Lubith: Create Your Own WordPress Theme Without Knowing Even A Single Bit Of Code
WordPress theme development is one of my favorite development activity. Nowadays I’m learning how to develop a WordPress theme. In this development venture I found a website through which anyone can make a WordPress theme without knowing even a single bit of code. Yeah! Not only developers but anyone can create its own WordPress theme.
Site name is Lubith and its address is lubith.com. You need to register before you start using it. You are provided with a designing kit and default wordpress theme of 2010 i.e TwentyTen. Below is a screenshot if its design kit with TwentyTen.
You can add another sidebar to TwentyTen theme. Change background colors of different items on the theme like the body which I’ve colored like skin. After messing a lot if you find yourself in totally messed up the things just click the ‘theme’ on the left and click ‘reset’. You will be given a brand new theme to modify according to your needs 
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To download go to ‘theme’ and then ‘download’. A download link will be send to your email address, with which you registered.
Off course you need to have a sense of designing to design an attractive WordPress theme. This site only provides you with the tools to easily create WordPress theme. Great Service! If you know any other service like this then do share it with us.
4 Plugins For Your WordPress Admin Bar
WordPress admin bar is of course a good feature added to the latest versions of WordPress. Lots of options are directly available like creating post, managing comments etc. Well some people don’t like this admin bar and they have disabled it.
This post is for those who love to use that admin bar and I’m going to list some useful plugins for WordPress admin bar.
Simple and easy to use plugin for managing your new admin bar. It gives you the ability to change the visibility of the admin bar for different user roles. Change the styling or remove the admin bar. It also gives the power of disabling the admin bar on single page or for current browser session.
This plugin does the same this thing as the former one, the difference is only that you can disable the admin bar for an individual user. It is not a recommended plugin if you want to disable the admin bar for all users as you have to do it for each user.
The functionality of this plugin is visible from its name. If you don’t like the admin bar on the top then you can move it at the bottom of the page, heh!
This plugin comes with 4 features. First: You can show/hide the admin bar by moving the mouse over it and the show/hide button will appear. Second: Display the login form in the admin bar like wordpress.com. This will make admin bar visible even if you are not logged in. Third: Registration link in the admin bar. Fourth: Ajax search in the admin bar; once you have started writing the words it will display the results in a pop-down menu.
Global Hide/Remove Admin Bar Plugin
This plugin disables the admin bar for all users.
Whats ClickJacking Protection in WordPress 3.1.3?
WordPress 3.1.3 came with lots of security updates and enhancements. One of them is the protection from clickjacking. So whats this clickjacking? who use it and why? and are we safe from it now?
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What is clickjacking?
Clickjacking is a technique used by bad guys (hackers). With this technique they create a transparent layer over the web page, like a transparent button over login buttton, so whenever the victim inputs its username and password and clicks the “login” button then in reality the victim got trapped because he/she clicked the fake button.
Such kind of tricks were quite visible few months ago in Facebook. Whevener a Facebook user tries to play a clickjacked video he/she automatically likes a Facebook page.
Who Use It?
Definitely a hacker.
Are WordPress Blogs Safe From ClickJacking?
If this question was asked before the release of 3.1.3 then the answer was “no”, but now, thanks God, answer is “yes”. WordPress community released 3.1.3 with many security updates using this one, they have added clickjacking protection for modern browsers. So now we can login to our blogs safely. Thanks to WordPress developers for making this software better each day.
Use KeywordLuv WordPress Plugin and Encourage Commentators
Before this I wrote how making your comments doFollow can increase comments on your blog, Read: Make Your Blog DoFollow and Increase Commentators. Now I’ve found another plugin through which you can encourage visitors to leave a comment and in return get a doFollow link, with “Keyword”, to their blog.
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Lets take an example. Nowadays I’m writing articles more on WordPress than any other category on my blog, so I’ll try to rank my blog high with the keyword “WordPress”. Now when I comment on a blog having KeywordLuv installed I will comment like this:
Omar Tariq Jutt @ WordPress
This gives commentators ability to leave a comment with a link, having favorite keyword, to their site. So whats wrong if we comment on a doFollow blog with our name? Actually when we do so we are creating a backlink with a keyword which is our name to our site. This will rank high our blog with the keyword that is our name. That will not provide any benefit to our blog’s search engine ranking. Thats why spammers uses keywords in the name segment while commenting.
With this plugin we can please the commentator by letting him create a backlink to his site with required keyword and also doesn’t make our comments look like spams.
This will invite more commentators (and more spammers of course) to your blog. Read about spams:
Converting WordPress Into Twitter Like Social Media Site
WordPress is such a flexible blogging software that you can use it for any kind of blogging purpose from writing long posts to micro blogging. And when it comes to micro blogging, it is getting popular day by day. Best example of micro blogging is Twitter (no doubt Facebook is also micro blogging platform). Here you have a chance to convert your WordPress blog or site into a Twitter like social media site for posting updates. Below is a snapshot of such a theme:
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Theme is best if you want to make your blog look like Twitter. Theme is developed by the Automattic, below are some words of Matt on this theme:
We found a solution in Prologue which added a posting box to the home page and gave it a Twitter-like feel. Now Automattic had a pulse, a place where the incredible amount of activity was chronicled and captured. It was low-friction and hassle-free, we all started using it more.
There also shortcuts available for quick posting, reply, next post etc.
These shortcuts really make this theme a fast blogging platform. Theme is available on WordPress.com blogs and for self hosted WordPress.
“Bulk Post Creator” WordPress Plugin: For BrainStorming Not For Content Creation
Note: Below mentioned plugin is no more available at WordPress.org. Now the link to that plugin leads to the wordpress.org/extend/plugins. Thanks Julien Guiss from jguiss.com.
Recently I wrote a review of a WordPress plugin “WordPress Google +1 Button“. Installed the plugin on my local host and tested it out. It was a quiet fun. Meanwhile I felt the need of another installation of WordPress on my LocalHost. But this time I also needed content to fully check another WordPress plugin. Writing content for a localhost installation is nothing but a waste of time. So I just wrote wordpress.org/extend/plugins and hit enter. Before I write something in the search I found that there is a recently uploaded WordPress plugin called “Bulk Post Creator”. As clear from its name I thought it is used to create Bulk Posts but actually its functionality is quit different!
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Actually it is used when your brain starts flowing ideas to write about. In such a situation you need this plugin to quickly write all the posts titles, one title one line, you will write in the future.
Quit useful when you start brainstorming and posts titles starts hitting your mind. All you want will be to write posts titles. This will help you develop a structure of your upcoming posts. Also help you to write about the stuff you were more likely to miss if you first thought about the post and then write about it.
Its not that it is a must-have WordPress plugin but it can tremendously increase your blog writing productivity. Not only this it will also make your upcoming posts tightly tangled with each other increasing readers interest.
Usage:
Using the plugin is simple to understand. Right after the installation and activation head towards Posts > Create Bulk Posts.
Now start flowing ideas into your mind and start writing post titles, one on each line. Once you have written all the posts titles and ideas has stopped coming in then you can select either these should be posts or page and below them select their status, well obviously it should be drafts because you still need to write posts body.
Visit Bulk Post Creator WordPress.org page
If you found any plugin like this then do share it with us.
WordPress Plugin Review: “WordPress Google +1 Button”
Recently I’ve posted a tutorial on “How to add a Google +1 Button to Your WordPress Blog Without Using a Plugin“. I would recommend reading this post because it would give you a gist what is actually happening at the back end of any Google +1 Button Plugin.
Recently I downloaded this button and tested on my local host, on both WordPress 3.1.3 and WordPress 3.2 (beta), and it was working fine. Plugin is good enough for those who don’t want to mess up with the code. Just install the plugin, activate it, go to plugin settings page and you are done! It hardly takes 5 minutes.
I would like to list its features:
Google +1 Button can be added to posts, pages, custom post types and attachments.
Forums, Topics and Replies options are displaying because I’ve installed bbPress on my localhost. You can choose any of them, all of them or half of them.
4 Different types of displays; standard, small, medium and tall.
You can also disable the Google +1 Button on particular page’s/post’s metabox.
Enable disable the +1 count on the buttons.
Seven different position options.
and custom CSS.
Plugin has came with lots of easy to implement features. Just install the plugin, set it up and done. Hassle free integration of Google +1 button into your WordPress blog via plugin.
Not Good In English? Don’t Worry A WordPress Plugin Can Handle It
Blogging may not be all about writing but it is 90% all about writing, especially money blogging. You entered the world of blogging but facing problems in writing articles for your blog just because you got bad English grammar and vocab? Don’t worry. I’m going to tell you about a WordPress plugin which can handle your English writing, a WordPress English checker plugin.
The name of the plugin is “After the DeadLine”. I myself use this plugin because my English language is not so good. And not only this I also use it because making a mistake while typing is quite easy, especially for a person like me who type quite recklessly. So in both cases this English checker WordPress plugin is quite necessary for your WordPress blog.
The plugin is developed by Automattic, web development corporation by Matt – developer of WordPress, so its worth installing.
How to install and use “After the DeadLine”
Installation is quite simple as we install all the plugins. But after installation you won’t see any option in the settings or anywhere in the admin area. In order to see if its working or not you have to start writing a test post. Make two to three mistakes intentionally, a red line will appear below these mistakes. As you can see in the below image:
That is normal, these red lines do appear even if you haven’t installed that plugin. Now to use this plugin you have to click the “Proofread Writing” button, button with ABC and tick mark. You can see its image below:
After clicking it, the plugin will check English words of your post and, all the mistakes will be highlighted with thick red line below them. Just click the word and you will get suggestions below. Choose the right one and it will automatically replace that word.
See how handy is that English checker WordPress plugin. Quite useful for speed writers and for those who are bad in English vocabulary. If you know about more useful tools then do share it with us.
Visit After the Deadine Official site —> Click Here
Visit WordPress Plugin Directory Page —> Click Here
JetPack: Get WordPress.com Plugins on Your Self-Hosted WordPress Blog
Have you ever used WordPress.com? If you are using WordPress self hosted or if you know about WordPress you may also have a blog on WordPress.com. Well that is not necessary though. If you have used WordPress.com then you may have experienced their plugins not available for self-hosted WordPress. Well WordPress.com is so nice! Recently in the March, 2011 they have launched JetPack through which we can experience and have all the cool plugins that are available of WordPress.com blogs.
Jet pack has recently hit 100K downloads in the April, 2011. On their blog post they said that:
The future: the Jetpack mission is to continually bring features currently only available on WordPress.com to the rest of the WordPress community. Beyond the recent bug fix releases, we’re investigating WordPress.com’s most popular features and how to engineer them to work inside Jetpack. I can’t say more, but it’s fair to say version 1.2 is likely to contain something impressive – something no ordinary plugin can currently do.
Currently JetPack has 8 plugins of WordPress.com. 4 New Plugins are comming soon.
These 8 WordPress plugins include:
- WordPress.com Stats
- Twitter Widget
- Gravatar Hovercards
- WP.me Shortlinks
- Sharedaddy
- LaTeX
- After the Deadline
- Shortcode Embeds
Good to see these plugins on self-hosted WordPress blogs and special thanks to WordPress.com for bringing such a great for self-hosted WordPress blogs. Hope to see more form WordPress.com.
Visit official site of JetPack -> JetPack.me
Visit WordPress.org Plugin Directory -> JetPack
Adding Google +1 Button To WordPress – Manually
Recently we break through that Google has released +1 button all over the world. In the mean time an email from Adsense inside was received to all the bloggers. Well there are plugins available for adding Google +1 button. This tutorial will teach you how you can achieve the same behavior by manually inserting codes.
Adding Google +1 In WordPress Manually
Step 1: First of all you need to go to the official Google +1 button site.
Step 2: Select how the button should look like.
Step 3: Copy the code that will appear in the white space. In my case it was visible but while taking screenshot it just disappeared.
Step 4: Now we are going to edit functions.php file. Open you theme’s function.php file.
Step 5: At the end of this file just before
</body>
</html>
Step 6: Now paste this code where you want to display the button:
<g:plusone></g:plusone>
Step 7: If you want to display it below your each blog post then simply paste this code in your single.php file right after this code:
<?php the_content(); ?>
You are done. Now you should see a Google +1 button below you each blog post. This button will be unique for your each blog post. Have fun!
