Please keep in mind that you need to backup your wordpress database periodically to prevent your data lose in case of bad plugin installation or an attack by hacker. So do you know how to backup and restore your wordpress database? If you don’t, let me show you how.

DISCLAIMER: I will not going to hold responsible in any way should you encounter problems like loss of database and entire blog/website along the way. It worked excellently well for me.

How to Backup Your WordPress Database

1. Download and install WordPress Database Plugin and active this plugin.

2. In your wordpress dashboard, go to Tools > Backup

3. Under Backup Options, select “Download to your computer” and click on “Backup Now” button.

How to Restore Your WordPress Database

1. Log into your FTP account and delete everything in the /wp-content/cache directory.

2. Log into PHP MyAdmin and select your wordpress database.

3. A list of all of the tables contained in the database will be shown. Select all the tables and select the Drop option to delete them permanently.

4. After wordpress database is empty, it is time to upload your database by clicking Import tab.

5. Locate of the text file and then click “Go” button to import your wordpress database.

TwiBadge is a wordpress plugin to show your Twitter badge with easy personalization, it display all your tweets and replies from twitter.com/home. Apart from that, this plugin also came with a “follow” button which allows visitor to follow on your twitter.

Below is some features of this plugin:-

• Integrate Twitter and WordPress seamlessly
• Show Twitter badge as a WordPress widget
• Support flash interactive widget
• Easy personalization, no coding knowledge is needed
• Support shortcode
• Support non-widget theme

There are 2 ways to exclude certain categories from your blog, one is use wordpress plugin named Advanced Category Excluder. This plugin was born because there was a no other real alternative to enable content sparationd and some CMS like functionalities in WordPress. The main goal was, to enhance WordPress’s functionalities, to hide some unwanted categories, from defined parts of the blog.

The alternative way is without plugin, you can add the below code inside the loop then it will work.

<?php
if ( have_posts() ) : query_posts($query_string .'&cat=-1,-2'); while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
?>

If you want to put the caption under your images, then you can make use of Image Caption wordpress plugin. This plugin extracts the title or alt attribute from images within your blog post and generates a neat caption directly underneath those images. Apart from that, it also supports custom CSS styling for captions.

There are 2 ways to highlight author’s comments, one is use highlight author comments wordpress plugin, another idea is without wordpress plugin. If you don’t want to use wordpress plugin to highlight author’s comment, you can follow the below few simple steps.

First, you need to open styles.css and add the following into this file.

.authorstyle { background-color: #B3FFCC !important; }

Second, open comments.php, find and locate the following code.

<li <?php echo $oddcomment; ?>id="comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>"></li>

And then replace with

<li class="<?php if ($comment->user_id == 1) $oddcomment = "authorstyle"; echo $oddcomment; ?>"></li>

Please note that you must change 1 to the user id of the author. Thanks to Matt Cutts for this tutorial.

You can set the order of the pages for wordpress, the order of the pages are sorted by ascending. If you want to control the order of how things are displayed for pages, you can use My Page Order wordpress plugin. How does it work? This plugin gives you a simple interface that allows you to arrange the order of your static pages. It uses and sets the same field in the database as WP does so if you have set an order before it will be preserved.

No people like their images of their blogs being hotlink in other places, because this will increase your bandwidth usage and slow down the speed of your blog. In order to avoid your images being hotlink by other people, you can use Hotlink Protection wordpress plugin to protect it.

How It Works

• Referrer check if someone requests an image from your blog. If the referrer is not empty and not your blog the request is redirected to an information image
• The image urls in the feed are replaced by an alternate url. This url is not protected by a referrer check so online feedreaders get the image

What It Not Does

• It doesn’t protect the images in the feed. So hotlinking the image urls from the feed is possible. But in my opinion it is nearly impossible to protect this images without breaking some online feedreaders.
• It doesn’t prevent someone from downloading your images and placing them on their own webspace

Want to make your images on the posts with shadow? Yes, you can use a wordpress plugin named WordPress Shadows to add shadows to a range of objects. Currently supported are images, divs and blockquotes.

A very short post to introduce this plugin, I hope you don’t mind! @@

After The Dateline just like a MS Word spell checker, it can be used in wordpress as plugin that allows bloggers to check spelling of their posts. They use artificial intelligence and natural language processing technology to find your writing errors and offer smart suggestions.

So how to get started? Register for an API key and download a plugin. Once installed, After the Deadline adds a button that lets you check spelling, style, and grammar in supported applications.