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WordPress Invite Facebook Friends Button Plugin

March 9, 2013 by Lee hodson 32 Comments

Add an Invite Facebook Friends button to any WordPress website with the Facebook Friends Inviter Plugin. This is a new free plugin from the stable of JournalXtra and VizRED. This WordPress plugin adds customizable text links and customizable graphic buttons that are visible to anyone who visits your WordPress site. Key benefits of the plugin include: Facebook Requests Graphic Button Facebook Requests Link Button Seamless friend requests selector FB Friends request widgets - as many widgets as you want to use FB Friend inviter shortcodes - as many shortcodes as you want to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Plugins Tagged With: Bring Friends to WordPress, Button Image, Button Text, Button Width, customizable, Dialogue Box Title, facebook, FB, Friends Invite WordPress, Invite Friends, plugin, site, visitors, WP FB Friend Requests

Make Genesis Themes BuddyPress Compatible

January 24, 2013 by Lee hodson Leave a Comment

The Genesis theme framework for WordPress has a BuddyPress compatibility plugin called Genesis Connect for BuddyPress. It is a free plugin, has been for a couple of months. Don't use it. It's not fully compatible with BP 1.6.3. Use the officially recommended BP Templates Pack plugin instead. If you do use Genesis Connect you might find it hard to delete groups, to get the Ajax Load More button to work correctly or you might find other compatibility issues. Another upside to the official template pack is that the templates look nicer than the Genesis Connect ones. You might need to work a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Genesis, Wordpress Tagged With: BP, BuddyPress, BuddyPress Widget Areas, content, Genesis Connect, plugin, Using Compatibility Templates

Top Tips For WordPress Users

December 16, 2012 by Lee hodson Leave a Comment

Every forum I help in, every client I speak with and every new WordPress user I meet invariably asks for WordPress help about at least one of these "how do I use WordPress" subjects. What follows is a small collection of tips, tidbits and help for WordPress users. This would have been a simple list but it kept growing and growing like Pinocchio’s nose the more I remembered the things I wish I knew when I began using WordPress. This post could have been spread over 5 posts but that wouldn't have been in the JournalXtra spirit of long post writing. Each subject section has a quick tips … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Wordpress Tagged With: content, css, links, Media Uploader, nofollow, plugin, plugins, post, posts, tips, Visual Editor

HowTo: Change the Language of WordPress

February 29, 2012 by Lee hodson Leave a Comment

So, you have built a WordPress site or WordPress multisite and now want the WordPress dashboard and site frontend to use Spanish or German or Italian or another language. It is easy. Whether you are looking to: Change the language used in the WordPress dashboard Change the WordPress backend language Change the WordPress front end language Change the language used by WP plugins, or Use a different language for your theme Follow the instructions shown here. How to Change the WordPress Language Visit http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-i18n/ Find the directory with the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EasyGuides, Wordpress Tagged With: content, plugin, plugins, wp

WordPress Security Hardening with .htaccess Rules

December 13, 2011 by Lee hodson 20 Comments

This way of protecting your website uses a combination of htaccess rewrite rules to harden WordPress sites at the server level, plugins to harden WP sites at the site level i.e internally, and plugins to detect changes to files and the database SQL injections. There's no need to be squeamish. Toughening WordPress is easier than it looks but there are caveats: No site or server can ever be 100% secure from malicious bots, hacker scripts or other non desirables. Denial of Service (DoS) attacks require a very different method of site protection. The site defence methods shown here have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Apache, Security, Web Development, Wordpress Tagged With: access, faq, plugin, plugins

Uninstall W3 Total Cache – The Proper Way

September 5, 2011 by Lee hodson 68 Comments

A few days ago I began the process of removing W3 Total Cache from all my blogs and replacing it with Quick Cache WP Super Cache. Why, you might wonder, would I do that. The simple answer is that W3 Total Cache conflicted one too many times with other plugins. I'm getting old and tired and I'm fast coming over to the idea that if a plugin's too much hassle to setup then it shouldn't call itself a plugin so much as it should call itself a nail in sanity's coffin. You'd expect it to be easy to remove W3 Total Cache. And it should be but it hooks its tentacles into a blog's htaccess file, … [Read more...]