WebGuide4U

Photoshop | WordPress | Webhosting | Web Designing | Discount Coupon

How-To

[How-to Guide] Add Facebook Like Button to Your Blog

by Leave a Comment

Facebook and Twitter are going head to head in their attempts for web domination. Now facebook has released their “Like” button. The Facebook like button extends their like feature to other sites on the web. If the users are logged into their facebook account, then they can “like” or “recommend” a web page to all of their facebook friends as they are reading it from the site. In this article i will show you that how you can add facebook like button without installing any WordPress plugin. All you need to do is to insert this simple code in your WordPress blog:

Code:

<iframe src=”http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=<?php echo urlencode(get_permalink($post->ID)); ?>&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light” scrolling=”no” frameborder=”0″ allowTransparency=”true” style=”border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:60px;”></iframe>

There are other parameters and options for this plugin.

  • If you want to show the friend icons under the button, then you should use the parameter:

show_face=true

  • If you want to display the simple button with only the count and nothing else, then you want to use the parameter:

layout=button_count

  • If you want a darker color scheme for your button, then you need to use the parameter:

colorscheme=dark

  • If you want to change the text from Like to Recommend, then use the parameter:

action=recommend

You can customize the width of the iFrame as you like.

This tutorial will help you to put facebook like button without any help of plugin and will save you from installing a one more plugin in your WordPress blog. In the end, if you like this tutorial then you like WebGuide4U on Facebook.

[How to Guide] Installing WordPress on Hostgator

by 10 Comments

WebGuide4U is running on hostgator, one of the favorite web-hosting companies out there on web. Already I have shared a discount coupon code of hostgator on WebGuide4U. In earlier posts i have already outlined the importance of having a good domain name and tools to pick up the best and excellent domain name.

Now in this post I will provide you the step by step guide on installing wordpress on Hostgator Webhosting. In this tutorial I’m using Fantastico to install the wordpress on hostgator and will come out with other tutorial which will help you out installing wordpress without using Fantastico on hostgator. For your information, Fantastico is a script which will help you out in installing lot’s of software’s, forums and blogging platforms with single click.

So here comes the step by step guide on installing WordPress on Hostgator:

  • Login to your hosting control panel and navigate down to Fantastico (Software/Services > Fantastico)

  • Now click it to open Fantastico which will open up in a next page

  • Select WordPress from left hand side and click on New Installation.  This will take you the first page where you need to enter few details to get started with the installation of WordPress.

  • Fill out all the details and some of the details like sitename, description you can change later on and click on install WordPress

  • After clicking on Install WordPress you will be taken on next screen where you have to click on “Finish Installation”.

  • After clicking on finish installation you will be taken on next page where you will be asked for the confirmation. Click on confirm and you are ready to start the blogging business :).

These are the basic steps you have to follow. Now simply login to your WordPress admin panel.

Do let us know in the comments section if you face any problem in installing wordpress?

In the meanwhile you might also be interested in reading these tutorials also:

Tips on Choosing the Good and Best Domain Name

Top 33 Tools To Pick Up Excellent Domain Name

Tips on Choosing the Best Web Host

Pros and Cons of Shared Web Hosting

Advantages and Disadvantages of Dedicated Hosting

Best WordPress Hosting Companies

[How-to Guide] Adding Multiple Blogs In WordPress 3.0

by 1 Comment

In earlier articles we had already covered lot on wordpress 3.0 like:

Which will help you out a lot in understanding wordpress 3.0. Now in this article I’m going to provide a step by step guide on adding additional wordpress blog into your wordpress MU enabled blog in wordpress 3.0 . Adding a new site is easy in wordpess 3.0, just follow these simple steps

  • To get started, click on Sites option under Super Admin panel (Super Admin> Sites).

  • You have to fill the details and after filling all the details click on the “Add Site” button, as shown in the screenshot:

  • Now you will be directed to the next page where you will see “thesis” is added. Now you can simply click on “View Site” and see your new wordpress blog.

I hope that you will find the tutorial simple and it will help you out in adding any number of blogs into your latest WordPress MU installation. Still you have any question, feel free to ask in the comments section or via contact form.

If you don’t want to miss a single article on wordpress 3.0 get subscribed to our feeds and you can also follow us on twitter @webguide4u.

[How-to Guide] Enable WordPress MU In WordPress 3.0

by Leave a Comment

Already I have outlined some of the features and how to guides on wordpress 3.0. We all know that wordpress 3.0 will incorporate WPMU (wordpress mu) in it and with this feature you can run multiple blogs from one single wordpress installation. We assume that you already upgraded your wordpress blog and enabled the multiple site network option on your wordpress blog. Now in this post, I will help you out in installing multiple wordpress blog in wordpress 3.0.

Step 1

Go to Tools> Network, you will see the screen like this:

Once you click on the install button, you will be taken to next page, where your technical skills are being used, i.e., you have to play with two most important files of wordpress and if a mistake occurs, then you mess up all the things, these two files are wpconfig.php and .htaccess file respectively. Just follow the these useful steps and you will easily enable wordpress mu in your blog:

  • Create blog.dir Directory

Create a blogs.dir directory in /webguide4u.com/wp-content. This directory is used to store uploaded media for your additional sites and must be writeable by the web server.

  • Adding Codes to wp-config.php File

Open your wp-config.php file and copy paste the following code into it and save it.

  • Adding Authentication Keys

Add authentication keys into your wp-config.php file while adding this new code you have to replace the old authentication keys.

Adding .htaccess Code:

This is the last thing that you need to do in order to run wordpress mu. Open your .htaccess file and add this piece of code in it and save this file.

After doing all such technical work, you have to relogin into your wordpress admin panel and you will be surprised by seeing the new feature in your wordpress blog, it is “Super Admin in WordPress 3.0”.

This is all, now your blog is MU compatible and you can add up any number of blogs in a single click.

In the meanwhile, do let us know your views on this? If you have any problem, then let us know through comments section or via contact me page.

If you like the efforts that are being made on this, then share the post on digg, twitter, facebook, etc.

Keep subscribed to our feeds so that you don’t miss a single article on wordpress 3.0

[How-to Guide] Multi-Site Option in WordPress 3.0

by 2 Comments

Finally after a lot of buzz on the web wordpress 3.0 is out there and it comes with wordpress WPMU which is being incorporated in wordpress 3.0, that means now you can run multiple blogs/websites from one single installation of wordpress. This will indirectly empower wordpress users to run multiple websites from one blog. As already I had provided you the tutorial on how to upgrade your wordpress blog to wordpress 3.0 and wordpress URL Shortener feature, continuing in the same series of posts, in this article I will highlight the new feature of wordpress 3.0 which is being known as Network or Multi-Site option and by default this feature is being disabled in wordpress 3.0.

This article will provide you the step by step guide on how you can enable the Network settings options in wordpress 3.0? So for what you are waiting for just get started and experience the joy of working on wordpress 3.0.

To enable this multi-site feature on your wordpress blog, you have to simply edit your wp-config.php file which is being located in wordpress installation directory. Open this file by using the FTP and add the following one line code in it.

define(‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true);

After adding that piece of code in wp-config.php file, refresh your wordpress dashboard and you will see the page like this:


Now simply deactivate the plugins to remove this error message.

Now go to Network Settings Option under Tools section and click on the network settings option, after clicking on network options you will see the page like this:

Although it is simple, but requires a lot of attention in doing all this work because I know many of them are facing this problem and still you are unable to do this then you can Hire Me. Will be coming with lots of posts on wordpress 3.0 and how to merge your blogs into one blog.

Caution

Disable all the plugins first because some of them are not compatible with wordpress 3.0.

To keep updated yourself, don’t forget to subscribe to our feeds and you can also follows us on twitter @webguide4u

[WordPress 3.0 Features] URL Shortener Under Your Domain Name

by 4 Comments

We all know that WordPress 3.0 is out and everyone will be working on to upgrade it and experiencing out the new features and functions in wordpress 3.0. We had already provided you the tutorial on how to upgrade wordpress to wordpress 3.0.  Now, in this article I’m sharing you with one amazing feature of wordpress 3.0 is URL shortening.

WordPress 3.0 comes with a URL shortner under you domain name and it will helps you in branding your wordpress blog. While shortening URL we use third party applications like bit.ly, su.pr, etc. or other plugins, but default option would be very handy for anyone out there.

After writing an article you can click on edit article to get the option of shortlink as you can see in the image below:

Meanwhile in the end do let us know what you think about this URL shortener feature under your domain name in wordpress 3.0?

Signup for our newsletter to get all the wordpress 3.0 tutorials directly in your inbox.

[How To Guide] Upgrade WordPress To WordPress 3.0

by 1 Comment

All of you know wordpress 3.0 is released and is available for download. Now it’s the time to upgrade your wordpress blog to the latest version but before this you make a complete backup of your wordpress blog before up-gradation because if something goes wrong then you can easily backup all the data.

Now, here comes the step by step guide on upgrading your wordpress blog.

  • Login to wordpress admin panel, at the top you will see a notification which says “WordPress 3.0 is available! Please update now”.

  • Click on the “Please update now” and you will see the upgrade option like this:

  • Click on the upgrade automatically button and if everything goes good you will see successfully upgraded to wordpress 3.0 like this:

  • Now go back to your wordpress admin panel and you will see that it is running on wordpress 3.0

WordPress automatic upgrade made upgrading wordpress very much easy even a newbie will easily upgrade it.

Caution

I recommend you to take complete backup of your wordpress blog before upgrading to wordpress 3.0. If you think that you can’t upgrade to wordpress 3.0, then take a help from me in upgrading your wordpress blog.

Keep reading we will update all the tutorials on wordpress and wordpress 3.0 that will help you a lot in blogging. Signup for the newsletter to get all the tutorials directly in your inbox

In the meanwhile do let us know that you upgraded your wordpress blog to 3.0 or not?