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how to improve alexa ranking quickly for wordpress

When we talk about site ranking then first name comes in our mind is Alexa rank. We always measure our website success using Alexa Rank and google page rank. Alexa ranking is very important for SEO and Advertising purpose. There are many views and thoughts about increase the website ranking. But with wordpress there are some very nice tricks you can apply with your site and your site rank will increase.

how to improve alexa ranking quickly for wordpress

Here is very great wordpess plugins which will help your wordpress site to increase the Alexa rank. This plugin will add the alexa rank widget to your wordpress site.

WordPress website developers and users must install Alexa Rank Widget plugin to every wordperss site. It is very useful for SEO. It will show the your website alexa rank on your sidebar.

Alexa Rank Widget

how to improve alexa ranking quickly for wordpress

The Alexa Rank Widget easily allows to add widget in wp sidebar. This widget will give to control the website name how you want to show the alexa widget in your sidebar. using this plugin you will get show options for showing the Alexa rank in side bar. 1. Squre – Button (120 x 95) 2. Vertical – Vertical Banner (120 x 240)

As we in today’s date showing Alexa web ranking is important for SEO and for attracting your advertiser and viewer.

This information is good for site owner as well as viewer.

How alexa rank widget plugin will increase the rank?

On every page request alexa site will be informed by there API and every page request will be recorded to alexa site. Alexa collects the site information by there toolbar. Which you find on following link:

http://www.alexa.com/toolbar

This toolbar will collect all user information and site information. If this toolbar is not installed then your page request and views will not be recored on Alexa. “Alexa Rank Widget” will help you to record every page view and request on Alexa site. This will improve the website rank.

Here we given two major tips for, how to improve alexa ranking quickly for wordpress websites. We personally used above two tricks. many of wordpress users are using our alexa rank widget plugin, for improve alexa ranking quickly for wordpress blogs.

wordpress plugin WooCommerce review by our team

I tested many wordpress plugins and written review about wordpress plugins. WordPress and there ecommerce is very popular now these days due to power of SEO and easy to use. Many people are looking for wordpress e-commerce solution. There are many ecommerce solutions are in wordpress. Woocommerce is really famous and popular e-commerce solution. Here in this article I am writing wordpress plugin WooCommerce review.

Woocommerce is really famous and popular e-commerce solution. Here in this article I given wordpress plugin WooCommerce review which will be helpful for site.

Information about Woo-commerce

WooCommerce is a powerful, extendable eCommerce plugin that helps you sell anything. Beautifully.

Transform your WordPress website into a thorough-bred eCommerce store. Delivering enterprise-level quality and features whilst backed by a name you can trust. Say “hello” to the WooCommerce eCommerce plugin.

WooCommerce is built by the experienced folk at WooThemes who also offer premium eCommerce themes and extensions to further enhance your shopfront.

STRENGTH & FLEXIBILITY
WooCommerce is built using WordPress best practises both on the front and the back end. This results in an efficient, robust and intuitive plugin.
SMART DASHBOARD WIDGETS & REPORTS
Keep a birds-eye view of incoming sales and reviews, stock levels and general store performance and statistics all from the WordPress dashboard or go to the reports section to view stats in more detail.

FEATURES

Whether you’re operating a superstore selling thousands of products, or a just a sole trader selling hand made arts and crafts WooCommerce has you covered. You can read all about WooCommerce’ features on the WooCommerce website.

Payment Gateways, Shipping Methods and Integrations are important to any store – WooCommerce comes bundled with the following:

PayPal Standard Gateway – Accept credit cards and PayPal payments
Mijireh Checkout – Accept credit cards via Stripe, Authorize.net, PayPal, eWay, SagePay, Braintree, PayLeap, and more.
BACS, Cheque and Cash on Delivery – Simple offline gateways
Flat rate shipping – Ship your items using a flat cost
Free shipping – Ship for free, or require a coupon to enable
International delivery, Local delivery and local Pickup
Google Analytics – Powerful analytics, including eCommerce tracking
Sharedaddy and ShareThis – Let your customers share your products with their friends
ShareYourCart – Encourage your customers to share their purchases in return for a coupon

wordpress plugin WooCommerce review:

Easy to install and configure
API’s for this plugin is not fully helpful to developers.
It include more security to woo-commerce plugin
There are always issues with wordpress up-gradation
There are so many helpful wp plugins which will add more control to woo-commerce
It gives the payment gateway support which are really helpful
For creating the woo-commerce theme you need the extra knowledge
It integrate will any wordpres theme
As compare to other e-commerce wp plugin woo-commerce is really great as per usability
There are many useful addons of woo-commerce but they are paid.
Premium plugin is much better but that is paid version
Multiple shipping is missing in this plugin
Woo-commerce team will never gives you free support Until you buy something from them
For small e-commerce site woo-commerce wordpress plugin is best
Quite confusing when it comes to customizing the theme as per design
Admin UI is really easy to use and understandable
It has no support for older wordpress versions
There are so many wp developers who are struggling with this theme
If you need more customization then go for other plugin

Comments: For small e-commerce site it is a great solution. It is quite slow plugin.

Remove category slug wordpress from URL

Wp Developers are always looking for remove the category or blog slug from wordpress URL. We can very easily remove the blog word from wordpress blog URL. Many clients want to remove the category word from URL. There are some nice wordpress plugins which will help you to remove the category word from wordpress URL.

I am using wordpress for long time. When wordpress 3.0 launched with multisite functionality we started using wordpress 3.0. Removing blog and category slug is very important for many clients.

Earlier also I written following article. But unfortunatly following code is not working now in newer release of wordpress.

https://purabtech.in/remove-blog-word-permalink/

Following wordpress plugins are useful:

WP No Category Base

As the name suggests this plugin will completely remove the mandatory ‘Category Base’ from your category permalinks ( e.g. myblog.com/category/my-category/ to myblog.com/my-category/ ).

The plugin requires no setup or modifying core wordpress files and will not break any links. It will also take care of redirecting your old category links to the new ones.

Manual method

Just add following code into your .htaccess file which you find in wordpress root folder.
RewriteRule ^category/(.+)$ http://www.site.com/$1 [R=301,L]

My suggestion:

Do not use any plugin or code for removing the category slug. If your client forces you to remove the category word then use wordpress permalink setting section. You can change the category slug from there. Following Note is given by wordpress.

“If you like, you may enter custom structures for your category and tag URLs here. For example, using topics as your category base would make your category links like http://example.org/topics/uncategorized/. If you leave these blank the defaults will be used.”

You can keep any slug name instead of category word.

block proxy servers to access wordpress

WordPress is always very target for hackers. Hackers always use the proxy servers to access the wordpress websites. Hackers attack the wordpress sites using the proxy IP addresses and servers. Here Using small trick you can prevent the proxy server attack. This is very easy trick which can be used in every wordpress project.

block proxy servers to access wordpress

All proxy visits are not bad requests so First check the site access logs. If you are thinking Your site attacked by Hackers and proxy servers then only use the following code.

You just need to add following code into your .htaccess file. You can open your .htaccess apache configuration file from wordpress root folder.

# BLOCK PROXY VISITS
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP:VIA}                 !^$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:FORWARDED}           !^$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:USERAGENT_VIA}       !^$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X_FORWARDED_FOR}     !^$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:PROXY_CONNECTION}    !^$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:XPROXY_CONNECTION}   !^$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:HTTP_PC_REMOTE_ADDR} !^$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:HTTP_CLIENT_IP}      !^$
RewriteRule .* - [F]
</IfModule>

After adding above code you must check your wordpress site. Check the your every pages of your site. Check your sites pages on atleast on three PCs so you will sure about your site and above code.

Open your header.php file which you find in your wordpress theme folder.

Take backup header.php file first.

<?php if(@fsockopen($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], 80, $errstr, $errno, 1)) die("Proxy access not allowed"); ?>

Put above code in header.php file and check your site is working fine. There are so many articles written on same topic so you can check those also before making any changes.

best hosting providers for wordpress for themes

WordPress is highly used CMS in the world. When you want to create the website then you need to hosting. Many people are searching for wordpress hosting. Which is the most used and comfortable wordpress hosting providers. Here I created the Most popular hosting theme or wordpress hosting providers.

There are some hosting providers are really leader in hosting. They are having many many sites hosted to them and they have millions of satisfied customer. There are too many hosting service providers in the world. It is very hard too choose the correct hosting provider for wordpress.

Best Hosting providers for WordPress

Hostgator

HostGator is a leading provider of web hosting, reseller hosting, vps hosting, and dedicated servers. Over 8,000,000 websites trust HostGator for their web hosting needs.

Godaddy

The simplicity of WordPress meets the power of GoDaddy.

While WordPress makes it easy to create an amazing blog or website, our world-class Web hosting makes it just as easy to get the most out of your site. WordPress Hosting from GoDaddy keeps your site running smoothly, even when your latest post goes viral, by automatically spreading traffic spikes across multiple servers. Plus, our advanced performance and security means your site is lightning-fast and your visitors are safe.

Bluehost

Highly Customizable
Although best known as a blogging tool, WordPress is also a fully functional CMS and can even be used in e-commerce sites.Easy To Use
With great default designs and a library of professional themes, it’s easy to get a beautiful website off the ground in no-time.
Don’t know much about code? No worries. WordPress outputs standards friendly code for optimal performance and SEO.
Because of it’s power and versatility, WordPress has a loyal community of developers and designers to help and inspire you.

Laughing Squid

Laughing Squid offers reliable, scalable and secure cloud hosting services using Rackspace’s state-of-the-art Cloud Sites hosting platform. Our hosting plans include control panel access, full-featured email services (POP, IMAP & webmail), PHP 5.3, MySQL 5.1 and many other great features.

If you are looking to setup a blog running WordPress you’ve come to the right place. We are one of the web hosting companies officially recommended by WordPress for hosting WordPress blogs.

IntoVPS

IntoVPS provides reliable unmanaged VPS hosting at decent prices. VPS hosting packages are available in US and Europe. VPS hosting service with super-fast response. VPS hosting on premium hardware and network in London – UK, Amsterdam – Netherlands, Bucharest – Romania, Dallas – Texas, Fremont – California.

My Review

I personally used some of above hosting services for some time. I did not faced any with issue with above hosting providers. There support is nice and instant. WordPress installation and up-gradation is very easy with above hosting providers.

Earlier also I written about wordpress cheap hosting which is helpful to you.

https://purabtech.in/cheap-hosting-wordpress-blogs-sites/

how to add custom widget in wordpress theme

wordpress widget and sidebar is different things. Here in this article we will show you how to add custom widget in wordpress theme using your theme code.

Some years ago I searched for creating the widget in wordpress theme But I did not get the perfect answer. Every time I got code snippet of sidebar. Many WP developers are assuming widget means sidebar. wordpress widget and sidebar is totally different things. Here in this article I will show you how to create the wordpress widget using your theme code.

how to add custom widget in wordpress theme

You can put following code into functions.php file or you can create sperate file and just include that into functions.php file.

class RecentPostWidget extends WP_Widget
{
function RecentPostWidget()
{
$widget_ops = array('classname' => 'RecentPostWidget', 'description' => 'Displays a Recent post with thumbnail' );
$this->WP_Widget('RecentPostWidget', 'Recent Post and Thumbnail', $widget_ops);
}

function form($instance)
{
$instance = wp_parse_args( (array) $instance, array( 'title' => '' ) );
$title = $instance['title'];
?>
<?php echo $this->get_field_id('title'); ?>">Title: <input id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('title'); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('title'); ?>" type="text" value="<?php echo attribute_escape($title); ?>" />

<?php
}

function update($new_instance, $old_instance)
{
$instance = $old_instance;
$instance['title'] = $new_instance['title'];
return $instance;
}

function widget($args, $instance)
{
extract($args, EXTR_SKIP);

echo $before_widget;
$title = empty($instance['title']) ? ' ' : apply_filters('widget_title', $instance['title']);

if (!empty($title))
echo $before_title . $title . $after_title;;

// WIDGET CODE GOES HERE
echo "<h1>This is my new widget!</h1>";

echo $after_widget;
}

}
add_action( 'widgets_init', create_function('', 'return register_widget("RecentPostWidget");') ); ?>

Following is screen-shot of sample widget code which I used in functions.php file.

If you are looking for sidebar through theme then check following articles:
https://purabtech.in/create-multiple-widgets-wordpress-theme/
https://purabtech.in/add-sidebar-twenty-thirteen-wordpress-theme/

Fast Secure Contact Form wordpress plugin review

Contact form is necessary for every website and wordpress most popular CMS in the world. There are some very nice free wordpress plugins which are helpful to create the contact form. Here in this article I will exploring the experience with “Fast Secure Contact Form” wordpress plugin. I written detailed review about fast secure contact form wordpress plugin.

we given Fast Secure Contact Form wordpress plugin review which is helpful.

Fast Secure Contact Form wordpress plugin review

First information about “Fast Secure Contact Form” plugin

Fast Secure Contact Form

An easy and powerful form builder that lets your visitors send you email. Blocks all automated spammers. No templates to mess with.

Features:

Easily create and add forms to WordPress. Fields are easy to add, remove, and re-order. The contact form will let the user send emails to a site’s admin, and also send a meeting request to talk over phone or video.

Features: easy form edit, multiple forms, confirmation emails, no templates to mess with, and an option to redirect visitors to any URL after the message is sent. Includes CAPTCHA and Akismet support to block spammers. Spam is no longer a problem. You can add extra fields of any type: text, textarea, checkbox, checkbox-multiple, radio, select, select-multiple, attachment, date, time, hidden, password, and fieldset.

Nice features which I like:

Online Scheduling, Appointment Booking and Free Invoicing via vCita:
Add an online scheduling button to your form, or at the bottom of every page
Display your up-to-date availability on your website, based on your existing calendar (Google, Outlook, etc)
Invite leads and clients to schedule a phone call, book an appointment or request a service
Automated confirmations and reminders will be sent to your clients, including meeting details (time, location or phone number)
Scheduled appointments will be added to your calendar
Built-in phone conference service, and easy integration with Skype, Google Hangout, and other online meetings.
Collect payments online before the appointment or invoice and bill your clients for your time and services
Learn more about vCita Online Scheduling Software

Security:
Akismet spam protection support.
Spam checks: prevents spammer forcing to:, cc:, bcc:, newlines, and other email injection attempts to spam the world.
Makes sure the contact form was posted from your blog domain name only.
Secure input validation.
Email message footer shows blog username(if logged on), Date/Time timestamp, IP address, and user agent (browser version) of user who contacted you.

CAPTCHA Image Support:
Uses Open-source free PHP CAPTCHA library by http://www.phpcaptcha.org (customized version included)
Abstract backgrounds with multi colored, angled, distorted, text
Arched lines through text
Refresh button to reload CAPTCHA
CAPTCHA can be disabled on the ‘Security’ tab.

Review:

Very Easy to install and usages
It gives you the standard email template
Forms are easy to add, remove, label, and edit and preview.
You can rearrange the fields order
Supports HTML email template

Cons:

I have had very issues with older PHP version
Not easy to customize the functionality
No API’s provided like contact 7 plugin
Scheduling is not working as they said
Backward compability is not maintained in this plugin

how to add google search to wordpress manually

wordpress has inbuilt search, still people want to add the advanced search in their site. we will show, how to add google search to wordpress manually.

how to add google search to wordpress manually

There are too many sites build on wordpress. wordpress gives inbuild search option in cms. But still people want to add the advanced search in there site. I suggest you can add the google search in wordpress site. Adding google search in wordpress site is really SEO friendly also. It is very easy to add the google search system in wordpress sites.

In some very simple steps you can add the google search in wordpress sites.

First login to google and go to following URL:
https://www.google.com/cse/

how to add google search to wordpress manually

Just add the your site and and get your site custom google search for your site.

Before this you need to create the wordpress page for showing the search result page.

I created page called “search result”. For getting JS code you need give search result page path in google settings.

You will get options for selecting search result layout. Here you will get two javascripts code for google search form and search result.

After getting the two javscript code. You need to add the form code into wordpress widget.

On search result page just add the second code and save it. That sit. Your custom site google search is ready.

You can Customize Google Custom Search Engine Colors and Looks as your site color and theme.

wordpress gogogle search -CSE - Look and Feel — wordpress gogogle search -CSE – Look and Feel

Sample Form Code: (you can use following code in wordpress widget)

<form action="https://purabtech.in/search-result/" id="cse-search-box">
<div>
815y3hyfmru" />
<input type="hidden" name="cof" value="FORID:10" />
<input type="hidden" name="ie" value="ISO-8859-1" />
<input type="text" name="q" size="32" />
<input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" />
</div>
</form>

Following code you can use in search result page

cse-search-results">

var googleSearchIframeName = "cse-search-results";
var googleSearchFormName = "cse-search-box";
var googleSearchFrameWidth = 550;
var googleSearchDomain = "www.google.com";
var googleSearchPath = "/cse";
// ]]></script>

Google Search Trick in wordpress. There is width issue in search result page. Google search result render with 768px width.
You need to just add following CSS code in your wordpress theme style.css file.

#cse-search-results iframe {width: 200px; }

custom google site search you can add in any wordpress site without any wordpress plugin.

Best 10 free wordpress insurance themes

There are too many insurance companies and they have there different marketing and planning. Many insurance companies created there sites in wordpress. Insurance companies need the content and media and videos in there site. It is very easily manageable in wordpress. Many Insurance companies are looking for paid or free wordpress solution. Here I collected some nice wordpress themes which are really useful for insurance industry. Nice wordpress insurance themes which are really useful for insurance industry.

Best 10 wordpress insurance themes here is the list:

Stealth Premium WordPress Theme

DEMO

Columns: 2, Compatible Browsers: IE7, IE8, IE9, IE10, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome, Software Version: WordPress 3.6, WordPress 3.5, WordPress 3.4, WordPress 3.3, WordPress 3.2, WordPress 3.1, WordPress 3.0, High Resolution: No, Widget Ready: Yes

Blitz – Premium Business WordPress Theme

DEMO

Columns: 2, Compatible Browsers: IE7, IE8, Safari, Opera, Software Version: WordPress 3.0, jQuery, High Resolution: No, Widget Ready: Yes

Media Consult – Business WordPress Theme

DEMO

Columns: 2, Compatible Browsers: IE7, IE8, Safari, Opera, Software Version: WordPress 3.0, jQuery, High Resolution: No, Widget Ready: Yes

Barely Corporate Responsive WordPress Theme

DEMO

Compatible Browsers: IE8, IE9, IE10, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome, Software Version: WordPress 3.6, WordPress 3.5, WordPress 3.4, High Resolution: Yes, Widget Ready: Yes

Grey & White Consulting

DEMO

This responsive theme is designed for businesses and makes good use of white space. It is cleanly laid out, has a prominent navigational bar and sidebars to easily display important information and access contact details.

Cacoon

DEMO

MetCreative’s Cacoon WordPress theme is HTML5, CSS3 and Responsive.Cacoon’s layout is also liquid, this means it can fit any other screen like low resolutions 800×600 or 1024×768. Cacoon responds to tablets and phones.

Page creation with Cacoon is so easy, you just drag and drop built in elements where ever you want and fill it’s details as you wish.

Avamys

DEMO

Avamys is flexible and retina ready WordPress theme. Thanks to responsive design it looks good on tablets and mobile phones. By default you can choose light or dark style and one of 9 prepared color schemes, but thanks to colorpickers you can set up your own colors to the theme. With one click you can change layout style from wide to boxed version and with couple more you can set up your own background. If you want to give page or post it’s own character you can start with title background option. Thanks to this option you can set background color, font color, or choose background image for your page or post title. Theme is very easy to use, set up and customize. In case of any problems you can always ask your questions at premium support forum with search option.

eConsultant

DEMO

WordPress theme for Consultants and Professionals. With eConsultant you have the best tool to Communicate Your Strategic Vision and Inspire People to work with you.

Our Business

DEMO

OurBusiness is a clean and flexible wordpress business theme. Best suited for Business and Portfolio sites. Fully customizable with our options page framework FlexiPanel. The homepage can be easily configured to widgetized/business or blogging/latest posts mode. You can easily highlight some of your products or services with newly added “Flexi Info Box” widget.

Bradley: Insurance WordPress Theme

DEMO

Bradley is an insurance WordPress theme designed for an individual agent or small insurance agency. This Genesis child theme has five color options, lots of features, and it is SEO friendly. Bradley comes with multiple sidebars, widgetized home page, flexible rotator, call to action boxes, and author boxes for single or multiple bloggers. This responsive WordPress theme is mobile friendly and will automatically adapt to optimize the user experience on mobile devices.

how to create news website using wordpress for free

Many people created the news site with wordpress platform. I will help to create the news site using worpdress platform. With wordpress you can handle too much traffic. There are too many examples of news portals which created with wordpress. Mashable.com is one example of news portal. But recently they changed there platform from wordpress but for many years they used wordpress platform.

Many people created the news site with wordpress platform. we will show, how to create news website using wordpress for free. free wordpress themes for news.

how to create news website using wordpress for free

There are so many free wordpress themes which are great for news sties. You can easily create the news site using wordpress.

For creating the news site with wordpress, I recommend to use the some wordpress plugins.

Liveblog

Your readers want your updates as quickly as possible, and we think we provide the easiest and the most flexible publishing environment to make that happen. Sometimes though, that’s just not enough.

When you’re covering a fast-paced event — the latest Apple unveiling, an F1 Grand Prix, or the Super Bowl — a full blog post for each individual update is a poor experience for your authors and your audience.

Features:

Post updates right from the front-end of your site (no need to use the /wp-admin dashboard)
Viewers of your Liveblog get new entries served to them instantly and automatically, without needing to refresh their browser.
Your authors can drag-and-drop photos right into the Liveblog area, without needing to navigate to separate browser tabs or windows.
There’s no need for a separate site dedicated to liveblogging: every post can be a liveblog, even existing ones.

Co-Authors Plus

Assign multiple bylines to posts, pages, and custom post types via a search-as-you-type input box. Co-authored posts appear on a co-author’s archive page and in their feed. Co-authors may edit the posts they are associated with, and co-authors who are contributors may only edit posts if they have not been published (as is core behavior).

Add writers as bylines without creating WordPress user accounts. Simply create a guest author profile for the writer and assign the byline as you normally would.

On the frontend, use the Co-Authors Plus template tags to list co-authors anywhere you’d normally list the author.

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