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Quick Tip: Backing Up Your Blog with VaultPress

Sunday, July 10th, 2011

Introduction

VaultPress is the latest product from Automattic (the creators of WordPress.com) which provides around the clock, complete backup of your WordPress blog. It performs a synchronization of every post, comment, media file, revision and dashboard setting across at least two separate cloud services.

If that is not enough, they provide continuous security, disaster recovery and also help you in the migration of your blog to a new host. All this sounds interesting, and if you want to start backing up and securing your blog right away, then this Quick Tip will have you set up in five minutes!.

This quick tip is one of my tutorials at WPTuts+ Check out the complete tutorial here.

Tags: Backup, Quick tip, Vaultpress, Wordpress
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40+ Stunning WordPress Portfolio Themes

Thursday, July 7th, 2011

This is my first round up ever. What better way to write my first round up post than to display a list of the best WordPress themes out there for portfolio purposes. This list consists of the most stunning WordPress portfolio themes both free and premium ones. This is also my latest post at WPTuts+

Boldly

Boldly is a beautiful theme for portfolio with an amazing slider at the top. It has all the qualities of a premium theme and has loads of customization options at the backend.
Preview | Download

Wordfolio

Wordfolio is an award winning wordpress portfolio theme. It has this unique innovative concept of displaying the featured work, which impresses the visitor within seconds. It’s totally worth the price.
Preview | Buy

To check out the remaining awesome 38 themes and their download links, visit my latest post at WPTuts+. Also do leave your suggestions and feed backs. Would love to know what kind of tutorials and round ups you would like to read in the future.

Tags: Download, Free, Portfolio, Premium, Round Up, Themes, Wordpress
Posted in Blog, Tutorials | 4 Comments »

Quick Tip: Using Shortcodes in Theme Development

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

Envato just launched their latest tuts+ site WPTuts+. This site is completely dedicated to wordpress and I am sure I will be writing  many tutorials there in the future . This is one of the quick tips I wrote for WPTuts+ which briefly explains how you can use the powerful shortcodes feature provided by WordPress.

Introduction

Shortcodes have many benefits if used properly in theme files. If you are familiar with preprocessor macros in C / C ++, then shortcodes can serve a somewhat similar function in WordPress. The basic purpose of using a shortcode is to replace the placeholder with your own custom piece of HTML code when the server sends the page to the client side. The steps involved in creation and implementation of shortcodes are as follows…

You can check out the complete quick tip at the new  WPTuts+ site . Do share your comments and views regarding this quick tip and also any suggestions for tutorials you would like to read .

Tags: Quick tip, Shortcodes, Theme Development, Wordpress
Posted in Blog, Tutorials | 1 Comment »