Securing WordPress Login page and WP Admin area

WP login.php is the most critical page on a WordPress website. Without it, you will not be able to access the WP-admin area aka the WP dashboard and other users will not be able to register an account with your website. No website owner would ever want a hacker or an intruder to get full access to the WP-admin area. If they do manage to get its access, intruders will delete your website, change admin password or remove all your post/pages. To avoid this, you should secure the WordPress login page by: ...

April 28, 2016 · 3 min · 481 words · prhost78

Fix Error Establishing a Database Connection in WordPress

WordPress saves the post, settings and other data related to your website in an MSQL database. The DB is handled by the user through CMS with a DB management plugin or through a command line terminal from a remote computer (on unmanaged hosting environment). Sometimes, the WordPress PHP files will not be able to connect to the MySQL server, and you’ll be notified of this error when you try to access any page of your website. Today, we’ll share some effective tips to fix this common WordPress problem and avoid it in the future. ...

April 24, 2016 · 3 min · 541 words · prhost78

WP Customer Reviews plugin allows users to rate product or business

Before buying any product from a website or before contacting a business, search engine users will go through the reviews. If the reviews are negative, the user may not communicate with the business or he’ll leave the website without making any purchase. Customers are the best people to judge a product and the best way to get their feedback is by adding a review section to the website. Reviews may help in improving the rankings of a website as it may have many new keywords. ...

April 20, 2016 · 2 min · 403 words · prhost78

Best way to add Google Fonts to WordPress website

The font is one of the most critical elements on a website. Developers make sure that the typography of their website is best in class. If your visitor finds that your site is ugly, he’ll leave it immediately without reading the content or making a purchase. There are 100s of fonts that you can use for free, but you will have to spend a lot of time in searching for them unless you use Google web fonts. ...

March 24, 2016 · 2 min · 406 words · prhost78

Dynamic Widgets plugin lets you control widget display in WordPress

The sidebar is one of the most critical section of a website. It not only helps in improving the revenue of a site by allowing users to place adverts above the fold but also helps in decreasing the bounce rate. On WordPress blogs, you’ll find banners, related/latest/popular post’s widget on the sidebar. The content you add to the sidebar will be visible on all posts. If there are 1000 posts on your website, each and every advertisement or URL you’ll add as a widget will be displayed on each post. You may have grouped your posts in many categories. Suppose there are four categories on your website - phones, laptops, tablets, and desktop. Imagine you’ve published an article on a notebook. ...

March 21, 2016 · 2 min · 358 words · prhost78

Simple 301 WordPress Redirect plugin fixes broken link issues

The Google Search Console tool make us aware of various errors that Google encountered while crawling our website. 404 errors don’t have any impact on the ranking of a website. But if the error is generated because of change in permalink or its structure, you’ll lose traffic from the search engines as well as the social networks. Page Rank will be lost as well. For the best experience of the search bot and user, it is important that we fix the reported error. ...

March 17, 2016 · 2 min · 383 words · prhost78

Contact Form DB plugin : Check mails in WordPress Dashboard

We all know how easy it is to create a contact form page in WordPress. If not, then you might be a newbie who should explore the WordPress plugins repository. A contact form plugin will allow you to create and add a customized form to your WordPress website. The plugin will allow the user to add fields of his choice to the contact form page. WordPress CMS has been built with PHP, the server-side scripting language. PHP includes the mail function that accepts some parameters to send a mail to an email address. The function is implement, and many WordPress plugins are powered it. ...

March 7, 2016 · 3 min · 450 words · prhost78

How to add and customize Facebook feed in WordPress?

Facebook allows the webmasters to add the Facebook comment form, like box or the page feed to their websites. In WordPress CMS, adding a comment form or the like box is easy, but inserting a page feed is usually a tricky task for a webmaster. Even if the user manages to add FB feed to the sidebar, he won’t be able to customize it unless the user knows the working knowledge of CSS. In such cases, the user should use the free custom Facebook feed plugin. ...

March 2, 2016 · 3 min · 487 words · prhost78

Adding WordPress Breadcrumbs navigation and customizing it

WordPress supports taxonomies. In the WP CMS (content management system), the user can create as many tags and categories as they want. A category is different from a tag. It is used to build a menu. If you create a treemap of WordPress structure, then the categories will always be the child of index or root page. They make navigation easier for the search bots and the visitors. On a small blog or a website, the webmaster should create only a few of them. ...

February 26, 2016 · 3 min · 533 words · prhost78

Plugins to add 2 step authentication to WordPress website

Dual factor authentication has become one of the most important security features in the last few years. Major websites like Google Mail, Outlook, Facebook are now protecting user accounts in a better way by allowing them to use a mobile device as their identity. To activate 2 step authentication, the service provider will ask you to install Google Authenticator app (or any of its alternative). Some websites will ask you to verify the mobile phone number so that the authentication service will send a 4 or 5 digit code when required. This code will be used for one-time verification, and it will be valid only for a few hours. ...

February 22, 2016 · 2 min · 426 words · prhost78