Category: WordPress Tutorials

If you are a blogger then you might be aware of the importance of taking WordPress database backup regularly. Not only database backup, you must also take backup of other files like images and videos of your blog once in a while. This is very essential for every blogger as you may get hacked someday or lose your data for some other reasons.

It is always recommended to take regular backups of your blog to be secure and safer. Recently my blog got hacked and if I had not the backup with me then it could be really difficult for me to recover my blog. read more

One of the best ways to get more exposure and more traffic to your blog posts is via Social Networking Websites. Social Networking Websites can easily boost your traffic. Users will easily share your posts on Social sites like Facebook, Digg, Twitter and StumbleUpon if you add social media buttons to your blog posts.

These days most of the bloggers are adding floating social media buttons to their blog posts. Floating buttons stay on a fixed position even if you scroll down or up the page which gives your blog readers the more flexibility to easily share your posts. read more

In my last post, I posted about Google Buzz, a new social tool by Google. If you are still unaware of Google Buzz, you can read about it here. Famous tech blogs Mashable and TechCrunch already started adding the Google Buzz buttons into their posts. Now you can also add Buzz this button to your WordPress blog.

To make this button work, your Google reader account must be connected with Google Buzz account. If you already have a Google reader account then it must be already connected with your Google Buzz account. read more

Last month when I made TricksDaddy a multi-author blog, one of my contributor reported me that the image uploading feature is not working for him. When I looked into the matter I found that it’s working fine for me and this problem is only with the contributors. If you are going to start a multi-author blog then you may also face this problem. In this tutorial, I’m going to explain how to enable image uploading and other functions for your contributors.

Follow the steps given below: read more

WordPress has the option to display the list of categories in single column only. But if you have a huge list of categories then it would be better to split the list of categories into 2 columns. It will save space in your sidebar and it will not make your page longer in length. A long list of categories can fit in 3 column template but it looks ugly in 2 column template. So if you are using 2 column template then I would recommend you to split your categories into 2 columns using the following method.

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