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Few days back, the widely used WordPress has hit the web development industry with its much-awaited 3.4 version. The recently arrived WordPress 3.4 version named as "Green" in honor of guitarist Grant Green. The new 3.4 version of WordPress comes with lots of improvements that adding more to the usefulness of the WP. A live theme-customizer, custom backgrounds and headers, better support for internationalization and revamped XML-RPC are some major additions to the new version.

"Security has become a foremost concern on the Web in the past few years. Hackers have always been around, but with the increase in computer literacy and the ease of access to virtually any data, the problem has increased exponentially. It is now rare for a new website to not get comment spam within days of its release, even if it is not promoted at all."

"Recently, reader Luke Knowles asked how to customize the sort order of his posts in WordPress. Looking into a solution to this question proved quite enlightening. Within moments I was able to discern 4 methods for modifying post order, and then several days later I discovered 2 additional custom sorting techniques. After updating the reply to Luke's comment, it seemed like some good information that other WordPressers may find useful. So, here are six ways to customize the sort order of posts in WordPress."

The day is fully dedicated to the news about Automattic's acquisition of WooThemes. WP Daily Themes keeps an eye on the latest updates in our roundup #10.

"Send a 'thank you' email to your blog's commenters. Thank Me Later sends 'thank you' emails to your commenters. Simply write a message saying thanks and it will be emailed after a time of your choice -- 5 minutes, a day, a month, whenever!"

"Protect your WordPress site by hiding vital areas of your site, protecting access to important files, preventing brute-force login attempts, detecting iThemes Security (formerly Better WP Security) gives you over 30+ ways to secure and protect your WordPress site. On average, 30,000 new websites are hacked each day. WordPress sites can be an easy target for attacks because of plugin vulnerabilities, weak passwords and obsolete software."

Ross Goldberg has released his latest tool Internet Marketing Revolution a few days ago and it is generating quite a buzz.

"Hybrid is more than just a WordPress theme. It's about pushing the limits with what WordPress can do. It's a framework. Something you can use to build anything from the smallest family blog to a powerful site that handles thousands of visitors a day." BENEFITS - THE SHORT LIST: * Developed with child themes in mind, so you'll never lose your customizations. * SEO optimized. No need for plugins to handle this anymore. * Theme options that are about content/information. * Templates for everything. * 13 page templates. * Actively developed for WP 2.7 but backward compatible down to 2.5. * 15+ plugins supported within the theme. * Attachment handling like you've never experienced. * Advanced breadcrumbs beyond any other theme. * Ability to run just about any type of site. * And over 20 tutorials to start.

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When your self hosted wordpress site is getting slow, or lots of cpu quota exceeded errors, how do you fix it? One place you need to look is in your main directory (using c-panel's file manager) - find a file called tmp. Inside it, you'll see several folders, one of them is "slow mysql queries". I used cheap shared hosting like most people (blue host, host gator, etc.). Because of that, you will experience problems - especially if you start getting a lot of traffic. What I'm meaning is 500+ individual visitors per day.

Facebook is one of those Web phenomena that impress everyone with numbers. To cite some: about 250 million users are on Facebook, and together they spend more than 5 billion minutes on Facebook… every day. These numbers suggest that we should start thinking about how to use Facebook for blogging or vice versa. We did some research to find out how the integration of Facebook with WordPress and vice versa works, or - in other words - how you can present your WordPress blog on Facebook or use the functionality of Facebook on your WordPress-powered blog. Both of these can be achieved with a set of WordPress plug-ins, a couple of which we'll present here in detail.

When developing Wordpress Templates, we sometimes overlook the small easy things we can do to make our theme much better. When you're days into a project, any project, developing developers tunnel vision isn't hard to do. This article serves not as the ultimate go-to guide for Wordpress shortcodes, but instead it serves to remind us of a few small and easy things we can incorporate into our themes within seconds and they function with robust and flexible ease.

Over the past few days I have come across numerous tools and resources for working with Wordpress. This is one of the benefits of using an Open Source, however on the negative side you see that there is no central management system, neither is there any quality check on them. I hope to provide some

We are almost 10 days away from our favorite Christmas! All the shopping malls and streets in India and Singapore are now filled up with decorations! Have you started to decorate your blog yet? Below you can find more than 200 Christmas icons to use in your blog. Each icon can be used in a unique st

On this page, you'll find all the tools and resources you need to become a successful blogger. If you're new to blogging, you may already know that hiring someone to get you setup can be an expensive ordeal (I've seen clients spend as much as $2,000 just getting a blog installed). With these resources, and our Free 7-Day E-Course, you can do it by yourself for less than $100.

Earlier I would have introduced it this "php code widget" that is a wordpress widget allows you to run php syntax, but i find another decent plugin (Exec-PHP) of wordpress these two days. Although it is also the implementation of php syntax, but its advantage is able to use in the article. if you want to use it in widget, you can fill php code in the text. There is a very simple way to install, just download it into your plugin directory and then extract file and active it so that you can add php code in the article and widget...

Today there are dozens of really great tactics you can use to bring traffic to your website.  The problem is that most marketers are getting caught up in "tactic overload" and not really making the money they want from their efforts. We never had this problem in the old days before social media.  Before there were all these new places for us to market, we were desperate for new channels.  We only had search engines, forums, and subscriber lists at one point.

"The easiest, most effective way to secure WordPress in seconds. iThemes Security (formerly Better WP Security), #1 WordPress Security Plugin iThemes Security (formerly Better WP Security) gives you over 30+ ways to secure and protect your WordPress site. On average, 30,000 new websites are hacked each day. WordPress sites can be an easy target for attacks because of plugin vulnerabilities, weak passwords and obsolete software."

WordPress Development services have become immensely popular these days. The open source WordPress platform allows businesses and individuals to promote products & services on the virtual platform in the most professional & elegant manner.