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These tutorials are a method of transferring knowledge and may be used as a part of a learning process. More interactive and specific than a book or a lecture; a tutorial seeks to teach by example and supply the information to complete a certain task.
Tutorials – 18 Useful Tricks To Speed Up WordPress & Boost Performance
WordPress is a good CMS solution and even better blogging platform, but most sites using WordPress are not maximizing its potential. Performance is one of the important factor of a successful website. In this article we have compiled a list of useful tips, tricks,...
Tutorials – Display Feedburner Subscriber Count as Text in WordPress
You probably have seen blogs that are displaying FeedBurner Subscriber count as text instead of that annoying chicklet. The ability to display the subscriber count gives you a lot of control over styling and make the count work with your design. Therefore in this...
Tutorials – Protect Your Admin folder in WordPress by Limiting Access in .htaccess
As we mentioned while using WordPress 2.8.3, our site was attacked in an attempt to hack into our WP-Admin folder. Thankfully WordPress has found the bug and released a security patch in WordPress 2.8.4, but this attack made us take extra security measures with our...
Tutorials – Display the Comment Stats on Your Advertising Page in WordPress
We can see the number of comments made in our dashboard, but our advertisers cannot see that. If you have a page for advertisers, you want to add this number to give them one more reason to buy advertisement on your site. Specially when you are selling ads towards the...
Tutorials – How to Create a Photo Album Gallery in WordPress without a plugin
In the past, we have shown you how to add a gallery in WordPress with a lightbox effect. That article only covers the surface of the WordPress functionality. Recently, we had a client that wanted us to create a photo gallery organized by monthly albums. They wanted...
Tutorials – How to Create Additional Image Sizes in WordPress
Last month there was a huge vulnerability spotted in a famous image resizing script known as TimThumb. Since then the community has collaborated and fixed the issues. While TimThumb is a viable option, we believe that WordPress theme developers should focus on using...
Tutorials – How to Add Authors’ Images to your WordPress Blog
Have you ever wished you could display the photos of your site’s authors (i.e. their avatars) in a more creative way, such as showing the author’s avatar right beside the headline of each post? Well, you can. It’s actually not that hard. It just takes placing a few...
Tutorials – The Complete Guide To Custom Post Types
WordPress has been gaining a foothold in the general content management system (CMS) game for a few years now, but the real breakthrough was the custom post type mechanism which allows for the creation of a wide variety of content. Let’s take a look at how this came...
Tutorials – How to Make a Featured Post Carousel for WordPress
It’s becoming more and more common for blogs to feature certain posts at the top of the page. In this tutorial, we’re going to show you how to implement this in WordPress. We’ll be using the default theme, Kubrik, as our base theme, but it should be adaptable to most...