If you have been a regular reader of this blog then you would have read my post on “displaying code snippets in WordPress posts”. I explained it using a plugin. These days I am focusing on making things happen without any plugin. So again I am invoking this topic but this time we will take different route to achieve similar goal. Most of the programming blogs authors write code in their blog posts. Sometimes browsers interpret those code blocks and as a result they it may end up displaying something weird. Let’s learn how we can display code in posts properly without using any plugin. It would be really beneficial for those who rarely write codes in their  blog. It will improve page load time by avoiding any extra plugin for displaying code correctly. WordPress has <pre> and <code> tags which can be used to make your code look different from normal text.  Further you can style these tags and [...]

I have already written about “How to make money online“. From this post everyone will get ideas about making money. But most of the people are still confused about how to start? So I will explain in details each points how to get your first website online and start making money out of it. So in this post I will focus on helping users set up their own affiliate website and make it a profitable business. Lets start from basics by getting through some questions: 1.What is Affiliate Marketing? In simple words promoting products developed by others and get some commission on every sale. 2.Why Affiliate Marketing? You do not need to worry about development of products or support customers after they purchase the products. Affiliate Marketing is all about promoting others products and selling it using your affiliate links. 3. How much money can you make with Affiliate Marketing? Well, there’s no limit as such. You can make passive [...]

Well we all know WordPress is highly customizable and can be customized up to a great extent. WordPress is also famous for a huge repository of plugins which provides you plugins for everything. Think about any functionality that you want in your WordPress site and either Google it or ask any WordPress expert, you will be answered like “there’s a cool plugin for that”. Using plugin in your WordPress website is the easiest way of adding new functionality. Most of the people use plugins but there are few disadvantages of using plugins like: few heavy plugins may make your website slow, free plugins may contain encrypted code which may harm your website etc. If you don’t want to use these free plugins then you will need to code on your own. Yes customize your WordPress website by coding. In this tutorial I will explain you how you can customize WordPress default comments yourself without using any external plugin: Lets Understand [...]

I have got few questions for my readers, just read the questions and answer each of them in YES or NO. Do you want to make money online? Do you want to setup your own online business? Are you ready to learn new ways to market your services and take your online business to heights? Most important, Are you ready to start working seriously to compete with and move ahead of other businesses? If the answer for these four questions is “YES”, then you are at the right place. This post will be of great help to you. If you are familiar with WordPress then you should read on and feel its power. Power of WordPress WordPress is not just a CMS for blogging but it’s a great platform that can be used to setup great app like websites. Yes, you can use power and flexibility of WordPress to develop your e-commerce website, classified website, directory website, video website or [...]

Is it easy for everyone to start a classified website? The answer is yes. Anyone can setup a fully functional website with ClassiCraft theme. Just install WordPress on your server and then install ClassiCraft theme that’s all. You can have your classified theme online within minutes with this powerful theme. I would suggest you to learn more about ClassiCraft theme and know how it can help you run a successful online classified business. Once you have a well established classified website you can make passive income out of it. I get queries from users that how a classified website makes money? Today I am going to answer that question. Well it depends on what business model they use for earning. As you already know classified websites are places on Internet where people and businesses post their ads either for free or at some charge. So if you have a good classified website then you can surely make good money from [...]

It’s never been so easier to create a fully functional classified website. There are a lot of things that need to be considered for a classified website. After researching various successful classified websites InkThemes developed its own easy-to-use premium WordPress theme for classified websites. Yes ClassiCraft theme lets you create your own classified website in minutes. This post is a guide for all the people who want to develop their own classified website without getting involved in coding and other technical stuffs. Get this premium theme and install it in your WordPress website. After activating the theme, it will ask you to insert some sample data just to ensure you how your website will look like with data, you can delete that sample data at any time.   Now see some cool settings of the theme which lets you easily manage your classified website. Once you install this theme it creates two extra options just below the dashboard option.   [...]

WordPress 3.5 focused more on new enhanced media uploader and as expected it fetched user’s attentions because of its awesomeness. WP3.5 has got one more change; it removed the option of changing media upload directory path from media setting options.   Those Websites which are running on older version of WordPress and have changed default media upload path, after upgrading to WordPress 3.5 they may encounter  some problem with plugins. Now how to keep that change in WordPress 3.5 too? This post will tell you how to simple change the media upload path in version 3.5. Note: Implement this tutorial if you know what you are doing and why are you doing. It’s not for beginners. You have to edit the ‘wp-config.php’ file to change default media upload location. ‘wp-config.php’ file is located in base directory of your WordPress installation. Suppose you want to change your media upload location to ‘wp-content/mynewupload’ then you will have to put the following code [...]

There could be situations when you have to delete your posts or pages after/on a particular date. For example you are running a contest in your website and on timely manner you are adding polls, clues and rules for the contest. It’s obvious that you will not need those clues, polls and rules after a fixed date so you will have to delete the post manually. Similarly if you are publishing coupons and offers in your website then also you will need to delete them when they expire so you need to delete manually. There are many other cases when you want your posts/pages to be deleted/hidden after a particular date. If you have only one or two such posts then it’s ok to delete them manually but what if you have many posts to be deleted on different dates? It would be really irritating, but fortunately you have an option to automate this task by setting expiry date for [...]

I have already discussed about advantages of having your own video website. InkThemes made it really easy to set up a fully functional video website with WordPress.  VideoCraft theme can be considered as a great tool for people willing to create their own video website without getting into coding and other technical stuffs. Yes VideoCraft gives you power to create your own video website in minutes with ease. This post is a guide to show you how easy it is to create and manage video website using VideoCraft theme. View LIVE DEMO of VideoCraft theme. GUIDE FOR WEBSITE OWNERS: I consider you have your fresh WordPress installation on your server, now you have to install and activate VideoCraft theme in your WordPress installation. Once you activate the theme it will automatically add some sample data to your website for testing purpose, you can delete the sample data any time just by visiting the theme page. Till now you have only [...]

Google adsense is the most popular way to earn money online through your website or blog. If you have a blog with decent traffic then Google Adsense is for you to make money by placing ads on your website. There are various factors affecting your earning through ads, important factors are your blog/websites niche, traffic, and where you place your ads in your website. You need to be smart and intelligent in utilizing space of your webpage. Here I am mentioning some good Google Adsense plugins, to integrate Google ads. All plugins have their own capabilities and features to integrate ads on your website. Let’s have a look on these awesome plugins: 1. Quick Adsense: This plugin is good for those who want to insert Adsense or any other Ads codes anywhere into a blog post. This plugin is really very simple and gives you option to integrate and display maximum of 10 ads on a page. This plugin works [...]

Everyone who is new to WordPress comes across a problem that how he/she can control appearance of widgets on his/her website? By default widgets appear in all pages but many people want their widgets to be appeared on some pages. Most of the WordPress users want customization and they want to fully control widget appearance on pages. For example you don’t want search widget to appear on any page except few pages. This is also useful for website visitors because they will see widgets relevant to the pages on which they are. WordPress lovers always have one advantage that they easily get plugins to add any extra functionality they need. Yes fortunately there’s a cool plugin named “Dynamic Widgets”. This plugin lets you control appearance of widget on pages in a simple and straight forward way. To download this plugin Click Here. Install and activate the plugin in your WordPress installation. Now to control on which pages your widgets will [...]

Years before Google launched Google Plus business pages, the concept was to create an online platform for businesses. If you have a local business, product or brand, company or any other thing that you want to promote online you can create a Google Plus business page and make the page popular among your audience by sharing it. Creating your Google plus page is a best way to make your business popular across social web. How you can create your own business page? Google has made it really a simple and straight forward process, just three steps and you will get your own business page. To start creating your business page click here. Once you visit the page you will learn the advantages you will get after creating your Google Plus business page. On the top right corner you will see an option “Create a Google+ Page”. Click it and you will get a screen similar to this: Just three simple [...]

If you have multiple blogs then you know how difficult it is to manage username and passwords of each individual blog/websites. As you cannot set same password for all your  websites because of security issues. Most of the users generally come across the problem of forgetting their passwords. I have seen many people asking how to change password of their WordPress site if traditional method of resetting password via email is not working. Yes there are many cases when you do not receive any email from WordPress to reset your password, it may happens because either you enter wrong email address or some other server side technical issues. Recently I came across a query from an user who says “I have been logout of my website for 2weeks now it will not email me a reset password to my email what can I do?“ Well whatever the case may be, I will tell you a universal solution to reset your [...]

You might already know about many applications and plugins which allow you to be social by sharing your social activities within your WordPress website. Have you ever thought about sharing all your social streams in a single page of your website? If not then its the right time to think and get profit out of it. This should be definitely done in a presentable manner so that visitors can easily see your social activities over various social platforms. Pinterest is will known as an online pin-board, its famous because of its design and presentation. So it could not be better than if you create a pinterest like page where you can share all your social activities together. Aggregating all your social activities gives various advantages to your business, especially if you have a blog. Social media has a major role in every blogs/websites success. For WordPress website owners it’s really easy to create a presentable page with all your social [...]

Press Release: I would simply define Press Release as “An official document to inform people via media about insights of your organization/company”. Why Press Release? Every business owner wants to promote his/her business; press release plays an important role here. Especially for online businesses press release can be considered as a good way to spread news, events and any other information of the business. You can also promote any service or product of your company through press releases. Press release writing is a good way to reach targeted audience and it’s an effective tool for Internet marketing. A well formatted press release contains title (headline), body and contact information of the concerned person. A well written press release focuses on body so that users can easily know the purpose for which it is written. A good press release must have few words by the concerned person of the company. Benefits of Press Release: There are various advantages one may get [...]

You would have seen awesome icons used with Twitter Bootstrap. These icons increase usability as well as contribute in improving your websites reputation. Why not directly use those icons in your WordPress site? It seems good idea, but how? I will tell you the easiest way of using these icons easily in your WordPress website.  As Glyphicons provides a set of cool icons for Twitter Bootstrap. There is another champ which offers 249 icons with just a single font. Font Awesome is an iconic font designed to use with Twitter Bootstrap. Icons are cross browser compatible and also have supports in IE7. Let’s learn how you can use Font Awesome in your website. To use these icons you need to install ‘Font Awesome Icons’ plugin in your WordPress site. Good thing about this plugin is that it doesn’t need Twitter Bootstrap so that you can use it with any WordPress theme. You can see all available icons HERE. To download [...]

I have already posted about features of perfect directory theme. I have got many emails from directory website owners regarding how to encourage peoples to list their business online. This post will answer those questions in a decent manner. This post is for every business directory which is using GeoCraft theme. This post is a guide to normal user that how easily one can list their business online. It’s as good as having online presence of your business.  I suggest every directory website owner to share this post in your website so that your readers can learn how easily they can list their business with your website and get advantages out of that. To add your business in the listing you can register yourself for free in the website. To register your free account all you need is to have a valid email id. Click on any of the options and you will be taken to registration/sign-in page. Registration for [...]

All bloggers usually come across long blog posts to be published in their blogs. It’s good that you are giving detailed information on topic with your huge blog post. But have you ever thought what impression it makes on your visitors? Don’t make your visitors scared by showing them a long post in a single page, they may end up reading your post just once they scroll through out the length of your post. I have got a better solution for you, just think of splitting your long post into multiple pages. Splitting up your long posts into multiple pages will give you other benefits also, it will increase your PAGE VIEWS and of course it’s a nice idea to decrease BOUNCE RATE. Your visitor will read the short length post on the very first page and then they will navigate to the next page if your blogpost is interesting enough. Let’s move further and know how you can also [...]

Have you ever imagined about conditional Menu? Imagine if you want to hide a particular menu from subscribers/authors/Editor/ etc. You can simply do this using a simple but effective plugin name “If-Menu”. Conditional menu comes in use if you really want to put restrictions on visibility of each individual Menu Items. To download this plugin Click Here. Upload this plugin, install it and activate you are done in order to use the functionality of this plugin. This plugin allows you to show/hide your Menu items based on some conditions. Whether it’s a single post, front page or simply a page you can put restrictions by enabling conditional logic. In order to use this plugin simply go to “Menu” tab under “Appearance” from your WordPress dashboard. Select your Menu and you will find each menu item has a “Enable Conditional Logic” check associated with it. Simply check that box and you can select the conditional statement from the drop down list. [...]

I am sure that most of the people who are looking to sell their digital goods online will love this post. If you want to sell your images, pdf files, videos, audio files etc then you can easily do this with a superb free WordPress plugin named “sell media”. This plugin offers you a way to sell, license and protect your digital media. Sell Media is a good option for creative photographers, artsits, content-writers, teachers to organize and sell their content. They can create and choose suitable liscence for their products to sell. If you want to use this plugin in your WordPress site then keep reading. To download this plugin Click Here. Install it in your WordPress site and activate it. After activating you will see “Sell Media” tab just below “Media” option in left panel of your dashboard. First of all go to settings option of this plugin to set some necessary things. After clicking on settings you [...]