful. Of course if you want to publish tutorials on your WordPress blog then you’re going to have to create them first – which can be a bit of a challenge in its own right.

To get started on the right foot, here is what you should do to create great tutorials:

Start with a set of instructions

The backbone of every good tutorial is a clear set of instructions. Make sure you outline each step in such a way that it can be followed by someone with no experience whatsoever.

Decide how to ‘show’ how each step performed

Essentially your video tutorial should show how the actions in each step can be performed. In some cases that will mean that you will want to record yourself performing the actions using a digital camera, but in others you may find that you will need to use screen capture or some other method to do so.

Script the voiceover narration

Typically video tutorials are accompanied by a voiceover narration – and you will want to script yours out in advance so that it is clear and uninterrupted. Keep in mind that the timing of the voiceover narration should coincide with the actions in the video itself.

Record more than one take if necessary

Once you do start recording the footage for your tutorial, be sure to record more than one take if necessary. Later when you are editing and compiling the tutorial you can discard what you don’t need, but as a rule of thumb it is always best to have extra footage in case you need it.

If you do decide to create a video tutorial by recording your screen you should give Movavi Screen Capture Studio a try. It is a complete training video software that will let you record as well as edit videos quickly and effectively.

In short you will have everything necessary to create video tutorials. When it comes to recording the tutorial Movavi Screen Capture Studio will let you dictate the parameters such as the region that you want to capture, audio source, framerate, and so on. After that its other features will let you cut and combine video segments, apply special effects, enhance the video quality, add voiceover narrations, and much more.

Although you may not be experienced creating or editing videos, Movavi Screen Capture Studio will make it all seem like a piece of cake due to its intuitive approach. Just try it out and you’ll soon see how simple it is to create video tutorials for your WordPress blog.

Adding Google Maps In Your WordPress Blog

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If you are professional of any kind or running a business or having offices at one-to-many locations, then you do wish to have your location represented by proper Google Maps. Google Maps brings huge interactivity on board which help your visitors to find locations easily. Adding a Google Maps is an easy process but just like others, it comes with condition applies i.e. you do know well that how to have it installed properly.

Adding Google Maps Manually

  1. Go to Google Maps website, and simply type in the address of the location which you want to show or search for a location.
  2. Once you have the location with you, click on the link button in the right hand panel.
  3. Doing this, it will show you the embed code.
  4. You can either copy the iframe code or can also click on the “Customize and preview the embedded map” to further customize the appearance of the map.
  5. Once done, go to your WordPress blog and paste the code in a post, page or a template.

Suggested ReadingBest WordPress Google Maps Plugins

Adding Google Maps Via A Plugin

While adding Google Maps manually is a simple process to do, but still if you think it can’t be possible for you to do, then will suggest you to consider on choosing any of the plugin available out there for the purpose which will ease the job for you. You can check the whole best free Google Maps plugins list via the link here (we covered it earlier in different article).

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Very Useful 10 WordPress Hacks

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Whether it’s WordPress hosting providers, designers, developers and lots other who have been involved with WordPress, every new day, a different useful hack will make a day for all. But what essential, does the hack is just like normal sting of lines or something more. Possibilities are many – really much and more – but unless and until one got the right one at place, nothing makes a complete sense. In this article to bridge the gap, I have collected 10 of very useful WordPress hacks.

#1 How to insert ads every two posts in WordPress

It is said that ads inserted on the content perform better than those on sidebars or footers. Let’s see a quick and easy technique for WordPress to display ads every two posts.

In order to do this, we need to initialize a variable before entering The Loop and, during the iteration through the posts, test if its value is even. We will use the Modulus operator %, which in an operation

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#2 Easily navigate pages on your dashboard

If like me you use WordPress as much as a content management system then this plugin will place a widget on your dashboard that lets you navigate through your pages as though it was windows explorer.

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#3 How To Add A Google Buzz Share Button

In this simple tutorial, we will teach you how to integrate Google Buzz button which opens in same window and has a close button too at top right hand side. This also picks the post excerpt automatically.

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#4 How To Display Twitter counter in Text

Display Twitter Counter in Text is easily in WordPress with PHP code, all need to do just write down some PHP Script in our wordpress theme, we can write it on sidebar.php, footer.php, header.php or whatever we want to put on.

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#5 Using a WordPress Page as Your Home Page

It’s not only possible it’s relatively easy. The first step is to create a page to serve as your new home page. For the purpose of this example, we’ll call it “My New Home Page.”

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#6 Show Adsense Only to Search Engine Visitors

As we all know that regular visitors don’t click on ads, around 90% folks who click on ads are coming from search engines.

Also for fact that Google pays more if your click-through rate (CTR) is higher, Google’s “smart pricing.” Being smart priced means that your click-through rate (CTR) is low and the money you earn per click is divided by between 2 and 10. For example, if a click would normally earn you $1.00, with smart pricing it could earn you as little as $0.10. Painful, isn’t it? Happily, this solution displays your AdSense ads to search engine visitors only, which means more clicks and a higher CTR.

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#7 Image Decoration and Optimization Tutorial in WordPress

The reason in-post image decoration is important is because many WordPress sites have large collections of images, but they lack simple image size handling and other basic functionality. We’ve all seen blogs where the images overlap with text, or expand beyond the border of the design.

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#8 Show Category Images

I’m going to show you how to add some simple PHP code to your WordPress template and make linked images appear instead of text for your categories in posts. All you need to know is simple PHP, some basic HTML, and how to make your own graphics.

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#9 RSS Footer

This very simple plugin let’s you add an extra line of content to articles in your feed, defaulting to “Post from: ” and then a link back to your blog

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#10 A better WordPress tag cloud

A bit of copy & paste code that will make your WordPress tag clouds better looking and better performing.

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