LESS with WordPress development

What is LESS? LESS is a “dynamic stylesheet language” or technically a CSS preprocessor. This means that LESS supports and extends the CSS language, makes CSS become more flexible using variables, functions and classes. LESS arises as one of the popular CSS preprocessors, along with two others: Sass and Stylus.

Why LESS?

We all have to agree that CSS is an easy to learn and use, especially when it comes to theme and web development. The introduction of CSS3 has made things better and greater. However, sometime we found ourselves repeat code over and over again all over the stylesheet, and this is not what we usually call “Don’t repeat yourself”. Thus, whenever a change needs to be done, it has to be done in different places.

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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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Favicon in WordPress

What is favicon? According to Wikipedia we know that:

A favicon /ˈfævɪkɒn/ (short for Favorite icon), also known as a shortcut icon, Web site icon, tab icon or bookmark icon, is a file containing one or more[1] small icons, most commonly 16×16 pixels, associated with a particular Web site or Web page.

Technically, favicon is an icon, a visual identity for your web page.

In this article, I will review useful information about favicon, its characteristics, how to design and install favicon for your WordPress site. Let’s start with a question: why should we use favicon?

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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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Empowered WordPress DW Question & Answer Plugin now got upgraded with bug fixes and improvements

DW Question & Answer is our free WordPress plugin to build up a powerful and engaging question & answer site. Since the release in November, we have received lots of good feedback as well as great idea suggestions for the plugin – 5 stars rated plugin on WordPress.org

It’s not only yours wish to have a better and feature-rich plugin, but that’s also our ambition. After weeks of research and development, we are delight to announce the release of DW Question & Answer version 1.0.3 with WordPress 3.8, features added, improvements in back-end and major bug fixes.

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Guide to Thanksgiving, BlackFriday & Cyber Monday Top WordPress Deals 2013 [Expired]

Happy Thanksgiving, Black Friday & Cyber Monday (Phew! What’s a mouthful)

The crazy sale season of the year is about to begin, how excited it is? Sometimes it is quite challenging to search and hunt down all the best deals during this season (who wants to miss a good deal anyway?).

So, in order to save you guys a big time, we have been gone around the internet and have this comprehensive list of the best available deals on WordPress related products (themes and plugins) into this blog post.

The Thanksgiving, Black Friday & Cyber Monday deals are all over. We will be back for another great sale list soon.

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Responsive One Page WordPress Theme – DW Page and its Frequently Asked Questions

Released early this year, DW Page is one of our unique responsive one page WordPress theme which has won many hearts. Our thanks to all the support and feedback we received from you all.

Through our support we realize that there are few repeated issues and questions (commonly about installation and some minor changes for DW Page). To make it easier for you and as well as others to follow up, we have made a list of frequently asked questions and solutions. Hope you will find it helpful.

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