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12 WP Plugins to Display and Highlight Code within your Blog

If you have ever tried to display code within a post you will know all about the problems this can cause. That is why there are some amazing developers who create plugins to make that solve this niggly issue.
Which is the best? I have been using Code Markup, it is simple to use and displays the code just the way I wanted it. To be honest, they are all good, it just depends on your needs.

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Looking for Facebook WordPress Plugins? Facebook is one the biggest social networking sites and most of the users update their account regularly and it is a good medium to share stuff with friends. So installing a Facebook plug-in to your WordPress blog enables your users to easily share the posts. Herein are 6 cool WordPress plugins for Facebook.

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Create daily backups of your WordPress blog MySQL database as it is the single most important data resource that is required to restore your blog should you need to urgently migrate to another host or restore your database from a crashed server.

Wordpress codex suggests some excellent ways to back up database using phpMyAdmin, MySQL commands, and MySQL administrator. But are you willing to backup your site daily using phpMyAdmin? We are all lazy to do that everyday over the year. You need a database backup tool which will automatically back up your MySQL database for you and send it across to a safe storage space such that the latest backup is there whenever you need it, wherever you need to restore database from across the world.

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WordPress has become the most popular blogging platform for a while now, and you’re probably using it if you write on a self-hosted blog. One of the key reasons of WordPress success is its templating system. In fact, thousands of free WordPress themes are available on the Internet. However, if you want a truly unique theme, you’ll need to create your own. This article will give you a basic understanding of a WordPress theme’s structure.

The basics

WordPress themes are the standard layout system that define your blog’s appearance. It consists of template files, functions, template tags and images. To install a WordPress theme, you just need to upload it and activate it in your WordPress admin.

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iNove is a free Wordpress theme designed by mg12. It is very stylish, widget supported and doesn’t require any plugin. This theme is released under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 (details), which means you are free to use this theme in your project for any purpose, except for commercial projects.

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Sometimes, we may want to exclude some categories from display in our main page or sidebar. There are a lot of methods to exclude these categories. Here i would like to share 3 types of different method to do so.

Use Wordpress Category Visibility Plugin

This plugin will let you to exclude any tag and category at different pages. For example, you can exclude selected category in the front page, search results, archives, and feeds. Simply activate the plugin and go to your Manage->Category Visibility to manage them. (There are some users who claim this plugin may has conflict with other Wordpress plugins.)

wp_list_categories() template tags

You may use this template tags to list out all categories at your website’s navigation bar or your sidebar. The template tags tutorial website actually teach us how to include or exclude categories by adding parameters when we call this template tags.

Hack the default widgets.php

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WP CODA is a great Wordpress theme developed by Greg Johnson. He manage to implement a nice Wordpress theme which mimics the Coda site functionality by modifying several existing code snippets.

There are three versions of WP CODA. WP CODA and CODA BLUE are developed by Greg Johnson while WP CODA Orange developed by Kerry Webster.

WP CODA Orange

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You may notice that some popular websites add an “email this article to friend” link at the bottom of the article. This is to let people recommend the article to their friends. Adding such feature in other CMS are very easy, but how about add this features in a Wordpress blog?

There is a Wordpress plugin called WP-Email developed by Lester Chan, which add such feature to your Wordpress blog.

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If you browse to your Wordpress Folders such as wp-content, you may see something like this:

That means, others can easily know your installed themes and plugins, which is very dangerous and easily to hacked by hackers.

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How often are you change your Wordpress admin’s password? What happen if you forgot your Wordpress admin account password? Do you need to delete the databse and recreate it?

Although you cannot recover your current admin’s password, but it is not neccessary to delete the database and recreate it. You can simply replace it with a new password. Here, i will show you a very simple method to replace the password.

First of all, open your favorite code editor, or simply Notepad if you don’t have any. Then, place these code into the file and save it as reset.php.

<?php
require('./wp-blog-header.php');

global $wpdb;
$password = '12345';    //change this to your desired password.
$admin_login = 'admin';        //your Wordpress admin username.

$wpdb->query("UPDATE $wpdb->users SET user_pass = MD5('$password') WHERE user_login = '$admin_login'");
?>

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