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Create and Use a Favicon
Written by Bec on January 16, 2012 – 7:01 AM -
If you aren’t creating a favorite icon for your website urls, you should! The icon is saved to the surfer’s bookmarks and it’s a fact that people do become familiar with a site’s “icon/name brand” and will often click on it over a site that they don’t remember.
A favicon (short for “favorites icon”) is an icon associated with a website or webpage intended to be used when you bookmark the web page. Web browsers use them in the URL bar, on tabs, and elsewhere to help identify a website visually.
A favicon is a graphic 16 x 16 pixels square and needs to be saved as favicon.ico and uploaded into the root directory of your server. You can use a favicon with any WordPress blog where you have ftp access to the root directory.
Easity create a favicon with a graphics program that will allow the saving of .ico graphic files, such as The GIMP. There are also online services that will allow you to create a favicon for free, such as favicon.co.uk or Dynamic Drive, or HtmlKit. Just follow the instructions provided by the site, save your creation and then download the image file of the favicon.ico to your computer..
The image should be clear and is usually designed to match your blog image and/or content, a big task for something so small.
To prepare the image to be saved as favicon.ico:
- By cropping or adding space around the image, make the image square.
- Resize the image to 16 x 16 pixels.
- Save the file as favicon.ico.
Installing a Favicon in WordPress
If there is already an old favicon.ico file in your current theme’s main folder, delete it using FTP Clients.
- With an FTP Client, upload the new favicon.ico file into your current theme’s main folder.
- Upload another copy of your favicon.ico file to the main directory of your site (ie. http://example.com/favicon.ico). This will display the favicon in your subscribers’ feedreaders.
To see your new favicon, clear your browser’s cache. You may need to restart your browser in order to see the new favicon.
Tags: add favicon to wordpress, favicon generator, favorite icons
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Easy As 1-2-3 Gallery Builder for WordPress
Written by Bec on December 15, 2011 – 7:00 AM -
UUGallery creates fully customizable photo/video galleries in just three easy steps. In no time you’ll be creating the best looking galleries around with absolute ease, right from your wordpress dashboard! UUGallery auto-crops thumbs, resizes original images to fit your layout, and displays them in a fully customizable image viewer.
There are no complex settings, and the gallery templates are easily customized in any html editor. Just upload your gallery pics via FTP, click to insert your customized template, and publish! UUGallery generator does the rest! Save yourself hours of dirty work, this is as easy as 1-2-3!

Step1: Select and Insert your customized template to the WordPress writer.
Step2: Specify a URL to grab images from any FHG, or upload photos in a ZIP file.
Step3: Click Publish!
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New Video features:
1. Grabs videos from FHGs
2. Converts video to FLV automatically (or to AVI, MPG, WMV, etc).
3. Builds Embedded/Non-embedded video galleries.
4. Creates classic galleries (thumbs linked to videos)
5. Manual frame cropper (pic)
6. Builds Photo Galleries as well as Video galleries
Plus All of These General Features:
7. Automatic/Manual photo cropping
8. NEW Different thumb sizes within a gallery, adjustable image dimensions + quality
9. Built-in sharpening
10. Built-in template manager (pic inside)
11. Easily customizable gallery templates
12. Customizable thumb linker
You can select from 5 different gallery sources:
13. Grab galleries/videos from FHG’s and TGP’s
14. Grab a ZIP file from internet.
15. Fusker style
16. Upload galleries in a ZIP file though your browser.
17. Build a gallery from a folder uploaded to your server
Full-sized Image/Video Viewer:
18. Fully customizable, open-source Full-Sized image viewer
19. Set different banners for different galleries
20. Redirect a percentage of clicks to sponsor URL instead of showning next image ($$$)
It’s SEO Friendly:
21. Randomized alt tags for SEO purposes
22. Customizable thumbs and image files names
23. SEO friendly URL’s
24. Support for all WordPress versions
View Gallery layout samples and download a free 5 day trial of UUGallery >>
Tags: gallery generator, uugallery, Wordpress gallery plugin
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Free WordPress Mobile Theme Template
Written by Bec on December 7, 2011 – 7:00 AM -Have you been wanting to promote a site made specifically for mobile users? Or perhaps create a mobile blog site and turn it into a paysite? If so you may want to take a look at this free WordPress theme for Mobile Phones. This is a minimalistic theme that can be used by bloggers who want to target mobile phone users. This theme will fit perfectly in all the mobile phones (any resolution) and because of its light weight, will also reduce loading times.
There are three key features with this theme:
1. You can choose your own theme color from the theme options. (any color you want for your theme is just a click away)
2. You can define your own width for your theme. The theme can have 100% width if you want the theme to fit on every mobile phone, or you can define a fixed width in pixels to target special users.
3. The front page will dynamically create thumbnails for your posts.
You can preview and download this free WordPress Mobile Phone Template at Blog OH Blog. Just hit the Free Themes link on the top menu bar.
Tags: Blog OH Blog mobile phone theme, free mobile template, Wordpress cell phone theme, Wordpress mobile phone template
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How to Customize WordPress
Written by Bec on December 3, 2011 – 7:00 AM -
I’m sure there are many of you that aren’t designers or coders and therefore find it difficult to customize your WordPress themes. Well I came across a wonderful tutorial that you can download in pdf format and save it to use as a reference when you want to edit some part of a WordPress theme, be it the header, a widget, sidebar column or the footer. I found the tutorial on a site named appropriately enough: How To Customize WordPress! You can click here for the free pdf download. And a big thanks and a tip of the hat to the author, Dan Deceuster.
Tags: customization tutorial, how to customize wordpress
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How to Add Google Analytics to Blogs
Written by Bec on December 1, 2011 – 7:00 AM -
I found a wonderful article by Kimi on her blog.web6.org website that explains in exquisite detail, along with photos, of how to add the Google Analytics code to WordPress blogs and avoid installing another plugin that could slow down your blogs’ response time. Use Google Analytics to learn which online marketing initiatives are cost effective and see how visitors actually interact with your site. It can help you make informed site design improvements, drive targeted traffic, and increase your conversions and profits.
Easy to follow tutorial how to insert or put Google analytics code in your wordpress blog theme file.
Google analytics is one of several ways to track your blog’s visitors, like, where they come from, which search engine brings you the most traffics, or which referral websites your visitors come from, and many more.
The most useful is you will know how many visitors you receive a day or some specific period of times. I added my blog to Google Analytics right after submitting my sites to search engines, like Google,Yahoo, Bing, and Ask. The result will usually show after a few days.I have decided not to use any Google analytics plugins for this, because we can easily do it without plugin. Do remember, using too much plugins can slow down your page load, and sometimes buggy while upgrading your blog.
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Tags: add google analytics, Blog Traffic, google analytics code for wordpress
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How to Edit or Remove the Blogroll
Written by Bec on November 30, 2011 – 7:00 AM -This video tutorial on how to edit or remove your blogroll, and create new link categories works for version 3.0.1 and above. The tutorial was made by kimi who owns and runs Blog.Web6.org
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Free Adult WP Theme: Kazuno
Written by Bec on November 28, 2011 – 7:00 AM -Released in Sept. 2011 Kazuno is a 3 columns fixed width adult WordPress theme by AdultBlogTemplates.com. This adult WordPress template has theme options, featured categories, Twitter ready, etc. You can preview and download this, and about 10 other free adult themes, at AdultBlogTemplates.com
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Watching Out for Naughty WordPress Plugins
Written by Bec on November 23, 2011 – 7:00 AM -
It recently came to light that some plugin developer had managed to use a fake jQuery inclusion to steal clicks and re-route site visitors to a different URL.
Beware Fake jQuery Inclusions by WordPress Plugins in the Repo, an article by By Siobhan McKeown goes into great detail on just how this exploit worked. While this isn’t a WordPress hack it is a jQuery hack, and something we all need to be aware of when selecting WordPress add-ons. Just as we need to inspect the code we find in templates we use, we need to insure that other features we have blindly trusted in the past are also secure.
We received an email today from a WordPress user who wanted to alert us to a jQuery hack. At first, I’ve got to admit, I was a little bit sceptical but I thought it was worth looking in to. I was surprised by what I found.
We all love jQuery – sometimes I like to daydream about marrying it in some sort of exotic ceremony in Barbados. In fact, it’s so awesome that it’s become a little bit ubiquitous. There are so many plugins using jQuery that we’re totally used to finding it in them.
Normally a WordPress plugin will get jQuery from just a few places:
Google CDN
WordPress itself
Microsoft CDN
jQuery CDNBut what if you had a plugin that was getting it’s jQuery from http://j-query.org?
That seems pretty legit, right? I mean it’s got j-query in the damned domain! And when you visit it, you end up at http://jquery.org – the official site of jQuery.
Oh… wait…. http://j-query.org and http://jquery.org – they’re not the same, are they?
No, they’re not. And http://j-query.org isn’t even registered by the people at jquery. It’s registered with domains by proxy, and forwards to servers at Media Temple.
So it’s got to be suspicious when you find three WordPress plugins that all contain this piece of code:
Beware Fake jQuery Inclusions by WordPress Plugins in the Repo… Read the rest of the article
If you aren’t using Theme Check to inspect your wordpress THEMES (doesn’t check the jQuery if used in plugins), here’s a link to download it … Theme Check
Tags: jQuery hack, wordpress plugins exploited, wordpress security issue
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