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1. Don’t use ‘admin’ username
You have the option to change your admin username into whatever you like. I encourage you to do so. Anybody who tries to get into your WordPress admin section will try with ‘admin’ as a username. If you change it, potential hacker has to hack both username and password. Another way of doing this is, Create a new administrator user, login as that user, and delete your “admin” user account.
If you are running older version of WordPress (which I do not recommend), you can change admin username directly in the database. Open your phpMyAdmin and run this query:

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UPDATE wp_users SET user_login = ‘your_new_login’ WHERE user_login = ‘admin’;

2. Install Login LockDown Plugin

Potential hacker will try to break your username/password combination using brute force or dictionary attack on your WordPress Login screen. Login LockDown Plugin will prevent that.
Login LockDown records the IP address and timestamp of every failed login attempt. If more than a certain number of attempts are detected within a short period of time from the same IP range, then the login function is disabled for all requests from that range. This helps to prevent brute force password discovery.
Currently the plugin defaults to a 1 hour lock out of an IP block after 3 failed login attempts within 5 minutes. This can be modified via the Options panel. Administrators can release locked out IP ranges manually from the panel.
You can download Login LockDown plugin from here.
This will surely secure your website login in much better way than before.
3. Install Secure WordPress plugin

There are many places inside your WordPress site that is telling a potential hacker a version of your WordPress installation, as well as other dangerous information.
Secure WordPress beefs up the security of your WordPress […]

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A lot of times we need to display posts from a certain category on a page or a part of page. This is possible by using a bit of code in the relevant template file. For example if you need to display the posts from a category on homepage then edit the index.php (or any other file which has been set up as homepage in dashboard settings).
Display Posts by Category
Its easy to display posts by category using ‘wp_query’ object in code. You can easily use the arguments of the ‘wp_query’ to pass the category id and then display relevant posts. Now question is how to find the catagory id (which is a number) of a certain category. There two ways of doing that:

Two Ways of Finding Category ID in WordPress
1-Click on posts->categories and hover over the category name at the bottom of the screen you will see a link, which has a word call tag_id. See what is the value of tag_id and that gives you the category id.

2-Install the ‘reveal IDs’ plugin and it will show you catgory ID in front of category name on your category list page.

Using the wp_query object
Once you know the category id you can use wp_query object and pass it the category id for the posts to be displayed. First of all find the loop code in the template. The standard wordpress loop code is:

Replace the above code with the code below, where category id will be the id which you have found for your category.

You can also display posts in categories by using other category parameters of wp_query object. For doing that replace the first line in above code with

Any question? Ask me, i will be happy […]

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If you want to put google adsense in Vbulletin Mobile Theme, go to your adsense account and choose ads for content. After that go to Styles and Templates, choose edit template from dropdown, choose ‘Ad Location Templates’. Vbulletin 3.7 has 7 locations for ads.

The 7 locations are called:
ad_footer_end
ad_footer_start
ad_forumdisplay_afterthreads
ad_forumhome_afterforums
ad_header_end
ad_header_logo
ad_navbar_below
ad_showthread_beforeqr
ad_showthread_firstpost

Click to see the various ad locations available, find the one which is relavant to your ad and paste the google code in that template.

You will see header template. Now you can put adsense code in it and wait for sometime for tha ads to become active. The ads do not show for some time usually. It might take 48hours max for the ads to show, so don’t worry and wait. When ads are visible you can change their postion or color scheme as you wish.

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A stylish theme by Smart Magazine to showcase cars or any other products you want to show. Its a simple blog theme which can be used for many purposes. A brand new design for 2013.

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A lot of people would want to post to twitter from their website. This means that the rss feed is tweeted to your twitter timeline. I will share a wonderful php script that can do it for you. Connecting your website with twitter is too easy now, using php you can post rss feed of your website to twitter. Check out the php code snippet given below and replace the values for your site and see how it works.

source: Posting to Twitter

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Recently skrill (moneybookers.com) modified the withdrawl process for wire transfer to banks. When withdrawing money, they ask for your IBAN . Now

IBAN is international Bank Account Number, which can be generated from your local bank account number and swift code easily. IBAN its not a new information, it is generated by your bank account number and swift code after doing some calculations on it.

I faced a lot of trouble when i called Bank Alfalah, Lahore and asked them my IBAN. They told me Alafalah does not have an IBAN. I called them again and same reply. Then i decided to so something on my own. I used a tool to generate the IBAN and also followed the steps given by State Bank Of Pakistan to verify that my IBAN was correct. Luckily I was able to generate the correct number and received my money from skrill in my account 2 days back.

Use this tool to calculate IBAN.

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Free Responsive theme created by Theme ID. The features of the theme are responsive web design, grid layout, wigitized area (9 widgets), custom menu support and much more.

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Sometimes you have a lot of categories, you cannot simply list them down as one column. In such a case you would like to have it displayed in multiple columns. We will use wordpress built-in functions to list categories, so that any new ones are automatically added to the list.
You can display the category names in footer in 2 or columns in your theme. This can be done by using wp_list_categories() and playing with some mathematics. Normally you can find code that displays category names in two columns but this snippet will do it in as many columns as you want. Have a look at this tip and you will love it!!

source:http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2010/01/15/how-to-display-your-wordpress-category-list-in-multiple-columns/

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I was trying to design a form, i came across a lot of form generators. Using these generators is an easy way to generate html for form. The markup might not be standard compliant, but for newbies, it makes form designing an easy task. Below are some form generators

1- pForm

In pForm, you are provided with a form template in many colors. You can choose any color for template and then add fields in next screen.

Link

2- Wufo Form Gallery

Here you have a lot of templates for example, employment application, event calendar, wedding invitation, mailing lists etc.

Link

3- Zoho Creator

At zoho creator you have multiple templates like event planner, customer feedback etc. Its a drag and drop interface , very easy to use.

Link

4- Free HTML Form Generator

This is a downloadable file which can be put on webserver or locally, it generates the html for the form you require. You can put it up on your server too, since its free and open source. It can be a good attraction for people trying to generate some html.

Link demo

5- 123 Contact Form

You can design online survey forms, contact forms and any kind of blogger and wordpress forms here. This requires signup.

Link

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Sometimes you would like to add a specific featured image to post if it belongs to a specific category. You would like the posts from one category to display an image when it does not have an image attachment with itself, so if an author leaves out or forgets a to put a featured image, you don’t have a blank image for that post and a category image is displayed automatically. This can be done very easily in wordpress. Here are the steps

1-First save images or icons for each category with their name. For example for news category save a picture news.png, for economy category save economy.png and so on. Save all of them in images folder of your active theme.

2-Then in your template files where ever you want to show featured images write this code.

and you are done!

Another way to add images to category posts is by using plugin. A plugins you can use for this purpose is
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WordPress Display Posts From Category

WordPress Display Posts From Category

Adding Google Adsense Vbulletin Mobile Style

Adding Google Adsense Vbulletin Mobile Style

Stylish Showcase WordPress Theme

Stylish Showcase WordPress Theme

Website RSS to Twitter (Posting to Twitter)

Website RSS to Twitter (Posting to Twitter)

Skrill Asking For IBAN

Responsive Theme

Responsive Theme

Display Category Names in Multiple Columns

Display Category Names in Multiple Columns

Top HTML Form Generators

Top HTML Form Generators

Adding Category Images To posts

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