Beginner’s Guide to Preventing Blog Content Scraping in WordPress

Posted on May 16th, 2012 by in Beginners Guide | 3 Comments  
Guide to Prevent Content Scraping

If you write original content day in and day out, you already are aware of the fact that your posts will end up on bunch of SPAM sites within a few days sometimes even few minutes. Some users even noted that the site with stolen content outranked the original post. It is very frustrating as a website owner to see that someone is stealing your content without permission, monetizing it, outranking you in SERPs, and stealing your audience. Content Scraping…

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How to Put Your WordPress Site in Read Only State for Site Migrations and Maintenance

Posted on May 14th, 2012 by in WordPress Plugins | 0 Comments  
Read Only Mode

Managing a multi-author blog is a hard task on its own. It gets even harder during the maintenance times and site migrations. We have helped migrate numerous multi-author blogs to different hosting account, and the single biggest challenge was to keep everyone from making any new changes. We had to notify everyone multiple times to make sure that everyone got the memo. Well, recently we discovered a way to put WordPress in a Read-Only state which essentially freezes your entire…

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How to Add Odd/Even Class to Your Post in WordPress Themes

Posted on May 8th, 2012 by in Themes | 2 Comments  
CSS

Often when designing a WordPress theme, designers choose to have different styling for odd/even comments. Recently while working on a design, we decided to have different styling for odd/even posts. To do this, we needed to add an odd/even class to appropriate posts. Sadly, this is not one of the default classes. In this article, we will show you how to add an odd/even class to your posts in WordPress Themes. Simply paste the following code in your theme’s functions.php…

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How To Show Number of Queries and Page Load Time in WordPress

Posted on May 2nd, 2012 by in Tutorials | 1 Comment  
WP Queries

One of our users asked how do other sites show number of queries and page load time in the footer. You will often see this in the footer of sites and it may say something like: “64 queries in 1.248 seconds”. In this article, we will show you how to show number of queries and page load time in WordPress. Simply paste the following code anywhere you like in your theme files (such as footer.php). And refresh the page. You…

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How to Disable Plugin Updates in WordPress and Why You Shouldn’t

Posted on April 30th, 2012 by in WordPress Plugins | 2 Comments  
Disable Plugin Updates

One of our users asked if there was a way to disable plugin updates in WordPress? As we say it in the WordPress community, “there’s a plugin for that”. In this article we will answer the question how to disable plugin updates in WordPress, but we will also discuss why it is not a good idea to disable plugin updates. If you want to disable plugin updates, simply install and activate the plugin Disable WordPress plugin updates. Now lets discuss…

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