Param Chahal

Param Chahal, the mind behind TemplateToaster have more than a decade of industry experience. He wishes to render his pool of wisdom on to the world by contributing with content ideas here on this blog through a team of dedicated editors and writers.

Best WordPress Video Background Plugins : How to add in a Website

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Are you looking for the best WordPress video background plugins and how to add them to a website? So if you are looking for a plugin that helps make your website look modish and appealing, something that would grab the attention of the visitors, and improve the engagement rate of your website. Themes with video backgrounds help in creating a great impression. The video backgrounds allow you to easily convey a message to your audiences in a clear way.

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Best WordPress Custom Post Type Plugins: How to Create Custom Post Type

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The content is an integral part of a website. There are various built-in types of content provided by WordPress. For a simple blog or website, these content types might as well fit your needs. However, often you may want to create a customised look for your website. You may want to define your own content types with features that are not available by default. If you plan to build a more complex website, you can use the power of custom post types. With custom types, you get the flexibility to create any type of content. In this article, you will learn the benefits of custom post types and how to create them. We will also do a feature comparison of some of the popular WordPress Custom Post Type Plugins.

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9 Best WordPress Security Plugins Compared (2023)

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Check these Best WordPress Security Plugins and secure your business online. Websites owners need to invest for services and products such as plugins, themes, hosting, etc. Any website big or small is always prone to get attacked for known reasons. Therefore, you need to take required steps to secure your website against attacks. However, the security plugins discussed in this guide can help you tighten the security of your site. But choosing the one best solution from available pool of plugins can be challenging. So, to help pick the one perfect solution we have prepared a list of best WordPress security plugins for you. Go through it and decide which plugin can work best for your website.

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WordPress vs Joomla vs Drupal 2023 Comparison

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Choosing a content management system for your website? Not sure about which CMS is the best choice for you? With so many options available this can be a very confusing decision to make. Needless to say, it is also the biggest decision since it will build the foundation on which your website would run. In most of the scenarios, the choice of the CMS that works is different for different systems. Amongst other things, it depends upon your website goals, technical proficiency, budget and other constraints. In this article, will compare 3 of the most widely used content management systems and help you choose one that fits your requirements. Read ahead for a complete WordPress vs Joomla vs Drupal comparison.

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Redirect HTTP to HTTPS : Tutorial for Beginners

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Heard the buzz around SSL and HTTPS enabled websites? As an increasing number of websites are adopting HTTPS, it seems that HTTPS is the way ahead for all data transfers on the Web. Are you still contemplating on whether to make the switch from HTTP to HTTPS for your website? Have you already decided to redirect HTTP to HTTPS for your website? Are you wondering about how to go about this not-so-simple looking task of moving your website or blog to HTTPS? Not to worry, we have recently upgraded the TemplateToaster blog to HTTPS and have all the steps tried and tested. Read ahead, for a step-by-step tutorial to redirect HTTP to HTTPS.

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rel=”noopener noreferrer”: Tutorial for Beginners

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When you search on Google, a page opens with many sites listed. For a novice, they are just randomly placed on the page but an internet versed person, specifically an SEO geek, knows they are placed according to rank. Recently, people from this very SEO community, who are using the latest version of WordPress 4.7.4, started facing a problem. As soon as they insert target=”_blank” into a hyperlink, WordPress automatically adds another mysterious code (at least for SEO guys) which is – rel=”noreferrer noopener”. Now the commotion is if it will disrupt the SEO point or not? Continue reading as I researched on the matter and followed various SEO and Coding communities, took views from people involved and found an actual answer to the issue!

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Hardening WordPress Security: Tutorial for beginners

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With the growing impact of Internet on all facets of life, websites are increasingly dealing with private and sensitive customer data. A security breach can lead to your website getting hacked. It can result in a major security lapse for well-established businesses. It could potentially lead to irreparable damage to your reputation. Website developers need to understand security issues and take steps towards hardening WordPress security. As a web developer, you need to be able to assess the risks you’re facing. WordPress security is a complicated topic. In this article, we help you gain an overall better understanding of WordPress security. We also explain techniques to minimise and manage the security risks to your WordPress website. Most of these techniques are general and also, can be used for other Content Management Systems like Joomla, Magento etc.

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WordPress Functions Cheat Sheet: The Quick & Handy Guide for Developers

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Most WordPress themes and plugins look for ways to create lists of posts based on multiple conditions and criteria. You often need to determine what you need on a page and pulls posts accordingly. You may also need to use other information from the requests if you wish to create optimized pages. The WordPress database stores all data for posts, pages, comments, categories, tags, custom fields, users, site URLs etc. If we need more information on these then we need a way to extract this from the database. Writing direct SQL queries is not easy and not recommended. In this cheat sheet, we primarily look at the WordPress functions that provide an easy and reliable way to work with the database.

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Graphic Design Software (2024)

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6 Essential Graphic Design Software for Beginners

Graphic Design Software are the backbone of creators as world is turning to visuals. The real task is of graphic and web designers to make the dream turn into reality. It is possible with the best graphic design software.

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Dreamweaver Alternative: Microsoft Visual Studio Code – Free and Open Source for Windows, Linux and Mac

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Dreamweaver, launched around two decades back, was one of the big Adobe releases till date. Packed with a heap of functionality and smart features, it took the web designing industry by storm. Only price users had (still have, though) to pay for this all-in-one package is its hefty subscription fee. With time, however, a lot of open-source Dreamweaver alternative tools came up which gave the paid ones a run for their money (literally speaking), but were soon overhauled for some reason or the other.

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SEO vs SEM vs SMO vs SMM: Which one is best for you?

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For some of us, SEO, SMO, SEM, and SMM, might as well be gibberish, however, these are the terms that lead to an increase in traffic and ultimately money. Falling under the umbrella term of Internet Marketing, these are some acronyms that you need to know and understand before you dive into experimenting with them.

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WordPress Settings API: Creating Custom Theme Options Yourself

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As a Theme Developer/Designer, you must always be thinking about what additional you can provide to your customers or clients. Well, the answer is  Custom Theme Options! Yes, you can customize your theme with WordPress Settings API which helps users with options to seamlessly modify its appearance. This is what you need right now and stay ahead in the game.

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Create SEO Friendly Images For WordPress: Optimize Images For Web

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Do you know optimized images for the web will increase the chances of a better SEO ranking for your website?  Understanding image optimization and the techniques for creating SEO-friendly images can be really helpful. This guide includes the tested and tried methods to optimize your images. So, without any further ado, let’s dig deeper and find about them. Here we go!

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Squarespace vs WordPress + TemplateToaster: The Solo vs The Fusion

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WordPress, the first thing that strikes in our minds every time we think of website building. WordPress is an immensely popular open source Content Management System(CMS) and is very intuitive. But, you need to have a good knowledge of coding to explore the possibilities to the fullest i.e. you need to be an expert or hire one to bring the best out of it.

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Google AMP: WordPress Businesses MUST Implement it (Why?)

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What a WordPress Business needs in today’s world, is a decreased bounce rate, an increased SEO ranking and a genie that makes them both a possibility! Fast forward to the present world’s genie – Google, who made this possible with AMPs! When WordPress decided to jump on board, an already great scenario became perfect for users with a WordPress Business.

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