Technology Blog, Wordpress Tips & Tricks, Thesis Theme Tutorial, Genesis Framework Guides.

Thesis 2.0 is Available for Download

Long awaited Thesis 2.0 theme is available for download since October 1, 2012 and comes packed with a bunch of new features, actually let me correct myself the whole theme itself has changed and new thesis theme has been designed to make customizing the theme as easy as possible (no coding required). The best three [...]

Speed Up WordPress with Nginx and PHP-FPM

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Wordpress Optimization Tips

Wordpress and Apache are the most common combination for setting up a blog but wordpress and apache are known to be slow and resource intensive but you can make wordpress websites really fast with optimized nginx and php-fpm.

Add Custom Post Types to RSS Feed

custom_post_type

Custom Post Types bring wordpress closer to other professional CMSes however it comes with its own caveats. Thank goodness that there are always hooks and actions available to save us in such situtations. One such scenario is by default custom post types are not included in Wordpress main RSS feed. Today we will learn how to add custom post types to main RSS feed of your website/blog with a simple piece of code

How to Remove Sidebar from Thesis

nosidebarstemplate.png

Customizing Thesis theme is really easy with powerful hooks and filters. Today we will learn a trick to hide the sidebars from some of the posts or pages while still showing it on other pages. It is really easy to do using “thesis_show_sidebars” hook.

How to Block WordPress Admin from Non Admins

Wordpress Optimization Tips

Sometimes there is a need to hide the wordpress admin dashboard from the non admin users. Today we will learn a quick tip to achieve that.

Track Post Views Without A Plugin–[WordPress]

Wordpress Optimization Tips

Tracking the post views is really necessary to determine which of your posts/articles are the popular ones. Even though there are a bunch of plugins available to do this task, you don’t necessarily have to penalize your wordpress blog performance by adding a plugin. This tip will teach you how to easily achieve this task without a plugin

How to Add Related Posts in WordPress Without Plugin

If you really want to engage your readers on your blog, it is a good idea to show related posts/articles when they are reading a post/article. Actually showing related posts is pretty easy and there are plenty of plugins available for this purpose like “Related Posts” etc. But as you know that adding every plugin [...]

How to Add Custom Page Titles in Thesis Theme

thesis.png

Thesis theme is one of the best premium themes available out there. It makes customizing the theme and SEO so freaking easy and you can do this all without fiddling with the theme core files. Today I will show you the trick to add custom titles for your category, tags and archive pages. For better [...]

How to Use Dropbox as CDN for WordPress

Dropbox Logo

In a previous post I showed you how to install Dropbox on Linux Server. Today we will learn how to use Dropbox as a CDN for WordPress blog. If you have not set up Dropbox on your Linux Server go ahead and follow the steps here. Steps to Setup CDN Log in to your Linux [...]

How to Use WordPress Custom Post Types

Wordpress 101 Tutorial

With version 3 WordPress came out with a really important feature which bridged the gap between WordPress and other popular CMS ( Content Management Systems). This feature was Support for Custom Post Types. I have been reading about Custom post types and taxonomies and learnt few of the things the hard way and decided to [...]