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| Getting Started with Advanced Wordpress Customization Posted: 23 Oct 2012 12:42 PM PDT
 Wordpres is a widely used self hosted blogging platform. It's giving you amazing level of customizability unlike Blogspot and Wordpress.com. But I have noticed most of the blogger are not really utilizing its customizability to developer unique features and UI in their blogs. Main limitation here is lack of PHP and CSS knowledge. But Wordpress is well structured content management system. Even with very basic PHP/CSS knowledge you can do a lot. If you planning to customize your Wordpres blog like a BOSS, you have to prepare your tool kit. In this post I'm going to show to step by step configuration. The objective here is to get access to source code of your Wordpress blog and edit it using Adobe Dreamweaver.  Tools and Access Privileges
That's basically you need to start with. Before we move on take a back up of your home directory and database. Then install Adobe Dreamweaver and open it. Step By Step ConfigurationAs the first thing you have to open Files windows in Adobe Dreamweaver. For this you may go to Window -> Files or simply press F8. File window will appear as a sidebar in right most of the cases. Change its position as you comfortable. There you will be able to see a link named "Manage Sites". Click on that. In the popup window press new. • It will give you another window where you can configure remote site.  • In Side section you can give a site name and local site folder to save its file. Fill those fields as appropriate. • Then go to server section and press "+" sign there to add your server to this list.  • It will give you another panel where you can enter your FTP access details. Fill them as instructed by your hosting service.  • Finally press test to confirm connection. If everything is Ok you will get below message. If not go back and check access details again.  • Save everything and go back to Dreamweaver main dashboard. In file window you will be able to see your site just configure. Change the view to remote server to view source files in your blog.  • Before you start editing code better to get a copy of whole website to your hard drive. For that click on public_html folder and then click on get files button in file window tool bar.  • It will take some time depending on your internet connection speed. • Once it all done change the view to Local view. You will be able to see the local copy of web site. • Click on any file to view the source code. If you want to edit them, you can do it right here in Adobe Dreamweaver. • If you double click on a file when you are in remote view, it will be automatically fetched and open in Dreamweaver. • Once you done editing, save the file, select it and press Put files button. It will update the file I server. Once you do that changes will be reflected in your website immediately. Now your environment is all set to dig deep in to Wordpress source code, edit it and update those in server. Where to Start Editing?Here I'll give you a summary of Wordpress structure. • wp-admin: Here you can find files related to Wordpress administration back end. You better not touch them. • wp-includes: Here you can find files related to wordpress core functions, For now stay away from them. • wp-content: Here you can find your plugins and themes. • wp-content -> themes: In this folder you will find separate folder for each theme. Good point to start editing. Go to active theme and take a look at file structure. File Structure in a Wordpress Theme• 404.php: The error page • Archive.php: Archive page for all archives • Comments.php; Design of comment page • Footer.php: Footer section in every page • Fuctions.php: Stores important factions • Header.php: header in every page • Index.php: Home page • Page.php: Wordpress page • Search.php: Search page • Sidebar.php: Sidebar for all pages • Single.php: Wordpress post • Style.css: This is where you can find CSS rules. Now you can do minor changes to files, put them in serve and see how they reflect in your blog. Make sure you have a back-up in the case of disaster. For those experiments use a separate copy of Wordpress or low traffic time. What's Coming Up?Once you get familiar with Wordpress structure you can start editing its source code to come up with unique designs and features. Before that here is the To-Do list. • Learn basic PHP and CSS. • Take a look at Wordpress Codex. In upcoming posts I'll tell you how to create your own "Related Post List", "Most Commented Post List" and "Author Bio Box". Remember guys, there you will use your own code. In other words, it's unlimited space for creativity and customization. Total control of UI and functions will be yours, unlike downloaded plugins. See you soon! You may now like to read:  Malinda Alahakoon Malinda Alahakoon is a regular BloggingeHow reader and follower who loves to write on his blog NotesOfGenius. His passion for Blogging is what makes him stand out. You can connect with him @Google+      |
| Top 8 Viral eCommerce WordPress Plugins! Posted: 23 Oct 2012 11:49 AM PDT
All of you have noticed this thing, that the world of today is surely taken over by technology and the Internet. Everything you see out in the market on any where is digital and on line. It wont be for sure wrong saying that the world of today in which we live is the digital era, or being more precise the world and era of technology.  Digitalizing has taken almost in every field. From entertainment to the corporate sector, every thing has gone on line and the trend including computerised and the human effort that was greatly needed and professional did use to spend long hours doing their work has surely vanished. Before we move on you may like to read: Now if i talk about the commerce and the corporate sector in particular, technology has surely advanced in this thing to. And if i talk of today's trend, its the "eCommerce" instead of the old "commerce". Not only for the corporate sector, this thing has also become an area of interest for website designers, developers and entrepreneurs. And as we all use plug ins to make our work easy, my today's post include some of the top ecommerce plug ins that can make your commerce work pretty easy and interesting. Top Plug ins! So guys, here are some of the top ecommerce plug ins that can help in making and organising of your commerce work related. 1) Shopp Plugin This plugin costs around $55 and is regarded as a really good one as far as its working is concerned. It has within it a number of features that make working on it pretty interesting as it has a really cool interface and many more features. With all this it is also user friendly which also makes its a pretty good plug in to use for maintaining commerce work. 2) Simple Paypal Shopping Cart Plug in An interesting yet really useful plug in this is which delivers you the payment through paypal. Through this you can avail a number of features like you get to know about the bill and the shopping limits along with the products you already have in cart. A pretty comprehensive and complete plugin this is. 3) WP e-Commerce Plug in This is the best available pluginas far as your commerce maintenance is related. A really easy to use and install plugin with a number of features which include a wide array of payment options and seamless integration with the word press update system. must try this plug in as it gives the best results you desire to have. 4) eShop Plug in This is the best tool as far as shopping is concerned as it allows you to make a fully fledged shopping cart in minutes. With this it connects you with a number of payment and shipping providers and not only this, you also get confirmation emails automatically regarding your payment confirmation and shipment delivery. All work done by just a single plug in Before we move on you may like to read: 5) WP Auctions Plug in This plug in gives you the provision of auctioning as it gives you a platform through which you can buy and purchase goods. Through this you can make your own auction websites and improve your auctioning and auctioning skills. 6) PH Purchase Plug in This plug in helps you to keep a record of the sales you have along with the whole record. Along with this it gives a wide payment options and the most safe and secure way of working. Through this you can not only maintain it really well but also stay safe and make the desired work more interesting. 7) Firestorm Ecommerce Plug in Yet again the most up to date plug in that provides you with complete marketing solution as its features include a complete shop cart through which you can easily buy and sell stuff. It is fully customizable with the most safe and secure encryption. An all in one plug in this is folks. 8) Quick Shop Plug in This is a unique yet a complete plug in which can be used by people who wish to keep things straight and simple. It can be used for just simply adding stuff you need to sale or purchase as this plug in performs this work flaw less with simple installation process. So these were some of the best and top eCommerce plug ins that you can use in order to make your work even more interesting, catchy and easy. Do provide us with your positive feedback folks. You may also like to read:    |
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