Working with WordPress Custom Fields

September 12th, 2012 by Laeeq | 1 comment

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In our previous articles, you have read about Hooks and Plugins. In this article, we will discuss about WordPress Custom Fields and its use.

What are WordPress Custom Fields?

WordPress Custom Fields are a form of meta data that allows you to store individual infromation with each WordPress post. it’s a powerful component of WordPress posts and content type. Actually WordPress has the ability to allow post authors to assign custom fields to a post. This arbitrary extra information is known as meta-data. This meta-data can include bits of information such as:

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Use of Hooks in WordPress

August 17th, 2012 by Laeeq | 1 comment

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If your are in WordPress developemnt, then you can not ignore the importance of hooks. suppose you want to add some functionality to WordPress, you will need to edit some core functionality of WordPress. But WordPress doesn’t allow you to do this. Just use WordPress Hooks to add functionality to WordPress. So now question arises what’s Hooks. actually WordPress hooks are actions and filers which is used to add or modify WordPress functionalities. So here in this post we will discucss WordPress Hooks and its types that’s used during WordPress Plugin development.

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A Smart way to develop wordpress plugin

August 13th, 2012 by Laeeq | 2 comments

WordPress is a award winning CMS that changed the trends of blogging. it provides easy way to create and manage your blog. you can easily modify, customize and enhance functionality of your WordPress blog. You don’t need to change the core functionality of your WordPress blog. it provides easy way to add functionality with WordPress plugins. A WordPress plugin is a progam or can say a set of one or more functions which is written in the PHP scripting language which adds a specific set of features to your WordPress blog.

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Reduce Spam Comment On WordPress Blogs Using Akismet Plugin

July 3rd, 2012 by Laeeq | 1 comment

As we know that WordPress is the most used plateform for blogging website. but when your blog started getting traffic, probably you can face spam comments problem. spam comments problem is natural with WordPress blog. But you can fix this issue by using WordPress plugins. Actually When You install WordPress blog, thre are few plugins also installed with it. And you will have to just activate and configure these plugins. if you go to your blog’s Plugin tab, you will find a plugin installed name as Akismet.

Akismet is knwon as the best WordPress plugin to reduce comment spam. The plugin checks each and every comment, pingbacks and trackbacks submitted in your blog and runs critical checks on the Akismet web service to determine whether the comment is a spam or not.

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Top WordPress Themes Collection

June 29th, 2012 by Laeeq | 2 comments

WordPress is the most used plateform for blogging website. you can setup your new blog in a while. its very simple to install themes into WordPress blog. But you know design is most important thing for a website. Actaully design makes content more evident,  also makes content more readable and semantic. So We have devoted a lot of time to collect simple WordPress themes for your blog. Below is the list of simple WordPress blog themes with its download links.

1. Classic Theme

It’s a simple wordpress theme that’s fully html5 compatible. its very easy to modify and integrate.

Download Theme From Here

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Top WordPress SEO Plugins 2012

June 27th, 2012 by Laeeq | 8 comments

In my previous post you had know about useful wordPress captcha plugins. As we know worspress is one of the most popular open source project for publishing content on the web. WordPress has more than 120 millon blogs on the web. but problem is , how people will find your content on the internet. Search engine optimization (SEO), which is an art and a science that helps search engines discover your content and understand how relevant it is to specific search queries. Luckily, the WordPress plugin community values SEO and has developed a number of plugins to help. Here in this post you will learn about major wordpress SEO plugins.

1. WP SEO By Yoast

This is a all in one WordPress SEO plugin . it’s full featured seo plugin with xml sitemap, webmaster tools verification, RSS Optimization, Social integration, breadcrumbs, page analysis, rich snippets etc.

Download

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WordPress Mobile Apps

June 20th, 2012 by Laeeq | 3 comments

WordPress now became the first plateform that provides all kind of apps support across major smartphone plateforms. these apps makes fast photo sharing,  content writing  and content editing.

Let’s take a look at major WordPress Mobile Apps that makes blogging easy and fast.

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WordPress for iOS is the WordPress app that makes blogging easy. By WordPress for iOS, you can write posts, upload photos, edit pages edit pages, and manage comments on your blog from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. You can Download from here.

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17 Useful WordPress Captcha Plugins

June 19th, 2012 by Laeeq | 4 comments

WordPress is one of the best blog platforms for preventing spammers and spam bots from posting blog comments. But we still needs to install a captcha plugin to help get rid of spam on your blog. Actually WordPress captcha plugins are designed to prevent unwanted spam posts, registrations and comments on your WordPress blog.

Let’s take a look at some usefull WordPress captcha plugins to prevent spammers and spam bots from posting blog comments.

 

1. SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam

This Worpdress captcha plugin adds CAPTCHA anti-spam methods to WordPress forms for comments, registration, lost password, login, or all. In order to post comments or register, users will have to type in the code shown on the image. it prevents spam from automated bots. it works great with Akismet. Also is fully compatible with WPMU and BuddyPress.

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Useful Hacks For WordPress Development

June 6th, 2012 by Laeeq | 7 comments

During WordPress theme Development, we have to write few common functionality repeatedly like social media sharing, popular posts, display author information etc. these things sometimes makes us frustrate. So here in this post I am going to give you major wordpress code hacks that you can use in your code which will save you a lot of time as well as speed-up development.

Display Author Information For Posts

By putting the codes below in your single.php file, you can display the information from the post author’s profile on your blog and show a bit about them. This is especially useful if you’ve got a lot of authors on your blog.

  1. <div id=“author-info”>  
  2. <div id=“author-image”>  
  3. <a href=“<?php the_author_meta(‘user_url’); ?>”><?php echo get_avatar( get_the_author_meta(‘user_email’), ’80′ ); ?></a>  
  4. </div>  
  5. <div id=“author-bio”>  
  6. <h4>Written by <?php the_author_link(); ?></h4>  
  7. <?php the_author_meta(‘description’); ?>  
  8. </div>  
  9. </div>  

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WordPress Development: Common Functions analysis

June 1st, 2012 by Laeeq | 1 comment

WordPress is a popular blogging and CMS platform. Its a open source free php plateform where you can create a beautiful website or blog. It is easy to use and customize, and there’s basically nothing you can’t do with it.

In this article, we will take a look at some common functions in WordPress.

WordPress has many useful PHP functions. Some of the functions, known as Template Tags that are defined especially for use in WordPress Themes
These functions are an essential component of WordPress theme development. once you understand how they work, it’s easy to create your own custom WordPress themes.

WordPress Navigation functions

WordPress is popular for its navigation-related functions like wp_list_pages and wp_nav_menu function

We’ll talk about these two functions, starting with wp_list_pages.

Listing All Pages

If You want to list all of the pages , there’s a simple function for that called wp_list_pages. When used without any parameters, it will list all of your pages in alphabetical order.

  1. <?php wp_list_pages(); ?>

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