WordPress has come a long way from the boring old 2.0+ version to the much more optimized and streamlined version you see today. With the 4.0 update, WordPress greatly improved the media experience for users, along with other performance improvements. WordPress continues its rapid stream of updates, and has announced that WordPress 4.1 is now available. It boasts of many new features.

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10 amazing WordPress themes

When it comes to developing/customizing a website, the landing page is one the most important aspects as it is the first thing a visitor sees and can make or break your website. It can be very powerful when used properly. Most webmasters/bloggers take the pop-up approach with landing pages. But if you're creative and ready to go the extra mile, you could look into video/animated backgrounds or your websites, as they can help you better tell your story.

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Responsive design


The trend of using mobile devices to search for content online is steadily on the rise, and gaining momentum. The focus is now centering more towards responsiveness and adaptability, which means that more content needs to be optimized for mobile devices. Re-developing an entire site to make it responsive can be a major pain. But if you run WordPress, there are various plugins options you can try to make your website responsive.

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WordPress 4.0 open Beta 1


WordPress has come a long way from the boring old 2.0+ version to the much more optimized and streamlined version you see today. With the 3.9+ update, WordPress greatly improved the media experience for users, letting you create audio and video playlists on your site to enhance the user-experience. WordPress continues its rapid stream of updates, and has announced that WordPress 4.0 is now in open Beta. It boasts of many new features.

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Add Audio/Video Playlists to WordPress

WordPress has come a long way from the boring old 3.0+ version to the much more optimized and streamlined version you see today. With the 3.9+ update, WordPress has greatly improved the media experience for users. Far from just images and videos, you can now add audio and video playlists as well on your website to enhance the experience for your visitors. Let's take a look at how you can enrich your website's user-experience and add audio/video playlists along with thumbnail images in WordPress.

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WordPress SEO

WordPress is an immensely popular web Content Management System that is used by millions of websites around the world! People never seem to stop asking the question: which is better, Blogger or WordPress? And indeed both have their pros and cons, making it almost impossible to declare a winner. But in today's ever-changing SEO environment, WordPress seems to offer a certain edge to users.

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Google Publisher Plugin for WordPress

Do you run a self-hosted WordPress site? Do you use any Google service? If you're a dedicated blogger or webmaster, then chances are that you do, because using major Google services such as Google AdSense, Google Webmaster Tools etc. is essential for every webmaster. Now you know how these Google services integrate with other Google services such as Google+ and Blogger etc. But even if you don't run your blog on Blogger, and use WordPress instead, you can use the new Google Publisher Beta Plugin for WordPress to get some of the Google services within your WordPress site!

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automatically open links in new windowJust today a client requested us that he wish to open all his external links in new window or new tab when clicked and he is not willing to manually do it for each post by adding target="_blank" inside each hyperlink. We wrote down a simple jQuery script that will check all hyperlinks inside your blog pages and will only add the target="_blank"  attribute to links which are external links. It wont  put any effect to internal links of the blog. The script will only detect external hostnames and the moment it finds one, it will insert into the html a target attribute that tells the browser to open the link in a new window. Thus preventing your blog readers from leaving your blog and also helps in increasing your overall pageviews and bounce rate. We thought we shall also share the script with all of you. 

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Create a Forum with WordPress


Forums are a great way to manage and increase user interactions on your website. They can be used to build online communities. Creating a forum on your website can be a daunting task, but the availability of the many free and open-source forum software make it really easy. The real issue might arise when integrating one of these with WordPress, without having to create forums on a separate sub-domain (and hence as a separate site). Fortunately, you have a solution for that as well in bbPress - the most popular forum software for WordPress.

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WordPress Database Queries

One of the many reasons why we like WordPress is the power and flexibility that the publishing platform provides. It offers so many customizations, and you can do so much more with it. One of the best features about it is, you can use and interact with WordPress Databases to add your own functionality, and extract some extra data that you can't normally do without installing some third party plugins. For those of our readers who're WordPress users, we'd like to share some simple (and some advanced) MySQL database queries you can run to do some advanced and useful actions.

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sticky floating bar for genesisIf you are a CopyBlogger StudioPress Customer and uses Genesis as your Wordpress theme Framework, then you may know that playing with core genesis theme functions ain't that easy unless you know a better shortcut. In this tutorial you will learn an extremely easy way to create a sticky floating bar to show Random Headlines in your Wordpress blogs powered by Genesis. We won't be using PHP but would use JavaScript for our front-end scripting. Just like HelloBar and several other attention grabber bars, you can create a custom one for free. This long horizontal Stickybar can be added at Blog Footer or Header and is fully responsive in design.  It will display rotating Links of your most recent posts in random order on each page refresh.  A New headline will appear on every next pageview, thus giving you an extra advantage of increased Pageviews. It also contains a light toggle button to hide or show the sticky bar. I have created both Static and Dynamic versions of this bar for your convenience. Lets add this cute, light-weight stickyBar Plugin to your wordpress blogs!

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wordpress upgrade errorsWordpress version 3.5 recently got released and just like always, many webmasters are striking their heads against the wall due to newly introduced database errors. Wordpress emphasize greatly to backup your database before making any change but most often we forget to backup and click the Upgrade button in hurry- what follows next is a horrible nightmare for those who are not well versed with MySQL database management and error recognition. I recently got into the same trouble while updating our sister blog i.e. Smart Earning Methods.  I forgot to backup the database! Fortunately we receive schedule backups on our Email daily and this was no less than a blessing. The site I updated to WP 3.5, got messed up with plenty of Query errors all pointing to the plugin directory.

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