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WordPress integration for communities like drop box


What is come with WordPress integration for communities that use WordPress?

Tapatalk 2 now comes with WordPress integration for communities that use WordPress as their primary or main systems for blogs and articles.

Tapatak 2 was discovered last January and around 50,000 communities present on the web presents their forums and discussions and its first edition, has just received its first major update which brings very important new features and several improvements which are notable. But one thing is to notice that in order to used these new features for the community, first of all official tapatalk 2 should be install from WordPress.org

Another important new feature in the new version of Tapatalk 2 is integration of DropBox.

Several months ago, DropBox introduced a new API which is basically designed for easy syncing of files across various applications and devices. The first application which takes advantage of the new API suite is none other than the DropBox-acquired Mailbox.

And now we are talking about Tapatalk 2, which allows you to upload photographs on forums and discussions from your DropBox.

The newly updated Tapatalk 2 also includes the following improvements:

Searching of items can be done easily: Users can now search for the required topics by filter them category wise and sub category wise (i.e. a sub-forum) or search for specific post in a thread by writing the topics in search bar which will be display in the topic listing or discussion view.

Supporting GIF Animation: Tapatalk 2 has another enhancement in which it support and display GIF animation

Page change: You can now change pages in a long discussion by moving left and right quickly.

Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements: Its new version is available as a free update in the application which is compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad running iOS 6.0 or later.

DropBox-

It is very important to access important files in just one go for those people who work on multiple computers and devices. DropBox allows us to store and share our files in an easy way and that is why it is known as the fastest-growing free services on the web. DropBox service-related plugins for WordPress are popping up everywhere and that is why the services of the DropBox play an important part of its user’s workflow. There are few creative ways by which we can integrate the WordPress site with our DropBox account. There are 9 DropBox plugins which can be used for WordPress.

What are the features of DropBox?

We can get all the stuff from our computers, phones, or tablets by putting all the stuff in DropBox. With this we can also edit documents, automatically add photos, and show off videos from anywhere.

DropBox states that you should work with your team but in that case privacy matters so it is necessary that you should control who sees what and after this you can share photos with friends and other members.

All the stuff is safe in DropBox or it can be restored in a snap and all the files with AES-256 bit encryption will be saved in a DropBox.

DropBox is very useful for business because millions of people use this at their work place. Thus they get the power and security of DropBox, robust admin controls, good support, and the required space.

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Importance of user Profiles


Admin user is by default created with the ‘WordPress’ installation. You can have as many users and each of them may have their own profile. The profiles can be attached to the posts, pages and comments on the website. These profiles are publicly available, to allow you to share information. You can edit the information given in the profile anytime and changes are immediately being reflected where your profile is being displayed. From the admin panel, profile can be created and edited by clicking on the “your profile” option. Profile is categorized as: ‘Personal options’, ‘Name’, ‘contact info’ and ‘About yourself’. In your profile you can enter your name, email-address, website name, AIM, yahoo or jabber id, name to be displayed publicly on posts and pages for which it provides you the list box from which you can choose. You can’t change the user name, if you have created the admin user and want to get rid of that, create another user with admin rights, login with that new user and delete the admin user.

CPWebHosting recommends that each user must create 2 more social profiles also:

Google+ profile at plus.google.com

It allows you to link your content with your google+ profile. If you already have a gmail id, open the site:

http://plus.google.com

login with your gmail id and password.

Open your Google+ profile by following this link:

http://plus.google.com/me

Copy your Profile-URL from the address bar to clipboard

Go to your WordPress Admin Panel and click Users » Your Profile. Paste the above mentioned URL to the field where it says „Google Plus Author Link“.

Click Update Profile.

Add a reciprocal link back from your profile to the site you just updated

Follow this link to edit the Contributor To section: http://plus.google.com/me/about/edit/co

In the dialog that appears, click Add custom link, and then enter your website URL.

If you want, click the drop-down list to specify who can see the link.

Click Save.

Gravatar User Profile at Gravatar.com

Gravatar stands for ‘Globally recognized avatar’. It allows you to display your image across the web. Click on the signup button on the site and enter the email address you want to use. Gravatar will send a email for confirmation, click on the activate link there. After that provide the user name and password twice and then click on the signup. Add a image to your gravatar account and then select that image to be associated with your email address. Edit your profile, enter your contact information

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WordPress Security


  • Upload the wordpress files and folders in directory with some other name hard to predict like cpweb or here or anything else. A trick can be done to hide this directory, to make it appear as it is installed in home directory. Go to Settings-> General and delete the sub-directory name from the field site address(URL). Site address is the perceived address and WordPress address(URL) is the physical address. Copy the .htaccess and index file on the root of the domain, edit them and change the last line showing:
    require(./wp-blog-header.php)
    to
    require(./<directory-name>/wp-blog-header.php)
  • Change the table prefix while creating the configuration file, as it makes tougher for hackers.
  • Put unique phrases in the salts of wp-config.php file. It can be generated using wordpress
    http://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/
  • Don’t use admin as user name, while setting up your site, as admin is the default user, so every hacker might like to attack this user. So choose other name apart from admin.

  • It is very important to secure wp-config.php file and wp-content directory, rest of the files you can delete and upload them again. All the uploaded files are stored in the wp-content folder and database connectivity is saved in wp-config.php file.

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Move from Tumblr to Word Press


What is Tumblr?

Before the Social networking sites, blogs were there but we have made efforts and due to this, concept of blogging becomes micro blogging. Thus, Tumblr is a micro blogging platform as well as a social networking website which allows its users to post multimedia content i.e. e-mail, audio, video, text, images, links, quotes and other content to a short form blog i.e. their tumble log. It was founded by David Karp and owned by Yahoo! Inc. on May 20, 2013. It allows its users to keep their blogs private and with this they can follow other users’ blogs also. Many of its website’s features are accessible from the tumblr “dashboard”. Its headquarters are located at 35 East 21st Street in the Flatiron District in New York City’s Silicon Alley.

Why to move from Tumblr to WordPress?

There are few reasons behind this:

Content is all yours-Whatever content you publish on WordPress is all yours. WordPress gives you freedom and feeling of ownership because it not owned by any company and it is open and free software.

Easy to use-Wordpress is quite easy to use, if compared with tumblr and it gives you power to control your site.

WordPress and tumblr are complementary – WordPress and tumblr are like friends and are complementary to each other. In fact, Tumblr’s own blog used to be on WordPress. Migration of entire tumblr site to WordPress only takes a few clicks.

On the basis of the above reasons, one can move from tumblr to WordPress.

What are the steps should be followed to move from Tumblr to WordPress?

The process will take few steps to move from tumblr to WordPress:

Step-1-Getting ready to Import- To import tumble log’s content to WordPress, go to Tools ? Import,display in your WordPress dashboard and see the Tumblr importer. If you are not having an account on WordPress then you are required to sign up first. Click the link to get started and then enter the email address which you used to sign up to Tumblr, then enter your Tumblr password and click Connect to Tumblr.

Step-2- Import Tumblr-The importer will allow you to import the blog which you want to import from the list of blogs. Click on the tab-Import this blog. Once you have started, import page will show you the progress of your import and you will be sent an email when the import is finished and all your Tumblr content, including your Videos, are imported into the WordPress blog. But, if your Tumblr site has a custom domain, then it needs to be temporarily disabled while the import is processed. To disable this, first you need to move to your Tumblr Dashboard, click on the Settings button and then uncheck “Use a Custom Domain” checkbox and then you’ll going to set up Domain Mapping on your WordPress blog so that the readers can use the same domain to reach your site as earlier they do.

Step-3-Design the Site as per your way-We can customize or modify the design of the website while the content is being imported by selecting one of the post format as WordPress supports Post Formats which allow you to distinguish between the different types of content you post on your site.

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Installing WordPress with CPWebHosting


For Self Hosting Worpdress on your domain, you need access to your website and also to the MySQL database, which is being provided on your mail from CPWebHosting. You are being provided with cPanel Hosting Panel, from where you can create a FTP account for your website and also you can create MySQL database.

Once you are done with you will be having the following:

FTP – Username, password, URL of the website. It is always recommended to create the FTP account and not to use the master ftp account. If the FTP account gets compromised, you can always delete it and create new one using the hosting control panel cPanel. Also, the custom FTP account can be targeted to the specific folder also, if you choose not to install WordPress on website root. In cPanel, the FTP user name would be in a format

<user-name>@<website-name>

MySQL Database – Database name, Database user name, Database User password & host address, which is normally localhost in most of cases. User created must be having all the privileges.

Download New Version of WordPress from the website WordPress [dot] org. You will find all the latest updates on WordPress on the site very frequently. You can click on the blue download button or the top menu download option, a zip file will be downloaded on local PC. Unzip the file and move wordpress directory to a location, from where it can be uploaded to the server using FTP client like core FTP or FileZilla.

For better security you can upload the files of the wordpress directory in some folder with some other name not related to wordpress like cpweb.

Next, step is to open the browser and open your site with the directory in which you have uploaded the wordpress directory files and folders.

http://www.cpwebhosting.com/

If everything is uploaded properly, on your browser you will be show with the message that “There doesn’t seem to be a wp-config.php file, I need it before we can get started”

If you are viewing this screen, it means everything is properly uploaded and now it is ready to set. The message is coming; as yet configuration is not being given. 5 minute install screen is there which also shows the button “Create Configuration File” click on it. The next step asks for the database details and also table prefix. It is always a good idea to change it to make the site more secure. Once everything entered by you is correct you will be taken to page which will show the button “Run Install”. Next step will ask you to enter the Title of the site, username, password twice and email. If you forget the password, you can use the forget password facility provided by wordpress to email your password.

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Small businesses hosting packages on WordPress


Small businesses hosting packages

What hosting packages are available on WordPress for small businesses? WordPress has launched WordPress Business, a new hosting package designed for small businesses.

The new WordPress business package includes live support, unlimited premium themes and unlimited storage and all the features included in its Premium Bundle. WordPress introduces its new business package for small businesses or non-profits and its new option may make users, more inclined to upgrade. While there are some small businesses or non-profits which are already using WordPress to host their websites for free.

To win customers in this segment is increasing, due to this new package and SMBs are good for web hosts and cloud providers. Premium themes starting at $50/each and storage upgrade cost around $290/year, WordPress Business starts saving your money whenever you sign up, said by WordPress. WordPress in 299$ per year allows business saves more in developer, designer, and support costs, making it a great choice for your business. It also provides you live support when you have the problem of website crisis.

“If you are planning to start a small business, you understand the need of a good website which ultimately helps you to grow business but if you don’t have money or enough time to build the website then with WordPress Business all the things can be done as it makes available all

the tools which you required to build a rich, engaging website that support and meet your objectives and goals without hiring a web developer and it also take care of backups, disk storage capacity, bandwidth and other things which are available in the package.

Small businesses needed a domain, storage, and a wide selection of themes for building a Web site. WordPress provide not only site hosting and a free domain, but also live support in the form of chat, or email when chat is not available, unlimited storage and so many unlimited premium themes in which you can select yours, SMB without ads and all this will cost only 299$ annually. But if you are planning to buy all the items and upgrades separately, then they will cost around 700$.Without doubt we can say that there are slightly cheaper hosting options are also available, but unlimited storage, support, and themes make WordPress Business a compelling and a very good choice.

Here is a list of things which are available in the hosting packages used for small businesses- Basically there are three plans offered by WordPress which are named as- first Standard, second business i.e. meant for Business users and third starter for the beginners or starters.

Disk storage and bandwidth capacity of different sizes which varies with the plan, free setup, lite speed, ticket or phone support, 99.9% uptime guarantee, Instant and daily backups, c panel which is SSL secured, money back guarantee mostly of 60 days in all the three plans, sub/addon domains which also varies with the plan, support for cloud fare, softaculous, cloud linux operating system, My SQL databases also varies with the plan. Duration of the plan is also different for all the users i.e. varies with the plan, means plan can be of 3 months,6 months,1 year or 2 year.

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Free WordPress Hosting Vs. Self Hosting


WordPress Free Hosting

Most of the Blogger choose WordPress[dot]com for their blogging, as it is free. The site is managed, maintained & updated by the company “Automatic”, they are the creators of the WordPress. They do provide Zero hassle environment, it means that bloggers can work on the quality of their content and rest is all handled by the company itself. Although there are few restrictions laid by the company on the content like they don’t allow you to put adult content or google ads, but working on WordPress[dot]com is really amazing. They do provide theme library with inbuilt functionality. You can choose from thousands of the themes available to bring the best look for your website. You cannot install your own theme or re-design the theme, you can only choose from the available themes, but still that library is quite huge. WordPress[dot] provides the cloud hosting environment. Cloud means that there is distributed network of multiple servers which means that the site is fast and secured, if any server goes down, the site comes from the other server; it never goes down of the Internet. Most of the bloggers do complain, that the WordPress[dot]com don’t allow them to install plugins of their choice to add new functionality to their blogs, they are allowed to enjoy the functionality did provided by the company itself. Most of the people who are looking for free hosting or want to switch to it; the creator company does provide import facility from self hosted environment. Many of the them are moved to the WordPress[dot]com, as it is very rapidly growing platform. Not only import, the site do offers export functionality also, if you are thinking of moving your site to the self-hosted environment.

WordPress Self Hosted

You have a domain and you want to manage your site by yourself. You have already purchased the hosting services from CPWebHosting.com. From the Fantastico available in the Cpanel, you have installed the WordPress on your site and now you want to manage it by your own choice. Although there is no content restrictions laid by CPWebHosting, but most of time it is seen they point on adult content or sometime they don’t allow you. But, you can find the listing of the adult hosting providers on them also, if they don’t allow, you can choose hosting services of those companies. So, if they don’t allow, they provide you choices which allows it.

If the wordpress is on the self-hosted environment, you can put the Google ad sense which is not allowed in a free hosting environment. You can put any custom theme of your choice and also re-design it with the way you like. You can always add new functionality to your website using the plugins. So, you can add fancy of features on your website. All the controls are in your hand you can make the site setup exactly the way you want it to be. You can any linking and manage any of the hassles that comes to you. As with the feature available in free hosting environment, Import-Export features is also available. You can anytime switch to the free environment or vice-versa.

Both the free hosting and self hosting environments have advantages and disadvantages, but all depends on the assessment what you need and what is available and where you want to take your site in the near future. WordPress is same in both self hosted and free environment. WordPress is flexible you can switch to any of the environment at any time.

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WordPress data leakage risk flagged by security researcher


What happens if there is a flaw in the WordPress?

As we all know that all the web hosting providers possess some limitations also due to which it is possible that users have to compromise their data in the form of text, audio, video, images, quotes, links and other type of content and same thing happens with the WordPress also. Our Researchers are saying that on the basis of their findings they have find that there is a flaw in the WordPress which could put millions of user’s data at the risk of leakage and could affect thousands of websites and blogs.

WordPress data leakage risk flagged by security researcher-a company known as White hat

There is a security firm known as White hat which prepared a report on WordPress after going through it and with the proper analysis and according to that , the blogging platform ,we can say WordPress will not completely protect multimedia files i.e. audio, video, links, quotes and other content which are uploaded to sites in the same manner as it safeguards text, which could potentially leave a listed company to face the risk of insider trading or a design firm to copyright theft. This will allow the hackers or attackers to easily guess which files and attachments are available for postings that have not been approved yet or gone live .

For example, let’s say you are running a private traded company and you are planning to release your earnings report on your blog and for this you may upload a PDF file of the earnings report in a day or multiple days i.e. in weeks or in months in advance to make sure you’re your preparations are on full hand and as per your plans everything is ready and perfect and ready to go as soon as you announce.”

This is possible that an attacker could download the URL of the PDF of the earnings report in advance if he will be able to guess the (uniform resource locator) URL of the PDF of the earnings report and with this earning report attacker can do the trade of it also.

Despite above all of this, he claimed that there are less chances of flaw occurring in WordPress its severity is low, and apart from data leakage, it will not be used to increase attacks such as code injection or cross-site scripting.

It has been seen in the beginning of this year, that hackers were using brute force against thousands of WordPress sites’ administration accounts so that they can compromise or affect sites and spread malicious material , as reported by IT PRO’s.

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All about zed eCommerce 8.0 for SAP Business with WordPress Integration


Zed eCommerce 8.0 by Zed suite is considered to be a milestone in providing effective ecommerce solutions for the integration of SAP one. This offers one of the most comprehensive solutions. The Zed eCommerce 8.0 has WordPress integration that gives business owners complete control over the content of their websites. This version is priced perfectly to fit the budget of medium sized business owners. So business owners are able to afford new technology to improve their operations. Business owners that use SAP one and the users that use Zed ecommerce can take full advantage of the Zed eCommerce 8.0.

By using Zed eCommerce 8.0 business owners can utilize the best of two worlds. Now business owners may sometimes feel like transferring a store to another platform or they may feel like starting an online store and they are able to do this by using Zed eCommerce 8.0. The features of Zed eCommerce 8.0 allows the users a lot of customization and flexibility which is what a growing business really needs at this time.

Since Zed eCommerce 8.0 provides CMS through WordPress businesses can exercise complete control over their websites and they can control things like themes, extensions, content pages and navigation. You can give your online store a completely new look. Since Zed eCommerce 8.0 provides indexing for static pages and descriptions for the store the whole thing is indexed very easily by Google.

A little bit about the creators of Zed eCommerce 8.0

Zed suite is a reliable web integration partner that is responsible of taking the potential of SAP business and spreading it all over the world. Zed suite provides the appropriate level of customization and integration to cater to the individual needs of each customers. Zed suite provides the companies to provide innovative services to the customers so that even the customers feel that they are getting services worth the money that they have spent.

By providing Zed eCommerce 8.0 zed suite has empowered businesses to deliver good and flexible services. The company employs a very steady team of experts who know how to get on with it and provide exactly what the customers are looking for. The company follows a consultative approach to ensure that the solution provided is in alignment with the goals and processes of each business.

Zed Suite Incorporation is a component of the ZED group of companies since 1922. The group of companies is privately owned and operated and has a vision of sharing its technology with the customers and help them improve their operation in the process.

The best part is that Zed eCommerce 8.0 has various sophisticated tools that make the job a lot easier. The interface is very user friendly and very easy to use. So once you install this you must take the time to go through the various tools as there is plenty that you can do. So take the time and go through the entire interface and do not rush through the process. Follow the tips in the article for a better understanding of zed eCommerce 8.0 for SAP Business with WordPress Integration.

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Best WordPress Hosting Winners 2013


who is the Winner of best WordPress hosting for the year 2013?

Bluehost was declared as the Winner of best WordPress hosting for the year 2013 at wordpress by one of the top web hosting review site named Bestwebhosting2go on 23 July’13. Bluehost was founded in 1996 and is suitable for mainly community groups, small and medium sized companies, personal websites. It is an award hosting company with around 17 years development has become one of the largest web hosting provider which serves 2.5 million users worldwide. It was successfully providing top quality web hosting from last 15 years to millions of domains.Bestwebhosting2go is a global leader in web hosting search and review platform which help users in choosing the best web hosting provider.

This is declared as the best WordPress hosting on the basis of their customer feedback, security, reliability, speed, price and customer support, as said by the editor of Bestwebhosting2go.They also said that if you will compare bluehost with their competitors, then it will be a best choice for your small or medium company or if you were a blogger or developer.

Bestwebhosting2go states that to give their users best from their experiences for WordPress, bluehost accept the following criteria:

  • Bluehost is cheap and affordable.
  • It provides very good and friendly support to their customers. Customers can contact then 24*7 through e-mail, live chat or phone. Customer satisfaction rate is highest of bluehost, if we compared with others. They have so many tutorials available which give quick answers to the questions.
  • It is 100% well suited or goes well together with WordPress.
  • It also provides high performance web servers and world class data centers.
  • They have their own data centers, not like the other web hosting companies which rent their data centre. Apart from this, their data centre contain good web hosting packages which ensures good services to their users, high speed and bandwidth capacity.
  • It allows WordPress users to handle large amount of data i.e. image files, plugins and other content because BlueHost allows a high PHP memory limit at 521MB.
  • BlueHost also allows WordPress to run fast by optimizing MYSQL performance and PHP caching.
  • BlueHost provides Simple Scripts a new script installer for installing and maintaining WordPress site but if we talk about other web hosting providers then they provide fantastico, which is an old script installer.
  • Regarding the pricing and other plans, BlueHost is offering 44% discount to all their new customers. Plan of the BlueHost includes 1 free domain registration, no set up fees, full payment at the time of sign up.
  • BlueHost also provide money back up guarantee if you cancel your account within 30 days and if after that then it will give you pro-rated refund.

Conclusion-BlueHost is basically designed for those who have to host a personal site or blog and it is the best hosting available for WordPress.