Do you have to reboot your computer to switch it between Windows and Linux now and then? Then you know that those reboots slow down your productivity.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to install a Linux operating system Xubuntu under your Windows OS using VirtualBox and save yourself some time.
After installing a local WAMP server and trying to access your phpMyAdmin, you may encounter the error:
#1045 Access Denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES).
This may happen if your root@localhost database user was not granted the necessary rights to access the database. Or if you provided a wrong password.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to solve this error for the WAMP local server using phpMyAdmin.
Spam is more than an irritation. It can reduce your productivity. Sometimes the spam prevention can be as bad as the spam itself, making your visitors spot similar images, do maths sums or answer questions to prove that they are human.
This can put people off interacting with your website. Fortunately, WordPress has plugins that can handle spam transparently, without creating irritation to either you or your visitors. In this blog post, you will take a look at two of them.
Nick Croft has just published the "Genesis Explained" book, which is a developers guide to the most popular theme framework in WordPress.
Nick worked as a full-time support person for Genesis, before moving on to work as a developer on the framework. He later became a SaaS architect for the Rainmaker Platform, built on Genesis. Even before he literally wrote the book, he wrote the figurative book on Genesis. Nick is also a core contributor to Genesis and has multiple, popular Genesis plugins.
Follow Nick on Twitter at @nick_thegeek and check out his personal site at NickGeek.com.
Today, I'm delighted to announce the official launch of "WooCommerce Explained".
This book will teach everything you need to know to make a WooCommerce site. And, it will do it in plain English, with a simple step-by-step approach.
We've partnered with Patrick Rauland for this book. Patrick was project lead at WooCommerce and currently helps to run WooConf, the official developers' conference.
WooCommerce is the most popular eCommerce platform on the web and is capable of selling anything, whether it's physical products, digital products or services. If you want to spend less time struggling with complex instructions, and more time building sites that make you proud, this is the book for you! This book is over 250 pages long and is packed with WooCommerce knowledge.
The old-fashioned technique to create icons used to be manually cropping images to work as icons.
This was extremely time-consuming. Now Google's Font Awesome icons solve this issue.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to place a Font Awesome icon in your Photoshop web document by simply typing in the icon's name.
Sometimes we're able to give really clear advice: "Do this!" or "Don't do that!"
This is not going to be one of those blog posts.
Drupal gives you the ability to re-use fields. If you have an "Image" field, you could choose to use that same field on every content type on your site.
However, it's not always clear whether re-using fields is a good idea. Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't.
Here's an overview of the advantages and disadvantages to consider before re-using Drupal fields.
You probably know that WordPress makes it easy to embed social media in Posts and Pages.
But did you know that you can easily embed snippets from WordPress posts and WooCommerce products in other content, using just a URL?
Here's an overview of how WordPress allows you to share posts on other sites (and even your own site).
Magento and WooCommerce are both huge players in online selling.
When you're deciding on an online sales channel, how do you choose between these two titans of ecommerce?
Both have their advantages and disadvantages, so let's take a look and compare them.
WordPress themes makes it possible to give your users control of many aspects of their site's designs.
One of the most common design features in themes are featured images. Many bloggers love to use large, high-quality images for their posts.
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to add featured image support in a custom WordPress theme.
WordPress makes adding videos easy. However, many WordPress users don't realize that they can make their videos more attractive.
In particular, it often helps to add a preview image to your videos. An eye-catching preview image can really draw attention to your video. If you allow the preview image be chosen automatically, you can often end up with a snapshot taken at a bad moment in the video.
Please note, this will only work with videos that you have directly uploaded and stored in WordPress. This won't work with WordPress YouTube, WordPress Vimeo, or WordPress Wistia videos.
This tutorial will show you how to add a custom preview image to your WordPress videos.
Are you planning to add a website to your brick-and-mortar store? If Yes, then running your site on Magento could be one of your best choices.
You have several options to install Magento. In this tutorial, you will learn what you need to know before installing it.
Did you know that WordPress offer the ability to password-protect the posts that you write?
This feature doesn't require a plugin and is a core feature of WordPress.
In this short, I'm going to show you how to create protected posts. Each WordPress post will need it's own password, so this won't work for protecting a whole site.
A new law in France is threatening to cause major headaches for e-commerce platforms.
First off, thanks to Olivier Karfis for the heads up on this, and the links that helped me understand what's going on.
This started two years ago because French politicians decided to combat VAT fraud.
So you have everything ready for launch and your site is sitting on your local computer. You're ready to move WordPress to the "real" server and start publishing.
Here's a step-by-step tutorial on how to export and import your data base, and get WordPress running on the new server.
WordPress is the key technology tool for many companies. They use it for marketing, e-commerce, CRM and 1,001 other tasks. So, it's not surprising that a lot of WordPress users also rely on it for project management.
After all, if you allow customers to pay you on your WordPress site, or raise a support ticket there, why not also collaborate on projects using the same platform.
In this overview, we'll introduce you to 5 of the best WordPress project management plugins. All 5 have free versions available on WordPress.org. You can download them, test them, and see if they're a good fit for you and your projects.
