Apr 26, 2016 0

An updated WordPress version can do wonders on your website. Here’s how.

WordPress is an ever growing Content Management system which frequently releases its new versions. With every new update, there is a buzz whether it is worth to upgrade the latest version of WordPress or not. Well, it is very crucial to update the latest versions of WordPress. Here are some important reasons. 1. Enhanced Security Since WordPress has accumulated millions of users, it has also targeted thousands of hackers at the same time. It’s powerful content management system which serves more than 24.7% of the websites on the web which certainly drive attention of the multiple users who are called as “Hackers” or “Data Thieves.” They probably crave to embed a malicious script into your website. Therefore, security is arguably one of the most crucial reason why to keep your website up to date. The new and advanced version comes with improved security and advanced features. This not only applies to the core software of WordPress but also to the universally accepted WordPress themes. Thus, in order to ensure safety and highest security for WordPress users, one needs to focus on its features and security. 2. Better Performance with good Speed WordPress always try hard to make things faster. Every new release of WordPress comes with several improvements in performance which make the popular CMS run quicker and more efficient. It also speeds up the performance of the existing themes and plugins. As an instance, the newer version of WordPress 4.2 comes with several new improved JS performance for navigation

Apr 18, 2016 0

How to Regain Access to Your Hacked WordPress Site?

No matter how much precautions you might be taking in protecting your WordPress site from hackers. You must always stay prepared to face the worst case scenario. In short, you must be ready with a solution to deal with the situation when your site is hacked. But, what could be more problematic is inability to log into your website’s admin panel despite trying numerous username and password combinations. Thankfully, there is a way that could help you deal with such an issue. You might not know but your site’s database provides a backdoor that can render you access over the backend interface. As long as you’re able to access your database, you still can log back into the admin interface by making a few changes to your account. Through this article, we’ll be demonstrating the steps you need to follow for changing the admin user details of your website database. But Before You Start It is imperative that you’re creating a backup of your website, and most importantly, your database. Here’s a great article you can refer to for learning more about how you can backup your WordPress site: Backup and restore WordPress database with cpanel and phpMyAdmin. After all, your database is the last resort that could help you find a way to regain access over your hacked website. But remember, backing up your database using backup tools can be tricky when you don’t have access of your site. If that’s the case, then you could use phpMyAdmin to

Mar 31, 2016 0

How to Increase Twitter Shares on Your WordPress Blog?

One great way to increase your WordPress blog traffic is to maximize the number of shares on popular social media channels such as Twitter and others. Getting more shares on social network helps boost a blog’s exposure. But, in order to increase shares on Twitter, you’ll first need to encourage visitors to Tweet in your posts. You can achieve this objective, by adding “Click to Tweet” boxes in your WordPress blog posts that looks something like: In this post, we’ll talk about different steps following which you can add a beautiful looking tweet box in your WP posts using the “Click to Tweet” plugin. Can also read this : WordPress Plugins Are Indispensable, Yet Come With A Caution! Installing and Configuring “Click to Tweet” Plugin Step 1 – To make use of the Click to Tweet plugin, you’ll first need to install and activate it. To do so, login to your website’s admin panel and then navigate to Settings → Plugins from the admin dashboard screen. Step 2 – Click on ‘Add New’ option under the Plugins menu. From your Plugins settings page starts searching for the Click To Tweet plugin. Step 3 – Once you have found the plugin, click on the “Install Now” button as shown in the screen below: Step 4 – Now that the plugin is installed, next you have to activate it. After activating the plugin, you’ll be redirected to the ‘Click to Tweet’ plugin settings screen. Step 5 – From the plugin’s settings screen,

Mar 18, 2016 0

What’s So Exceptional In WordPress 4.5 Updated Features For Developers?

As you know that beta version of WordPress 4.5 was already been released by WordPress organization. Following closely with the development process of WordPress, it’s a great news that WordPress 4.5 version, that’s the latest version of WordPress is now expected to be released by the second week of April, 2016. In this article, you will come across various essential highlights of WordPress 4.5 version that will help you know about “what’s new is cooking inside WordPress 4.5 version features and its screen-shots. Well, this is the beta release of WordPress 4.5 version and it comes with all the new features that you are going to have access to WordPress 4.5 until its final release that is due in the second week of April 2016. Nowadays WordPress development process is drastically taking its brand name among WordPress developers. But, developing a professionally sound WordPress website surely needs to focus towards hiring a professionally sound WordPress Developer. It will help you increase your chances of getting more business opportunities at high productivity rates. Let’s see what are those unique and enhanced amenities that WordPress 4.5 version has in its store? Theme Logo Support: Appending a Theme logo feature from a customizer is a long awaited feature in WordPress CMS tool. WordPress 4.5 version has added new theme logo support to WordPress core. There are too many premium WordPress themes that efficiently encourage users to upload custom logo features, by using their own options panel. With the core support of WordPress feature,

Mar 11, 2016 0

WordPress Plugins Are Indispensable, Yet Come With A Caution!

No one can deny the fact that one of the most crucial factor why WordPress has retained its position since past 12 years is because it is a highly adaptable platform that has the capability to adapt new functionalities easily. The credit goes adroit WordPress developers who have developed incredible plugins that have takes the functionalities of a regular CMS platform to a new level. However, as we know that excess of everything is bad, thus we need to maintain quite a good balance while picking up the right number of plugins for your website. Why there should be a limit? Well as such there is no limit as one of the WP users have reported that they have used around 637 plugins in their website which is I guess way too much. But there is a limit to it and to know why we need to delve deeper to get to know the working of plugins. Plugins do effect the backend as well as front end of your website. This implies that they render functions that can be utilized by a admin of a site for instance SEOs, analytics, backups and more and also helps the site owners to add features that can be helpful for the visitors such as widgets, slider or font customization. This is the reason why plugins impact performance of a site in two different ways such as they add additional database queries and HTTP requests. More importantly your Database Queries Apart from this there

Jan 12, 2016 0

3 Major Features of WordPress 4.4 Version Worth Exploring

WordPress is well-known for releasing new version updates quite frequently. It’s been just a year since WordPress 4.3 was launched, and now the CMS giant has introduced its new 4.4 version. Called as “Clifford”, the recent version update brings forth many new features just like older WordPress versions. Through this article, I’ll be helping you learn about WordPress 4.4 new features worth exploring. 1. Twenty Sixteen Theme Well, one of the most common features you can expect from every WP version release is a new default theme. And this time is no different, as the 4.4 version has introduced a brand new default theme, referred to as “Twenty Sixteen”. What makes the theme distinct from previous default themes is its modern yet minimalist look and feel. In fact, the new theme looks a lot like the Tumblr blog rather than a typical WordPress blog. Also it delivers the same kind of experience across devices similar to Tumblr blogs. In addition, it can also be changed using a wide collection of color schemes. 2. Responsive Images The second most notable feature of WordPress 4.4. version is responsive images. For quite long, making a site’s images responsive has been a pain for WP users and developers alike. But now with the responsive images feature, you no longer have to worry about making your images scale to the fit any device screen. Since this is a built-in feature of 4.4 version, you just need to activate it. 3. Embed WordPress Posts Directly Into

Dec 3, 2015 0

All Hail The Revamped and Fully Open-source WordPress.com

If you’re joining the world of blogging, then you’ll most likely hear about WordPress.com. It’s a popular blogging site co-created by WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg and his company known as Automattic. WordPress.com comes with tools that will help you blog, and most importantly, it helps in hosting your WordPress website or blog for free. But, discussing about what WordPresss.com does isn’t our agenda in this article. Instead, we intend to exert on the major enhancements that have been introduced in WordPress.com, making the WordPress.com platform gets a revamp and become 100% open-source platform. Read on further to know more about the story behind the new face of WordPress.com. What Convinced Automattic to Relaunch WordPress.com? A lot has changed and many new developments have been made since WordPress was introduced back in 2003 as an open-source blogging platform. And today, it has evolved into a full-fledged CMS that powers over 25 percent websites over the web. But after successfully completing 10 years of legacy, Automattic (the company that was founded by Matt Mullenweg) realized that they need to build modern and more mobile-friendly experiences to stay ahead of the competition – such as Medium. As a fact, according to Matt Mullenweg “the tech wasn’t going to take them to the next decade.” This is what made the Automattic team decide on giving an overhaul to the WordPress admin interface. Although, work on revamping the interface was started a year-and-a-half ago, so as to make the admin interface responsive and a lot

Mar 20, 2015 0

WordPress 4.2 Beta 2 Version Made Available For Testing

Just a week after the release of WordPress 4.2 beta 1, the CMS giant released the second beta of version WordPress 4.2. Since the final release of the version WordPress 4.2 isn’t expected to happen before April, eager testers can start testing their code prior to the official release. Beta 2 release isn’t ready for production yet, and so make sure to setup a test site to test your code, instead of upgrading your live website to the new beta. Let us now have a quick glimpse of the things you can do for testing your website against the beta 2 release. Added a Layer of Security While developing a WordPress website, the security of the website is one of the biggest concerns among site owners. Luckily, WordPress provides several security measures to keep a site secure from vulnerabilities. For instance, it asks for FTP or SSH information when upgrading or installing plugins automatically. But this may not be true for all WordPress sites. In simple words, you might not be asked to enter any FTP connection information before a plugin update. But beta 2 has resolved this issue, and added support for entering “FTP and SSH credentials” at the time of updating plugins. Better Cross-browser Support for Emoji Observing the growing popularity of Emoji characters, support for the same was added with the release of beta 1, however, with beta 2 you’ll experience improved cross-browser support for emoji. Jaynes, the lead of the beta 2 release, encourage users using

Jan 16, 2015 0

DIVERSIFYING YOUR WEBSITE TO BE COMPATIBLE ACROSS MULTIPLE DEVICES

With the growing diversity in devices used to access the Internet, the most challenging aspect of website development is building a website that works in perfect unison with all the major operating systems and devices. If your website looks great on desktop systems but looks oddly out of place on iPhones and Androids, you have a perfect recipe for disaster right in your hands, and the sooner you do something about it, the lesser will be the consequences. Source : Thinkwithgoogle.com With such far-ranging Internet audience in terms of the devices, it has become imperative for businesses trying to reach out to their customers via the web to adapt. The focus has to be narrowed and the stratagem has to be made even more comprehensive. Keeping in lieu the same, different terms have started bouncing around the walls lately. Responsive designs and made-for-mobile websites are now increasingly been heard since the focus is shifting more and more on addressing all types of devices. Here is why you need a website that works well across multiple devices: Mobile Users are Expanding by the Minute You don’t need to be a marketing or digital guru to know this for a fact that Smartphones have invaded the market. There is no bar in terms of age or purchasing power, everybody is pursuing to own a Smartphone wherefrom they can work on the move, stay connected to friends, family and colleagues and so on. As a website owner, you thus have to make sure that

Dec 20, 2014 0

WordPrax Ltd. – The Undisputed Leader in PSD to WordPress Services

WordPress is our territory, and we have a proven track record of not leaving any rough spot. As a PSD to WordPress conversion service provider, WordPress has under its belt a decade of experience and a legion of highly satisfied clients. The WordPress websites we deliver have continually helped business to grow and prosper, riding on the exceptional set of features that they enjoy on the website, which fuels them to further their reach in the market. At Wordprax, we build WordPress themes that contain endless possibilities. Their customizability makes them highly suited across different domains, and their robustness makes sure there are no site crashing risks for you to contend with. Our PSD to WordPress conversion is characterized by:  #1.) International Coding Standards Not leaving any grey areas, we adhere to W3C compliance standards and make sure there are no bumps in quality. Besides that, we keep our codes SEO semantic so that your website is kept in sync with the search engine algorithms. #2.) Diverse Services Our industry-wide expertise can be owed to our extensive team of developers who have learned WordPress skills over many years from global engagements with the biggest of brands and their websites. Each member in our team brings something new to the table, and this further fuels innovation at Wordprax. Our diverse expertise enables us to create fresh themes, customize existing ones and transform existing websites into powerful WordPress themes. 3.) Processes Honed by Futuristic Technology Conditioned for excellence, we make use of