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On April 2, 2021

In Plugins

If you are having trouble keeping your WordPress website safe, then there is the WordPress Security Plugin by ThreatPress for you. This plugin is light weight, but at the same time it is one of the most powerful tools when it comes to securing WordPress sites.

To add extra armour to your site, this plugin comes with accessibility to ThreatPress Database and ThreatPress Scanner. These two plugins are responsible in making the WordPress security plugin light weight and lightning fast. With the aid of these resources the Security plugin uses minimum server resources, works at supersonic speed and is light weight.

Here are a few things that you will be able to do with the ThreatPress Plugin

Check your WordPress site, plugins and themes against the ThreatPress Database for any inconsistencies. You can command manual checks and set periodic checks as well.
Apart from that, the ThreatPress Site Scan will scan your site status against several databases including like Google Safe Browsing, Phishtank, Malware Domain List and Spamhaus-ZEN.
The plugin checks the integrity of your site core by checking all core files of any installation. This thorough policing does not allow any malware to go undetected in any WordPress file.
With all these options available, you can still command them manually rescheduling any test again. Apart from that the Security plugin also gives you a lockout function that helps you to secure your site from sheer brute force as well as vicious password picking attacks.

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Excellent Logos Examples To Choose From

On March 26, 2021

In Graphics, Showcase

What defines your company at first stage? Answer is your logo. As logo lets people understand and experience at some that what your offering is of all about. Say for example if you logo contains a burger imprint, then it is very likely that you are running a food joint or some restaurant or something related to food industry. Well like this to ease your job in finding the best logo for your offering, here in this article, we have showcased some of excellent logos examples for you.

Poczekalnia by FLOV Creative Agency

Logo – Lapushki (Shoe Brand) by marcciatti

Ben by BananaStone

Og by sgtnikon

Healthy Burger by Locked

Rive radio logo design by Alex Tass

Hawk by ImHashtag

Illusion by ImHashtag

Texture Examples For Your Inspiration

On March 19, 2021

In Graphics, Showcase

Here in this article, we are showcasing the excellent texture examples for you. Hope you like the collection.

Texture 2 by skythecat

Texture 17 by Texturized

Texture by ChOkRi-AchRaF

Texture 01 by panna-acida

Texture by EK-StockPhotos

texture by butterflycollector

Texture 13 by JadedReality

Texture by SaphiraNirnaeth

Texture by skythecat

Best WordPress Slideshows Plugins

On March 12, 2021

In Plugins

Here in this article, we are showcasing the amazing WordPress slideshows plugins for you. Hope you like the collection.

Easing Slider

The plugin is an easy to use slider plugin. Simple and lightweight, is makes creating beautiful WordPress sliders a breeze.

WOW Slider

The plugin add beautiful image slider to your WordPress blog! It brings in awesome effects, fancy templates, point-and-click wizard. It is fully responsive in nature with pure CSS fallback onboard.

Responsive Lightbox by dFactory

The plugin allows users to view larger versions of images and galleries in a lightbox (overlay) effect optimized for mobile devices.

Responsive Photo Gallery

The plugin is based on bootstrap framework. You can add unlimited images on your blog site.

Easy Media Gallery

The plugin is the best gallery plugin for WordPress designed to display various media such as grid gallery, galleries, photo albums, multiple photo albums, photo gallery or image gallery/photo slider, photo gallery with pagination, image slider, image carousel, portfolio, Google maps and Google street view, Google business view, YouTube, video, mp4 video, audio mp3 with very ease, fancy and elegant.

Slider WD

The plugin is a great tool for creating responsive sliders. It uses various transition effects.

Grand Flagallery

The plugin is a powerful media and image gallery plugin. It offers an easy interface for handling photos, image galleries, audio and video galleries.

Tribulant Slideshow Gallery

The plugin feature content in beautiful and fast JavaScript powered slideshow gallery showcases on your WordPress website.

Creative Image Slider

The plugin is a responsive jQuery image slider with amazing visual effects.

Jellyfish backdrop

The plugin will let you easily create full screen image backgrounds and fading slideshows that stretch and adapt to the size of your page.

Sponsors Slideshow Widget

The plugin display a certain link category with images as slide show.

Video Gallery

The plugin was created and specifically designed to show your video files in unusual splendid ways.

oQey Gallery

The plugin is a Photo Slideshow Plugin for WordPress with Video and Music capabilities, that works great for any HTML5 supported device (like iPhone, iPad, iPod etc.) as well as browsers that do not support HTML5.

Soliloquy Lite

The plugin allows you to create an infinite number of responsive WordPress sliders with an infinite number of images in each slider with a few clicks of the mouse.

Textures In Website Designs For Your Inspiration

On March 5, 2021

In Graphics

Here in this article, we have showcased the best website designs texture for your inspiration. Hope you like the list.

The Farmer & Chef

Old Town Spice

Ready To Inspire

Artifact Coffee

Jarritos

Bel 50

The Kettle

Adding/Removing User Roles Capabilities In WordPress

On February 23, 2021

In Plugins, Tutorials

WordPress – the content management system or actually a simple but powerful content management system which powers approximately 20% of the websites over the web. But do you know that WordPress offers each of users’ a capabilities based on the role they have been assigned onto. Whether it will be an administrator, author, subscriber etc, each got its own set of roles.

Say, for example administrator got the ability to perform all actions on your WordPress site whereas author got fewer capabilities to perform the actions and so on for subscribers. It would be must to have an active understanding on and while assigning role to each. If you are running a multi-author site, then there will an additional need arise say if you want to modify capabilities of certain users or create custom user roles for some.

Understanding the different stances that each of the users has got its own level of permissions which allow it to perform certain tasks on the website. It is on you as an administrator to decide which role to be given to whom, or either to take some or all the capabilities from the user. In this article we will discuss on how to add or remove user roles capabilities in WordPress.

To start with you need to first install and activate the plugin name Capability Manager Enhanced. Once activated, the plugin will provide a simple way to manage WordPress roles and capabilities. With using the plugin you will be able to easily create and manage roles and capabilities.

Moreover, if in case something went wrong, the plugin comes with an additional tool: Backup/Restore tool which lets you save roles and capabilities before making changes and reverting them if something goes wrong.

Plugin In Use: Capability Manager Enhanced

A simple way to manage WordPress roles and capabilities. With this plugin you will be able to easily create and manage roles and capabilities.

Features:

Manage role capabilities.
Create new roles or delete existing ones.
Add new capabilities to any existing role.
Backup and restore Roles and Capabilities to revert your last changes.
Revert Roles and Capabilities to WordPress defaults.

How To Change The File Permissions In WordPress?

On February 16, 2021

In Tutorials

You often wondered that how to restrict the person to read, write, modify or access your WordPress filesystems. There are different files and directories which each have their own set of permissions specifying on who and what can hold what rights. The role counted as more important in WordPress because one may need to access to write to files in WP-Content directory in order to enable certain functions.

Permission Modes 755 and 744

It is always better to understand permission modes first before going deeper into the process. Although the permission modes range 0000 to 0777, but permission modes 755 and 744 are the most important. The permission mode is computed by adding up the values for the user, the file group and for everyone else, making you understands well that what the permission mode in actual signifies:

Read 4 – Allowed to read files
Write 2 – Allowed to write/modify files
eXecute1 – Read/write/delete/modify/directory

Changing Permission Using an FTP Client

The file transfer protocol allows you to set permissions – termed as chmod or set permissions in the program menu – for both files and directories on your remote host. There are two files in a WordPress install which you will probably want to alter are the index page and the CSS controlling the layout.

To do the changes you need to do it in your theme’s index.php file while remember here that the process is same for any file.
Now, notice on the last column – you will notice something like saying –rw-r-r- and similar – this represents permissions.
Right click on the “index.php” file and select “File Permissions” will open up window for you from where you can change the permission.
Doing above, a popup screen will appear.
Now, just delete the ‘Numeric value:’ and enter the number you need while don’t worry about the check boxes. Once done, click OK and you are done.

Changing Permission Using The Command Line

If in case you are having shell/SSH access to your hosting account, then you can use chmod to change file permissions although remember here that the method is mainly best for experienced users only.
Only two steps will lead towards making all the files in your WP-Content directory writable, but it’s still advisable to opt for safer alternative as doing one step wrong will take your whole site offline.
Try to modify just the directory – each of these commands first but if in case it does not work, and then go for recursive, which may make your themes files also writable. This can be done by replacing DIR with the folder you want to write in.
If those all fails, try them again in order with replacing –v with –R.

Photo Credit: Flickr/wiredforlego

Create Your Website Today With Visual Composer

On February 9, 2021

In Showcase

Introduction

Over the years, WordPress has been known as an effective, user-friendly platform with lots of functionality, and benefits. WordPress gives you the option to customize your website in a simple and efficient manner. But working with WordPress can be a bit challenging most especially for beginners who aren’t so proficient in coding, and for seasoned pros who may find the custom WordPress editor a bit too simple. Thus, the combination of these reasons is what has brought the need for website and page builders into the market.

These website builders or editors usually come in as Plugins and are built into some of the popular themes. The standard website builders are drag & drop builders that provide you with a simple to use editing interface with different degree of functionality, features, and performance. Of all the drag drop website and page builder’s plugin, Visual Composer is one of the most sought-after, and highly popular. We’ve created this review guide to see what Visual Composer is all about.

What is Visual Composer?

Visual Composer is a drag & drop WordPress website/page builder plugin, which assists professional or beginners to create their site in an efficient, and fast way. It provides a responsive user interface that allows for the creation and designing of professional websites, through the dragging, and dropping of elements, and contents. The plugin has pre-designed templates and compelling design options that serve as a great place to create aesthetic layouts, pages, and websites. Visual Composer is available as a free and premium plugin.

Features

Visual Composer objective is to help you design pages and website on WordPress is an easy and efficient way. It doesn’t matter if you are a professional website developer or you are just getting started, the WordPress plugin is suited to each skill level. Even if you, not an expert web developer, you can make a well-functioning website with it.

Visual Composer comes with frontend editor that make website creation, and management easy. With Visual Composer, you can modify content on the frontend, or backend, and this something closer competitors do not possess.

It also comes with an extensive collection of content elements as well as advanced design options. Also, websites that you make with Visual Composer are automatically mobile friendly.

Finally, Visual Composer works very well with WordPress themes. This allows you the freedom to switch between WordPress themes without having any fear that you might lose some of your contents.

Pricing

As earlier mentioned, in this guide, the Visual Composer comes in two pricing options; free and premium. Visual Composer offers a tremendous value for money, and it is an easy to use WordPress Plug-in with various degree of functionality.

Although limited, the free version offers lots of useful features, can help you get started with Visual Composer, most especially for beginners. The free version of Visual Composer comes with the standard drag and drop editor, and also a broad array of library elements. You will even notice that there are already pre-built templates available in the free version. That’s not all; vital editor features are also available to users when using the free option.

On the other hand, premium Visual Composer comes in three different licensing versions, with each having roughly similar features and options. The significant difference between each of the three-licensing option is the number of sites you can use the plugin on, and the ability to edit and alter the sidebar, footer, and header of the website. One site comes at $59, three sites at $149, and for unlimited sites $349.

All license gives you access to one year of updates and support, but the good news is that you will still have access to the site even the license expires, although you won’t have access to some general updates.

Support

Despite the fact that Visual Composer has been in works for lots of years now, the plugin has always benefited from regular updates. As one of the leading plugins on WordPress, Visual Composer has had active support for years.

There is no much worry about how to make use of the plugin. The official website of the plugin has a good knowledge base that provides sufficient information on how to utilize the plugin. There is also a support system with dedicated developers waiting to answer users’ queries.

General impressions

Visual Composer is easy to utilize. Despite the fact it offers lots of features, it is ease of operation is still very much impressive. Although the editor needs a bit of getting used to due to the fact it is packed with lots of icons instead of labels, it doesn’t really affect content creation. It is worth saying that the large array of customization, function, and elements available, makes Visual Composer an efficient option to design your website.

Conclusion

On a final note, Visual Composer does maintain its status as an efficient WordPress plugin. It gives a responsive, flexible, and robust editing experience that you are guaranteed by default on your site. The cool thing about Visual Composer is it’s easy to use interface that makes editing simple, allowing anyone to create even the most complex of features and layouts.

Visual Composer is an efficient plugin that is handy and can be of great use to WordPress experts or newbies. It is simple and easy enough for newbies, and at the same time comes with lots of advanced features and functionality for seasoned developers as well. If you are looking for a way to better manage how your contents work, and look, then see the free version of Visual Composer, to get an idea of what is in store for you.

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