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5 Hand-picked Ways to Boost WordPress Security

by Tracy Ridge | Posted on June 9, 2013 | Security, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Resources

WordPress is the most popular used blogging/CMS software which is why I guess it is used by millions of websites around the world. Unfortunately there are some very bad people out there that will try their hardest to exploit any weaknesses in your blog. If you look through your logs you can guarantee that someone, or something, like bots for example have tried to gain access to your site by attempting to access your login page, registration page or even your forgotten password page. Of course you can never completely eradicate the bad boys but with a good knowledge of WordPress security can help you protect your site as much as possible.

Display WordPress Posts as a News Ticker

by Tracy Ridge | Posted on November 16, 2012 | jQuery, PHP, Script, Tutorial, WordPress Tutorial

The following tutorial will display your latest posts in a news ticker format. The code is basically the same as my popular post Display Your Latest Posts on a Static Page except that the output is in a unordered list for the jQuery news ticker to work. This tutorial is meant for non WordPress websites to access their WordPress powered blog although it can be easily adapted to work in WordPress pages and posts.

Display WordPress Posts on another WordPress Blog

by Tracy Ridge | Posted on August 1, 2012 | CSS, PHP, RSS, Tutorial, WordPress Tutorial

Following on from the post Display Your WordPress Recent Posts on a Static Page which was used to display your WordPress posts on a non-WP website on the same server. I have had several people contacting me on how to display WordPress posts on another WordPress blog. This tutorial will show you how to display your posts, associated post thumbnail images and a snippet of the content from one blog to another by fetching the data from your RSS feed using the SimplePie RSS parser which is included in the WordPress installation.

New to Web Design? Newbies guide to Web Hosting

by Tracy Ridge | Posted on July 3, 2012 | Hosting, Newbies Guide

So you want to start a career in web design but don’t know what to do. Over the coming weeks I will give you some excellent valuable tips, tutorials and resources to get you started from the very beginning. I will first start with a newbies guide to web hosting and the various types of hosting on offer.

Extend The Native WordPress Gallery

by Tracy Ridge | Posted on May 7, 2012 | Gallery, WordPress Resources

The WordPress media management has improved significantly over the years and the inclusion of the WordPress gallery feature back in 2008 enabled for you to display your galleries and link to either attachments pages or the image itself. However there are some features that would enhance the WordPress Gallery even further but are not currently featured in the latest version and not sure if they have been proposed in the next release. Here are just a few of them!

Integrate WP Single Post Navigation into your WordPress Theme

by Tracy Ridge | Posted on March 11, 2012 | CSS, PHP, WordPress Hacks, WordPress Tutorial

This tutorial shows you how to integrate the WP Single Post Navigation into your theme without using the plugin. I initially attempted to use the plugin and for some reason it didn’t work on my custom child theme based on TwentyEleven so I decided to hard code it into my theme by adding it to my functions.php. I will show you two methods, one to display the default WordPress single post navigation and one to display how to reverse the links for a book like affect.