Facebook has a social plugin that allows to integrate the Facebook Comment box into WordPress blogs. This social plugin enables Facebook users to comment using their Facebook credentials. Below I have listed few pros and cons of the Facebook Comment Box, which might help you decide whether to replace your old comment box with this social plugin or not. Pros: Comments made can be posted on your wall and eventually to your friend’s news feed [...]

Security is one of the most important part of your WordPress blog. You can never know how and when attackers will hit your blog and cause some serious problem. So, you should always have some security to prevent or worse make it difficult for attacks. Security in WordPress can be securing the login, checking for malicious themes, preventing sql injections, checking for malicious links or texts or database vulnerabilities. Fortunately, WordPress has many plugins that [...]

If an user come across an interesting or an informational piece of article, he/she might want to share it to their friends circle or followers. Sharing manually would be a headache and people usually opt not to share at all. So, it is highly recommended for all WordPress admins to add some social sharing options in their websites. To make life easier for them, WordPress has an awesome array of plugins that will make sharing [...]

We all know how bad code snippets look when they viewed in plain text without indentation and color highlighting. WordPress does have a built in ‘<code>’ tag but it is pretty useless. It indents the source codes but does not have any support for programming language recognition and syntax highlighting. Without colors and proper indentation, the code snippets will look very dull and unattractive for readers. To solve this, developers have built their own syntax [...]

WordPress comes with a default log-in page for users. Since the platform is open-source, developers have found ways to customize the default screen. Customizing the log-in page can be easily done with the help of plugins or even better – little tweeks. I have listed few examples, resources and plugins pages to make life easier for those who want to customize their WordPress log-in screens for their websites. Examples – Best of Best WordPress Custom [...]

WordPress’s default editor is great but it certainly has few minor bugs. To list a few, the editor is relatively slow and can sometimes freeze your browser, the image/video uploading isn’t that great: one-at-a-time (time consuming) and slow, we cannot customize the editor according to our need (shortcuts/extensions) etc. If you are not satisfied with the default text editor, there are few others which can used used as a plugin. Here is a list of [...]

WordPress is an open source content management system(CMS) and is also today the ultimate platform for commercial blogging. Millions of blogs are powered by WordPress because of its versatility and flexibility. It has thousands of plugins in its repository, an active community and an excellent documentation which makes it very easy for users to start a new blog commercially. One of wordpress’s excellent feature is the various user levels. By default wordpress has Administrators, Editors, [...]