Category: Wordpress

WordPress comes with a visual posts editor which is nice but there  are some things WordPress can’t do. If the user has a good knowledge of HTML or CSS he/she create custom tables in WordPress. However, it may be a challenging tasks for many. Therefore we have researched and come up with a way in which you can create a nice tables in WordPress.

First thing is to Install the Plugin TablePress

Why Table Press ?

This is because Table Press allows the user to use and create beautiful tables.  The user can easily embedded to  the table or a post, page or a widget using a short-code. The table data can be edited using a spreadsheet like interface. The table can contain any type of data and even formulas that can be evaluated. An additional JavaScript library adds features like sorting, pagination, filtering and more for site visitors.

The tables can be exported/imported from Excel, CSV, HTML and JSON files.

In example, a comparison table created is shown

Step 1 : Click On Add New Table

Step 2 :  Create The Table And Copy The Short Code As Shown

Step 3 : Place The Short Code In The Post/Pages/Widgets

Creating regular backup is one of the most proactive thing you can do for your website. Backup can give you peace of mind and can save you from data disasters. Although some  hosting providers keep a backup depending on your plan some don’t. If you have taken a hosting plan that do not involve backup you can do the backup by yourself.

Here are some plugins you can use for backing up the files.

1. Backup Buddy

2. Updraft Plus

3. BackWPUp

BackupBuddy  is a popular premium WordPress backup plugin. It allows you easily schedule daily, weekly, or monthly backups. The plugin also allows the user to store automatic backups in Dropbox, Amazon S3, FTP and email.

Backup Buddy allows three plans  – Blogger Plan, Freelancer and Gold. Blogger Plan allows us to backup 1 sites. Freelancer allows backup of 10 sites and Gold Plan allows backup of unlimited sites.

The main advantage of using Backup Buddy is that it is not a subscription based service. Plus the service allows 1 GB of cloud storage for storing backups.

Updraft Plus

Updraft Plus is a free WordPress backup plugin. It allows complete backup of the WordPress site. The site can either be stored on the cloud or downloaded to your computer.

The plugin supports on-demand as well scheduled backups. You can store your backups  to Dropbox, Google Drive, s3, Racksapce, FTP, email and other cloud storage devices.

Updraft Plus has a premium version with add-ons to migrate or clone site, database search and replace, multisite support  etc.

BackWPUp

BackWpUp is a free plugin that allows you to create complete WordPress backup for free and store it on to cloud ( DropBox, Amazon, S3, Rackspace etc) or on to your computer. The BackWPup Pro version with priority support which allows  you to store backups to Google Drive and more.

Do you want to create a custom permalink for your pages, post, categories, tags and products ? This post will show you how to create custom permalinks for your entire site.

What is a custom permalink ?

WordPress comes with a nice option for creating permalinks. Permalink is actually the URL structure of your post or page. Permalinks are important in the sense that permalinks helps to give structure to the site links.

The permalinks also helps in search engine optimization as the site is structured. This helps the search engine crawl your page quicker. There are various methods to change the permalinks in your site.  They are as follows.

1. Change the Slug part in your post or page

In WordPress the word slug refers to the URL friendly part of your posts, page, category or tags. It is automatically generated when you create a new item.  For example, a post titled “10 benefits of drinking water on an empty stomach” would generate a post slug like 10-benefits-of-drinking-water-on-an-empty-stomach depending on which permalink structure you set.

 

The URL of the post will look like

“https://naturalwellnessblog.com/2018/08/05/10-benefits-of-drinking-water-on-an-empty-stomach/”

Clicking on Edit button will allow you to change the post slug. This will help you in changing the permalink. Using a more SEO friendly permalink will be good.

2. Create Custom Permalinks.

Changing the permalink in the post will not change the structure of the permalink.

In this example the URL is

“https://naturalwellnessblog.com/2018/08/05/10-benefits-of-drinking-water-on-an-empty-stomach/”

The Permalink structure for the URL is

“https://naturalwellnessblog.com/2018/08/05/sample post/”

Suppose you do not want the year/month/day in your URL . In that scenario you can  customize the permalink

Click on Settings > Permalinks > Custom Structure to maintain your own custom permalink.

Permalinks for Categories and Tags

You can also change the permalink structure of categories and tags.

Go to Settings >Permalinks

Change category base

For example here the category base is set to  “nwb”  The URL for wellness category will appear like this.

Permalinks for Products

If you have online store you can change your permalinks too.

In this way you can customize your permalinks.  One of the main advantages of custom permalinks is that once the permalink is set the permalinks of the entire site are automatically changed. Therefore, you have to be careful while using this option of customizing permalinks.

 

Do you want to remove the Powered By WordPress Footer Links ? After setting up your site the most common thing you may want to do is to remove the default links and replace it with your own site Links.

Removing WordPress Powered by Links

Footer.php Method  ( Learn Coding Online )

This is one of the best methods to remove the WordPress footer code from your website.

Go to Appearance >Editor you will see Theme Files in the right-hand side of the WordPress  site panel. After that go to Footer.php. Search for the words “Proudly Powered By WordPress” or “Powered By WordPress”. After locating the code you can proceed with deleting the code.

CSS Method

If you have less coding knowledge or if you find it difficult to locate the appropriate files go to Appearance> Customize> Additional CSS

After that click on Additional CSS. Once you click on Additional CSS the following screen appears. Now place the code

.site-info { display: none; } as shown in the screen. The Footer Link will disappear immediately.

Another method is to Go to Appearence -> customize-> Theme Settings-> Footer

Remove the code from the footer.

It is always recommended to use the footer.php method to remove the Powered By Links. However, you can use the Additional CSS method if the previous method becomes difficult to implement.

A huge chunk of the web content consists of images. However, not many of us optimize the images to fit to our needs.

At first upload an image file in WordPress. The image meta deta can be seen on the right hand side. 

Image Title

This is another attribute added to the image tag in HTML. This tag appears in the image container and is used to provide title for the image.  The title is displayed once you hover the mouse over the image.

Alt Text

Alt. Text is an attribute added to the image tag in HTML. This tag appears in the image container when the image cannot be displayed. It helps search engine know what the image is about.  The alt. text is useful if the image cannot be found.

Caption

This is the text you want to display with your image. Depending on you theme it will be displayed inside image border or outside the image.

Description

This is the description you store in the description field of your image. Like you want to give some long meaning to the image you can use the description.

You can now edit the image meta deta.