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

Last updated on April 22, 2021Param Chahal

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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.

Automatic WordPress Updates: Guide to Configure and Manage Effortlessly

Last updated on April 22, 2021Lucy Barret

In WordPress, new updates (core updates, Plugin updates, Theme updates and Translation file updates) keep rolling out from time-to-time. All these updates are aimed at keeping your website safe from online security vulnerabilities and provide latest features to maintain the stability of the site. Sometimes, your WordPress site doesn’t respond well to new WordPress Updates. The themes and plugins you have installed on your site may fail to accommodate new updates. As a result, the loopholes, security vulnerabilities, bugs remain intact that may harm your site in the long run.

How to Set Up SSL Aabsolutely Free Using Let’s Encrypt

Last updated on September 2, 2022Param Chahal

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How to set up SSL using Let’s Encrypt? If you also been on the lookout for free and trusted SSL certificates and wondering how to install them? Then you are at the right place. Here in this guide, I will unveil how to set up free SSL using Let’s Encrypt. So, let’s dive in!

Graphic Design Software (2024)

Last updated on March 11, 2024Param Chahal

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.

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

Last updated on September 30, 2020Param Chahal

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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.

Sell WordPress Themes/Plugins Online: 6 Killer Actionable Methods

Last updated on December 4, 2020Param Chahal

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The simple truth is that even if you may have created the best WordPress theme/plugin in the market, it may never sell! The sooner you accept this truth, the sooner you will make money.

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

Last updated on September 30, 2020Param Chahal

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.

Web Development Tools

Last updated on April 21, 2021Deepak Singla

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knowing all web development tools can help you build a strong online presence. Have you have ever landed on a website that looked spectacular with some amazing features, and then you thought of designing a similar website? Well, if so, you are at the right place. A well-designed and well-performing website is all about the tools you have used to create your website. Also, it involves tools you are still using to maintain your website. So, in this guide, I will show you the best and most widely used web development tools to establish your website. So, let’s get busy!

Opt-in Forms: The Evolution of Pop-ups to Capture Email Leads

Last updated on April 19, 2021Param Chahal

You’ve got mail!

What began as a happy thought, web marketers turned it into dread, and emails found themselves headed straight towards spam. Not a happy thought for marketers that had been tiptoeing the line of annoyance. Then came opt-in forms and all was well in the world again.

WordPress Contextual Help: Adding Custom Help Text to Admin Menu Screens

Last updated on September 30, 2020Deepak Singla

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The WordPress built-in Administration Panel contains a Contextual Help section. This provides information to the user about the navigation and different settings displayed in the Admin Panel. A plugin usually adds additional Administration Panels to WordPress. As a web developer or web designer, you can provide additional support by providing contextual help for the plugin menus.

Create SEO Friendly Images For WordPress: Optimize Images For Web

Last updated on April 21, 2021Param Chahal

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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!

5 Best WordPress Redirect Plugins and How to install (2024)

Last updated on December 14, 2023Deepak Singla

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Are you worried about the broken links and deleted posts on your WordPress website?? Well, now you don’t have to Here we have a list of the best WordPress redirect plugins and how you can install them.

Squarespace vs WordPress + TemplateToaster: The Solo vs The Fusion

Last updated on April 19, 2021Param Chahal

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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.

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

Last updated on April 19, 2021Param Chahal

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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.

Last updated on January 16, 2024Deepak Singla

Are you still manually updating the copyright year of your website footer? here I’m going to show you some of the approaches for updating the copyright year automatically without hassle

Email Address Harvesting: How do spammers gather private email addresses?

Last updated on November 16, 2023Param Chahal

Tired of sorting and deleting loads of Spam from your mail accounts. Do you wonder if you can put a stop to receiving Spam? Well yes, follow some simple rules and protect your email details from Email Address Harvesting.

List of Best WordPress Menu Plugins (2023)

Last updated on June 8, 2023Param Chahal

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Want to design multi-layered, sophisticated menus for your website? Building and styling website menus are easily accomplished with the WordPress Menu Plugins.

The WordPress Themes and Theme Frameworks provide an excellent system to design great-looking website menus. The modern Navigation Menus, however, seem to be strikingly different from the menus that were in use a few years back. The WordPress themes and customizations continue to provide menus that work with the theme concept. Mega Menus are the way ahead for larger sites with lots of pages for diverse products or services. With WordPress menu plugins you can add highly responsive, extremely attractive and device friendly mega menus into your websites.

SEO Landing Pages vs. PPC Landing Pages – Best Practices (2023)

Last updated on October 11, 2023Staff

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It makes sense to create landing pages on a regular basis for business and marketing reasons – targeting a very specific audience/niche, promoting a specific product or promotion, or just building traffic for a key term and converting visitors into customers based on their intent in their search.But the issue arises when you try to do too many things with one landing page. When someone lands on your site, for instance, selling coat hangers, and you try to sell them a coat. You have to get them looking for what it is it that you sell, and make sure the landing page gives them everything they need to make an informed decision.

Inkscape vs Illustrator: Which Works Better for Vector Graphics?

Last updated on February 12, 2024Param Chahal

Every time we think of an open source and free application, we always consider it inferior in comparison to the more popular and paid one. But, times has changed my friend, it is not the same anymore. The open-source community has grown wider and so has grown the possibilities of an open source tool that could at least match if not surpass the functionality of the more popular and paid tool. Inkscape is the result of one such development. It is a software for vector-graphic designing available for free. Let me compare Inkscape vs Illustrator (more popular and pricier tool) to prove its worth.

GIMP vs Photoshop Differences

Last updated on September 30, 2020Deepak Singla

Photo-Editing or Graphic Designing is a far-ranging category. Today, almost every image we come across is tailored or edited in some way. And, this is done with the help of designing tools. Now, which tool do we actually use at TemplateToaster you ask!! When we talk of designing tools, PHOTOSHOP is the undisputed king. It is the most popular tool out there in the market. But, it is not the only tool, there are a lot of others as well. The best alternative to PHOTOSHOP is GIMP, an open-source image manipulation program. We put our designers on a sticky wicket and asked them to compare GIMP VS PHOTOSHOP and tell us which tool out of the two, they prefer and why?? This is how they explained, by comparing GIMP and PHOTOSHOP on different grounds and metrics to settle the ambiguity.

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