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How to Automatically Deploy WordPress Theme Changes using GitHub and Deploy

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Do you want to automatically deploy WordPress theme changes to your website? Most professional web developers use a version control system like GitHub or BitBucket and automatically deploy their changes to staging or live site. In this article, we will show you how to automatically deploy WordPress theme changes using GitHub and Deploy. Why Use Version Control System for WordPress Theme Development? First, we need to understand what version control means: … a system that records changes to a file or set of files over time so that you can recall specific versions later http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-About-Version-Control In other words, every time we change a WordPress theme template, image or CSS file, a version control system keeps track of these changes. At particular points, we can label (commit) a batch of changes. If those changes cause an issue, we can revert (or roll back) to an existing ‘version’ of our WordPress Theme. Git is a common … [Read more...] about How to Automatically Deploy WordPress Theme Changes using GitHub and Deploy

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How to Add a Custom Database Error Page in WordPress

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You ever remember seeing a screen like Error Establishing a Database Connection on your site. This can happen for various reasons, but often users don’t know that their site is down. Also that page itself looks pretty ugly in itself. In this article, we will show you how to customize your database error page in WordPress. We will also show you how to setup a notification for every time your website goes down due to a database error. Open a new file and save it as “db-error.php”. Paste the following content inside that. Then upload the file in your /wp-content/ directory. <?php // custom WordPress database error page header('HTTP/1.1 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable'); header('Status: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable'); header('Retry-After: 600'); // 1 hour = 3600 seconds // If you wish to email yourself upon an error // mail("[email protected]", "Database Error", "There is a problem with the database!", "From: Db Error Watching"); ?> <!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> … [Read more...] about How to Add a Custom Database Error Page in WordPress

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How to Display Ads Only to Search Engine Visitors in WordPress

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From our experience and research of many industry experts, it seems that Search Engine visitors are more likely to click on targeted advertisements then your regular readers. In this article, we will share a technique that will let you make more money from your blogs by simply displaying ads to your Search Engine Visitors ONLY. Whereas your regular visitors do not see these ads. This works very well with targeted Pay-Per-Click (PPC) ad units such as Google Adsense . Note: The technique shown in this article can be used to display other content aside from ads that targets Search Engine visitors for your site. Perhaps a special discount code, welcome message, etc. First thing you need to do is open your functions.php file and paste the following code: $ref = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; $SE = array('/search?', 'images.google.', 'web.info.com', 'search.', 'del.icio.us/search', 'soso.com', '/search/', '.yahoo.'); foreach ($SE as $source) { if (strpos($ref,$source)!==false) { … [Read more...] about How to Display Ads Only to Search Engine Visitors in WordPress

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WPBundle has a SALE Going ON that You Should Not Miss!

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About 48 hours ago, we sent out a newsletter update to our followers regarding a WPBundle Deal that is going on at Mighty Deals . It was limited time only and would have ended last night, but due to Popular Demand, the deal has been extended for another 72 hours. So you are probably wondering what the heck is WPBundle? Well, the famous Liam McKay of WeFunction launched a package deal of WordPress themes in collaboration with WooThemes. The package included 10 amazingly well design WordPress themes along with a bonus icon set. They set the price of $250 for the bundle (about $25 for each theme which is more than a fair price for the quality of the theme). But somehow Walter Apai from Mighy Deals managed to get this amazing bundle on his daily deal site for only $89 (65% OFF). When we saw that, Syed was like HOLY ****! This is CRAZY. This literally gets you each theme for under $10. Thinking these are some cheap crappy themes? Liam McKay has a reputation for producing only high … [Read more...] about WPBundle has a SALE Going ON that You Should Not Miss!

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Top 10 WordPress Profanity Filters and Spam Blocking Plugins

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Spam and profanity are a big problem for anyone with a WordPress site. Whether yours is a simple website with a few pages or a multi-user platform that hosts tons of user-generated content, you need to be wary of profanity and spammers for two major reasons: Profanity will scare away prospects leaving you with a thinner bank balance. Spammers will instantaneously hurt your SEO rankings in Google and other search engines Depending on the type of website (or community) you run, profanity may or may not be a problem. But excessive use of cursives and adult language will decrease your online sales and your potential to attract viable partners. That’s right; companies will think twice about collaborating with you if your website is overly profane. Spam on the other hand will hurt your credibility with search engines as well as human web visitors. Credibility is your online currency – lose it and you lose business. This guide will reveal five profanity filters and five spam plugins … [Read more...] about Top 10 WordPress Profanity Filters and Spam Blocking Plugins

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