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Below you will find a listing of all tutorials written by our staff.

Secure your WordPress wp-config.php File

Tutorials | May 11, 2012 | No Comments Yet |

The wp-config.php file is the most important file to protect on your site. It contains your username, password, and database name (among other things) for your WordPress install and by default, is accessible from any web browser. Try it. Enter http://www.yourwebsite.com/wp-config.php and you should see a blank white page (if ...
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Setting up ‘Submit Coupon’ Links

Clipper, Tutorials | April 12, 2012 | No Comments Yet |

Clipper 1.3 provides two convenient locations for adding pre-styled "Submit a Coupon" links. Sidebar Previous to Clipper 1.3, a "Share a Coupon" button was hard coded at the top of each sidebar. Starting in version 1.3, this button is now available as a sidebar widget. Now you can decide which sidebars include this coupon shar...
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Enable PayPal PDT (Payment Data Transfer)

Tutorials | March 5, 2012 | No Comments Yet |

Using PDT, we are able to offer an even higher level of security for PayPal transactions. PDT is completely optional in Vantage. We recommend the use of PDT, but you can rest assured that if you choose not to use PDT, your PayPal transactions will still be very secure. Below are the instructions on how to enable PDT for your ...
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How to Reset MySQL Root Password

Tutorials | December 26, 2011 | No Comments Yet |

If you've ever forgotten or misplaced your mySQL root password, there's a handy trick to resetting it. This tutorial assumes you have SSH command line access to your server with super user (sudo) permissions and able to edit using vim (or nano). Step 1 After you've logged in, let's create the simple sql script that will ...
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Save the Users Last Login Date and Time

Tutorials | December 15, 2011 | 1 Comment |

If you've ever wanted to capture and display your WordPress users last login date and time, this tutorial is for you. It's a great way to see how active your current user base is, if certain customers ever logged in, and for security audit purposes. This tutorial assumes you know how to edit your theme's functions.php file. ...
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Using Theme Language Files

Tutorials | December 8, 2011 | 1 Comment |

If you'd like to use our themes in another language, it's pretty easy to do. This tutorial assumes you already have a .mo file in your language and you're ready to upload it to your AppThemes site. In this example, we want to change JobRoller to Brazilian Portuguese. Here are the steps you need to take. Step 1 Download t...
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How to 301 Redirect Non-www to www URLs

Tutorials | September 9, 2011 | No Comments Yet |

In the eyes of search engines, http://appthemes.com and http://www.appthemes.com are considered different websites. So if other websites link to yours using non-www and www urls, you are effectively diluting your Google page rank and losing the benefit of valuable inbound link juice. Step 1 How can I tell if other websites a...
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Improve WordPress Performance

Tutorials | August 20, 2011 | No Comments Yet |

Does your WordPress site take a long time to load? Wondering what could be the problem? Well, honestly, it could be a number of things and here are a few ways to troubleshoot and improve your page load performance. Find the Culprit The first step to improving performance, is to identify what's causing the slow-down in the fi...
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Add a Google Plus One Button to Your Theme

Tutorials | August 9, 2011 | No Comments Yet |

The following tutorial will explain how to automatically insert a Google +1 button at the bottom of every post and page. There are a few different parameters available so you can easily change things such as button size, language, count, and callback. See the Google +1 configuration page for more information. Step 1 Open and...
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Translating a WordPress Theme

Tutorials | August 7, 2011 | No Comments Yet |

Our themes are built to easily translate all text into your native language. They leverage the same gettext libraries as WordPress uses which means seamless integration and similar instructions. When it comes to localizing/translating any of our themes, we recommend using PoEdit. You can find full details on how to do thi...
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