Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog. And the avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums. WordPress has integrated Gravatar on WordPress 2.5 and you don’t need any plugin anymore to show up [...]

Dynamic menu highlighting is a way to give visitors a reference point with which to navigate. Your visitors know where the current location is they are navigating on your site. PHP allows us to add the desired highlighting effect that reacts to whatever page is being viewed. Coupled with WordPress’s is_ functions, we can dynamically [...]

WordPress is the most powerful open source CMS and it’s very flexible. It’s not just a blogging platform, you can create any types of websites with WordPress such as online portfolio. Here we have rounded up 10 kick-ass paid portfolio and gallery WordPress themes that were particularly designed for photographers and graphic designers. It’s best [...]

When you are reading this post, you probably have noticed that there is a flyout block at the right corner once you scroll down to the page. It’s powered by a WordPress plugin called upPrev, developed by item-9.com. The plugin can automatically generates the next post link with the post categories. Visitors can easily click [...]

Pingdom is the most popular web site monitoring service that you can get instant notification via email, Twitter or SMS to let you know when anything goes wrong. With Pingdom, you can monitor the uptime and response time of your websites and servers on the Internet and get alerts immediately if any problems are detected. [...]

Are you a minimalist? Do you believe “Less Is More” theory? Minimalistic approach design has huge portion since you can see the trend of the minimal WordPress themes these days. Here we compile a list of best quality minimal style WordPress themes for you, the minimalist. You can download all these themes for free. Enjoy! [...]

Do you have headache when you create a new site and need to verify it and submit its sitemap though all major search engine? All in One Webmaster WordPress Plugin is a one-stop solution that help you easily integrate meta tags including Google Webmaster Central, Bing WebMaster Center, Yahoo Site Explorer, Alexa Rank, BlogCatalog, & [...]

Have you noticed that we have added a 468×60 rotating banner ads between posts on homepage? You can also create a AdSense ads space between the posts. We have to do a simple template change by adding a few lines PHP codes in the index.php. In this tutorial, we would use WordPress Class Theme as [...]

Previous we have introduced a useful WordPress plugin Revision Control that gives you the ability to enable/disable/limit the number of revisions for pages & posts individually. In order to speed up your WordPress site, WP-Optimize is a dedicated plugin to help you optimize & clean up MySQL database but not just remove post/page revisions. Developed [...]

Twitter announced the Tweet Button for just one day, Blogsessive yesterday has released a new WordPress plugin called Twitter button WordPress plugin for Twitter Tweet Button. Although it’s not hard to manually add a few lines of codes to the template to install the official Twitter Tweet Button, the plugin comes in handy. In the [...]

When we frequently make changes for WordPress setting or tweak the theme, the best solution is that install a WordPress on your local server to preview and test first. Here is a quick tutorial on how to install WordPress locally on your computer. 1. In order to run any PHP/database application on a local computer, [...]

Google Adsense is the most popular contextual advertising program on the web, would you like to have more control over your Google AdSense and improve the CTR? Besides you need to install a Adsense ready WordPress theme for your site, some Google Adsense plugins can also help you implement and manage your Adsense units easier. [...]

WordPress is the most popular and flexible CMS software and blogging platform, it’s definitely not easy for some bloggers who usually free blogging host services like blogger or WordPress.com or LiveJournal, etc. Many bloggers have questions about how to install WordPress on their own hosting servers and how to setup. This is the complete step-by-step [...]

Revisions was the major feature in WordPress 2.6, it will automatically save draft article as revision and you can easily recover and keep a track of modifications for these posts/pages. Anyway, revision feature has pros and cons. Do you know that if you have 100 blog posts in your WordPress blog, there is probably more [...]

WordPress is the most popular open source CMS platform that is easier to get malicious attacks or have a higher risk getting attacks. Maintain your WordPress blog securely should be your first priority always for keeping a successful blog. There are many WordPress Security plugins that we can use to quick and easily secure your [...]