26May 2014 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

WordPress Twitter Plugin

Web Design & Programming, Web Development Services, WordPress
The microblogging service that started back in 2006 has made an undeniable impact not only in the world of social networking, but on the world in general. Twitter is one of the top social media channels and if you use WordPress, both can be integrated perfectly to maximize your efforts and achieve your goals. The amount of exposure Twitter provides has made it very appealing to both businesses and individuals. With its increasing popularity, there has been a demand to find ways to utilize its potential, especially among WordPress users, and the people have responded with an abundance of Twitter-centric plugins and hacks. Twitter is one of the top social media channels and if you use WordPress, both can be integrated perfectly to maximize your efforts and achieve your goals.…
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16May 2014 by webmaster No Comments

Disabling Trackbacks and Pings on WordPress Posts

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WordPress has a nice feature to receive and send pings/trackbacks from and to other websites. Every Wordpress Website admin receive hundreds of spam trackbacks daily. More than 90% comments having trackbacks and pings showing below our posts. You can disable trackbacks and pings from the Settings » Discussions page, but this option will only provide a way to stop ping or trackback for new posts, and does not change the status on existing posts. For disabling trackbacks on existing WordPress posts You need to run a "MySQL query" listed below. We highly recommend that you backup your database before executing this query. For this you need to login to phpMyAdmin and locate your WordPress database, and go to the SQL tab of phpMyAdmin. And execute the following MySql query: UPDATE…
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15May 2014 by webmaster No Comments
Why Use Bootstrap?

Why Use Bootstrap?

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Bootstrap is the most popular front-end framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web. In 2011, some Twitter employee released Bootstrap which, in their words, is a "front-end framework for faster and easier web development." Bootstrap is a sleek, intuitive, and powerful front-end framework for faster and easier web development, created by Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton, and maintained by the core team with the massive support and involvement of the community. Simple: To the end-user, Bootstrap looks great because it’s simple. Everyone likes design they understand immediately. Bootstrap is more popular than other applications because of it’s simple and easy to use properties. Standardization of HTML syntax: This HTML syntax targeted the most commonly used collection of HTML elements (tables, forms, etc) and got everyone to write…
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02May 2014 by webmaster No Comments

Creating Custom Post Types by PHP code

WordPress
There are two methods by which we can use to create our own custom post types: 1. By Using Plugins 2. By Using hard code into your theme’s functions.php file. "Custom Post Type UI" is a nice plugin that allows you to easily create custom post types as well as taxonomies. This also provides PHP code to create custom post types, so you can use it into your theme’s functions.php file. If you want to use custom post types without a plugin, then just add the following PHP code to your functions.php file: // Creating Videos a Custom Post Type register_post_type('videos', array( 'label' => 'Videos', 'public' => true, 'show_ui' => true, 'capability_type' => 'post', 'hierarchical' => false, 'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'videos'), 'query_var' => true, 'supports' => array( 'title', 'editor',…
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02May 2014 by webmaster No Comments

WordPress permalinks and passing custom Variables to it

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Sometimes we need a simple way of passing a custom variable(s) to WordPress. WordPress has a organised way in this respect as it passes a lot of arguments in URL, so unless you want to grub around directly with the $_GET array, then this solution is a little more elegant. First look at the code: function add_query_vars($aVars) { $aVars[] = "myVar"; // represents the name of the custom variable you want to add in URL return $aVars; } add_filter('query_vars', 'add_query_vars'); function add_rewrite_rules($aRules) { $aNewRules = array('mypage/([^/]+)/?$' => 'index.php?pagename=mypage&myVar=$matches[1]'); $aRules = $aNewRules + $aRules; return $aRules; } add_filter('rewrite_rules_array', 'add_rewrite_rules'); Explanation: function add_query_vars($aVars) { $aVars[] = "myVar"; // represents the name of the custom variable you want to add in URL return $aVars; } add_filter('query_vars', 'add_query_vars'); This function tells wordpress that we…
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29Apr 2014 by webmaster No Comments
Best WordPress Framework to Use?

Best WordPress Framework to Use?

WordPress
WordPress theme developers have created some schemes and processes to make theme development faster and easier. Some develop  an HTML pages first and then develop the WordPress theme of it. This way they have to re-write all codes from HTML to PHP. This time of developing WordPress theme can be reduced by a other way. You can start with the WordPress codes and develop your design around that. This increases the speed of the coding process because you just type in a language that WordPress understands. A Theme Framework is a code library that can be used to speed up the process of Wordpress Theme Development. It can be Another Theme that act as a Starter or a Parent Theme. Theme Frameworks are those tools that make the process of creating WordPress function. A Developer need not to re-write the…
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18Apr 2014 by webmaster No Comments
Creating WordPress Network

Creating WordPress Network

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A multisite network is a collection of websites that all share the same WordPress installation." These websites in a network can also share plugins and themes. The individual websites in the network are virtual websites because they do not have their own directories on your hosting server, although they do have separate directories for media uploads within the shared installation, and they do have separate tables in the database too. WordPress 3.x version have a important feature to create a network of websites by using its multi-site feature. Here We will have all instructions for creating a multisite network for your Wordpress blog. You can create a multisite network in which administrator can add new websites.A multisite network can be very similar to your own personal version of WordPress.com. Step…
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08Apr 2014 by webmaster No Comments

How to Create a Child Theme in WordPress?

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Create a directory in your themes directory to hold the child theme. The theme directory is wp-content/themes. You can name the directory without any space as part of the name, and it is common practice to use the name of the parent theme folder with “-child” appended to it. For example, if you are making a child of the twentyfourteen theme, your folder name would be twentyfourteen-child. In the child theme directory, create a file called style.css. This is the only file required to make a child theme. The style sheet must start with the following lines: [code] /* Theme Name: Twenty Fourteen Child Theme URI: http://example.com/twenty-fourteen-child/ Description: Twenty Fourteen Child Theme Author: John Doe Author URI: http://example.com Template: twentyfourteen Version: 1.0.0 Tags: light, dark, two-columns, right-sidebar, responsive-layout, accessibility-ready Text…
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08Apr 2014 by webmaster No Comments

Why use a WordPress Child Theme?

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A WordPress child theme is a theme that inherits the functionality of another theme, called the parent theme. Child themes allow you to modify, or add to the functionality of that parent theme. A child theme is the safest and easiest way to modify an existing theme, whether you want to make a few tiny changes or extensive changes. Instead of modifying the theme files directly, you can create a child theme and override within. Here are a few reasons: If you modify an existing theme and it is updated, your changes will be lost. With a child theme, you can update the parent theme (which might be important for security or functionality) and still keep your changes. It can speed up development time. It’s a great way to get…
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