Step 1: Adding A New Widget Area First thing we need to do is add our new widget area. To do this you will need to open the function.php file (or create one and put in into your theme folder if you don’t have one yet) and add this bit of code:
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10 Ways to Use .htaccess to Speed Up WordPress
Recently I’ve become more and more interested in the .htaccess file as a way to speed up and protect your site. Previously here on WPShout I’ve written an “A to Z of WordPress .htaccess Hacks”, which has been a very popular post, and today we’re going to look at ten easy methods to speed up …
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wp Using Permalinks
Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual weblog posts, as well as categories and other lists of weblog postings. A permalink is what another weblogger will use to link to your article (or section), or how you might send a link to your story in an e-mail message. The URL to each post should …
WordPress / Blogs Offline Editing
There are several desktop applications you can use to write and publish content for your WordPress.com blog, even without being connected to the internet. You may hear this referred to as “offline editing.” We support the major posting standards, such as the MetaWeblog API, so you should be able to use most applications that you …
How To Automatically Make URL Clickable on WordPress
There are a time we need to put some URL on our WordPress content and make this content clickable. We need to added the link manually or using WYSIWG menu. And this is real pain if we must do this each time we add URL. Did you know that, WordPress offering functions to make this …
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WordPress Plugins and Widgets
Top WordPress Plugins and Widgets The wordpress plugins are arranged broadly by category of usage. As far as I know, all these plugins are compatible with the latest WordPress 2.5 version. Please feel free to suggest great plugins in comments that I can add to this list.