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Practical Tips from Top WP Pros

Recently Siobhan McKeown shared some advice from the WordPress community to beginners. But what if starting out is already a dim memory? What if you’re already so immersed in the world of WordPress that you dream of Trac and you bore your partner with talk of your latest achievement with custom post types? Here are some tips from WordPress pros from across the community. Many of the tips cover development, but there’s also advice on business, running your website and, of course, getting involved with the community.

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Inserting Widgets With Shortcodes

The shortcode ability of WordPress is extremely underrated. It enables the end user to create intricate elements with a few keystrokes while also modularizing editing tasks. In a new theme, Daniel Pataki decided to look into adding widgets anywhere with shortcodes, and it turns out that it isn’t that difficult. He will be looking at the widgets object and shortcodes without delving into too much detail about how and why they work.

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Create An Embeddable Content Plugin For WordPress

WordPress is one of the most deployed content management systems around. One of the main reasons is the number of plugins available and the ease with which we can use the system. It is not uncommon to find websites using tens of plugins to accomplish various tasks and functions. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could share your site content with other websites! You may have a need to share advertisements, product information or, if you are a designer, your photo gallery. Whatever the reason, this article will show you a way to create an embeddable content plugin to share your WordPress content with other websites.

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Utilizing User Roles In WordPress

Roles have been an integral part of WordPress for quite some time now — many functions associated with managing them have been in place since version 2.0.0. Despite this longevity, they are rarely utilized which is a shame since they allow for the easy setup of custom user types (and also have the ability to micro-manage them). In this article, you’ll learn everything you need to utilize user roles in WordPress and make the most of this incredible built-in functionality.

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Optimize Your WordPress Site to Load Faster

Compared to other platforms, WordPress is pretty fast. However, you can still make it run even faster. A fast loading WordPress site not only gets love from people, but also from Google. Here you can look at 4 useful optimization tips that you can implement right now and get your site running faster than ever before. 

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Creating a Responsive Header in WordPress 3.4

Among all the new features and improvements that the recent WordPress 3.4 release has introduced, there is a hidden gem. The Custom Header Image feature has been supported by WordPress for some time, however previously its fixed dimensions made it too immobile to be of much use in the age of responsive design. The new release makes it flexible and introduces easier and cleaner code for this popular option. As theme developers you can now go further, taking into consideration the need to optimize for mobile visitors.

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Create an Author Comments Feed in WordPress

In recent years blogs have become so popular that and they’re one of the most common ways people get their daily dose of information. It’s not possible for a single person to provide quality content everyday. As a result, major websites are accepting  guest authors to provide quality content on a regular basis. Authors have to view comments of each post regularly and Rakhitha Nimesh can tell you that is very hard if you have written a large number of posts. In this tutorial he is going to ease this task by creating an author comments feed for the comments of all posts written by a single author. Then you will be able to view all the comments in one place. So Lets get started.
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How to Backup WordPress Sites to Dropbox

What would happen if all of the hard work you put into your website was all wiped away by a hacker or malicious virus of some kind? It would be difficult to find the motivation to start all over unless you have a backup of some kind. Using your already established Dropbox account, several options are available to Backup WordPress Sites to Dropbox. To take out some of the work out of backing up your site, below we will show some ways to automate the process and save the backup to Dropbox.

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Implement Google Search in your WordPress

There’s no disputing the fact that WordPress is a fantastic piece of software, but one thing it’s never been very good at is search. WordPress has provided its own search functionality for years, but the sad truth is it just isn’t up to scratch; search results are sorted by date rather than relevance, which is practically useless in sites with a lot of content. So how can we improve the search results on a WordPress site? There are plugins you can install to get better results — Relevanssi is a good option if you want to go down this route. However, if you really want to provide the best possible search results on your site, who better to turn to than the king of search – Google.

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Converting a Web Template into a WordPress Theme

Many users are usually not interested in the development process and only want an end product that is painless and flexible enough to allow additional features as the website grows. WordPress gives you that edge. However, before you can port your existing website or template into WordPress, you need to have a basic understanding of both HTML and CSS. WordPress uses PHP function calls to retrieve or call data elements. To make editing easier, you also need some fundamental knowledge of how PHP works.

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