Using Jetpack Custom CSS for your WordPress site

Developed by guys at Automatic, Jetpack is a cool WordPress plugin that brings a lot features from WordPress.com to your self-hosted site on WordPress. I can name here a list of features that would make our life whole lot easier in managing our WordPress site, such as: Site statistics, Carousel for image galleries effect, Publicize, Mobile theme and so on. Seriously, lots of them are amazing and you should check them out.

In the scope this article, I will talk about one feature that we would highly recommend for our users to use, it is Custom CSS.

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SEO tips: Keywords and On-page SEO

SEO contains two main areas: On-page and Off-page. While Off-page SEO is about link analysis, backlinks, On-page SEO is all about keywords placement, meta description, title and so on. In this tutorial, I will be talking solely about Keywords for On-page optimization.

In the past, there was a myth that: the more keywords the better your site was. We all know it’s not true today as Google and other search engines get smarter and smarter. Overusing keywords and doing it in a wrong way will cost us a fortune.

Where should I put my keywords? How much should I stuff up? Here are some tips you can count on.

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All you know about WordPress Text Widget

Working with WordPress, we all have to agree that Widgets, among other factors, are the key to make WordPress powerful. And among all those widgets, my favourite one is Text Widget. This is also one of the most commonly used WordPress widgets.

Text Widget is amazing in term of functionality: it supports HTML, shortcode, embeds & JavaScript, adds text, audio, video, images and a lot more. The widget can be placed anywhere on your site as long as that area allows widgets.

In this tutorial, I will walk you through all the main functions that you can do with Text Widget.

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How to handle a WordPress Security Attack

Today we will be taking a look at what steps you can take should you discover your WordPress site is undergoing a security attack, as well as how you can start the recovery process to bring your site back online and restore its content.

While no one who has suffered from forced downtime, or had their site hacked wants to hear that it could have been prevented, or at least had the effects mitigated with a few free plugins, we will also take this opportunity to highlight a few key steps that can be taken to prevent such an attack succeeding in the future.

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New release: DWQA Embed Question Plugin for WordPress DW Question and Answer

After the first introduction in Feb, the Embed Question feature along with Social sharing has been one of the most anticipated features of DW Question and Answer plugin. Last week, we have released the Beta version of this add-on and sought out for feedback on our Q&A site. You can visit this link and read the discussion. Thanks to all the feedback and bugs report, we have updated and finally release the DWQA Embed Question Plugin.
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What’s new in WordPress 3.9?

Update on 29th March: WordPress 3.9 Beta 3 has been rolled out with more than 200 changes for Widget previews, UI refinement and media manager. Read the announcement for more details.
Update on 20th March: WordPress 3.9 Beta 2 has been out with tons of changes and updates from Beta 1, especially bug fixes for TinyMCE and Widget management. Read the announcement for more details.

Just by the end of last year, WordPress community welcomed the release of WordPress 3.8 Parker. Couple months later, once again we are expecting another milestone: WordPress 3.9 which is scheduled for the release in April.

Meanwhile, WordPress 3.9 Beta 1 has been released recently and this becomes a hot topic everywhere. We all know that WordPress 3.8 has been a great release with improvements in the UI. Now coming to WordPress 3.9, it is promising release with significant improvements and updates in the core as well as the user experience in which good becomes better.

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SEO for WordPress: all you need to know about WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast

SEO for WordPress

By far, WordPress SEO by Yoast is one of the most well-known SEO plugin for WordPress. We ourselves, use this plugin on DesignWall.com also. If you have not known or used it before then you are missing out. Available for free, WordPress SEO by Yoast is a powerful tool and comes with a handful of features.

In this tutorial, I will talk about the settings of the plugin and our use case of the plugin.

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Tips to enhance your WordPress site security

Along with content building and SEO practices for your WordPress site, security is another important factor that needs to be addressed at an early stage. You can never tell when your website would be hacked or suffer from malware infection. Yeah, we all know how terrible it would be. So why not buckle down to implement strict security methods right away to save your site, our sites from constant dangerous attacks. In this article, I am going to share with you some tips & tricks on how to harden security in WordPress.

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DW Question & Answer WordPress Plugin version 1.2.0 update release is now available

Keeping up with the regular updates and improve schedule for the plugin DW Question and Answer since its stable release of version 1.1.0, now we have made it to the version 1.2.0 of the DW Question and Answer plugin. The update release is available on both DesignWall and WordPress.org.

What’s new in this update version? The plugin now has Sticky Question feature, Thesis theme compatible, Shortcode added, New setting for number of questions displayed on a page and much more.

 

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DW Question & Answer WordPress plugin version 1.1.0: A complete makeover

DW Question and Answer plugin for WordPress

It has been awhile since we first released our DW Question & Answer WordPress plugin and we feel grateful for receiving lot of interests and support and as well as contributed ideas. Though it is our free WordPress plugin, we have been spending a huge commitment and effort in developing the plugin and keep it growing.

To kick start the new year, we proudly announced the new release of DW Question & Answer plugin: version 1.1.0 with a makeover along with bug fixes and a lots of improvements.

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Introducing Free WordPress Plugin: DW PromoBar – Ultimate customizable top bars

We all know about the Hellobar, a simple yet handy tool to create an eye-catching and concise message on your site. We, ourselves, also used to use HelloBar for our promotions and campaigns. However, we came to face obstacles: limited number of clicks (unless we pay for more) and we could not have a countdown clock. So we decided to write one!

Here it is! Say hello to: DW PromoBar – a free Top/Promotion Bar plugin for WordPress.

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