by Amrinder | Oct 17, 2015 | Tips and Tricks, Wordpress |
Flourish your online community with these WordPress plugins!
Across the Internet, there are many membership websites that are a good source of recurring income for their owners. WordPress, no doubt has made this possible with its different and powerful plugins. Without hiring a professional, you can use them with an ease and earn money.
In this post, I will introduce you with some best free and paid powerful WordPress plugins:
- S2 Member:
If you are looking to turn your WordPress site into a membership website then S2 Member plugin is the best option for you. This plugin will do the same within an hour. As soon as you install this plugin, you get a ‘quick start’ guide to learn the basics for setting up the membership option. You can easily set your membership levels for your website which will allow you to designate the parts of your website to different member levels.
Main features of S2 Member
- PayPal support
- Manual account creation support
- Content restriction support
- Membership levels and capabilities customization
- Multisite support
- Buddypress and bbpress compatibility
- DAP (Digital Access Pad):
If you are looking for a complete solution to create membership websites with WordPress and it was in the market from 2008. Dap has been updating its plugins and that’s why it is still hot potato. With DAP, you can create a secure as well as functional membership site and that too very easily.
Main features of DAP
- Content protection
- 2-tier affiliate system
- Built in auto responder
- Allows emailing and job queuing
- Free installation
- RSS feeds security
- Optimizer Member:
Optimizer plugin is the best one to create high converting sales pages, webinar pages, landing pages and membership sites etc. Though this plugin does not offer you many features but it has got some most interesting and important functionality.
Main features of Optimizer Member
- Download restrictions
- Own coupon codes
- Customization of membership levels
- ShareASale and other tracking solution integrationpayment gateways
- Supports PayPal, Clickbank and other payment gateways
- Member Mouse:
This plugin offers you with some default pages like home page, account page, checkout page etc. that you may need to use the membership. This plugin is loaded with features. Your customers can manage their accounts by their own and thus saving your time.
Main features of Member Mouse
- Content protection
- Trial offers and coupons of discount
- Lock out members for shared logins
- Payment handling
- Supports many
- Supports API
- iDevAffiliate integration
- Magic members:
Magic Members is the most popular plugin with loads of features. This plugin offers 3 bonuses, social icons. It has got an amazing security feature which stops multiple people from logging into a single account.
Main features of Magic members
- Membership levels
- Supports Amazon S3
- Payment gateways support
- Pay per post access
- Import and export options
by Amrinder | Oct 13, 2015 | technology |
Why to defend internet freedom in India?
What is this term “Net neutrality?
In simple words, it is a principle according to which the internet service providers should enable the access to all the applications and content regardless of the source. And also they should not block or favor particular websites or products.
Due to this principle, in India, people can have access to internet and gain knowledge freely. They have the freedom of speech and freedom to use internet. As every internet customer has equal right to access the lawful websites and services without any discrimination.
How can Net Neutrality be violated?
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is planning to allow the telecom companies like Airtel, Vodafone etc. to block websites and some other services or applications for extorting more and more money from customers. And if this happens, this would be an extreme violation of this principle, Net Neutrality.
Why Net Neutrality should not be violated?
Now when you know what the term Net Neutrality means and how TRAI is planning to violate this. Also, Airtel has come up with Zero Marketing Platform. According to this, the Airtel users can use and access those websites or applications (tied -up with Airtel) at zero data charges.
The debate on Net Neutrality has turned out to be a fight against common Indian citizen and big telecom companies. In a democratic country like India it is quite unfair to be a bit ambitious for these big telecom companies. As they only want to make money at any cost and this is not only unfair but also not-ethical for the betterment of the country.
If Net Neutrality is being violated, there will be Internet Discrimination in India. According to Airtel’s Zero marketing platform, one cannot access the websites or applications which will not be allowed by the company.
At the same time, this may have negative impact on startups. Since the country like India, many of the startup businesses may depend on internet only for their sales. And if this freedom of internet gets violated, these starters may get discouraged.
So, in a democratic and developing country like India, Internet access should not be under these private companies so that each and every citizen can enjoy the freedom of speech and freedom of using internet.
by Amrinder | Oct 8, 2015 | Wordpress |
Build a dazzling website using these WordPress themes!
The most responsive and preferred platform for website development these days is no doubt….WordPress! It has got some amazing features, plugins and themes which help you to design a spectacular website for you. WordPress offers exceptionally responsive and easy to use themes. These themes help you to create your website whether it is for blog, personal, professional or portfolio.
Listed below are some finest free of cost WordPress themes:
- Sparkling: The design of this theme is based on latest bootstrap technology. It provides your website with an eye catchy and modern look. It has got very sharp design on mobile devices. It offers you with a slider, with which you can highlight your photos or some other creative content in your website. Also it has gosome powerful plugins like Gravity forms, Contact Form 7 etc.
- Optimizer: With this theme, you can customize your website with optimum satisfaction. This theme lets you to customize every single element of your website and that too very easily. It is also compatible with your mobile phones. This theme is quite responsive and is retina ready by default. Optimizer theme offers you many features for website development, be it blogging, portfolio or services website.
- Future-Lite: A multipurpose theme, full of features is a perfect one for creative websites like portfolios or businesses. It has got very responsive layout and offers you great visibility in any of the device you use. This theme looks sharp on devices with high resolution and is also retina ready. It offers you with custom menu, Sidebar widget, theme options, featured image and pagination etc.
- Dazzling: A responsive and mobile friendly theme, based on Bootstrap 3 technology. It offers you a full screen slider which is optional and is useful to design creative websites. With its mint green accent colors, it gives a soothing and refreshing touch to your eyes. It has gort some popular plugins like Jetpack, WordPress SEO etc. to enhance its utility.
- Travelify: This theme offers a sleek and trendy look to your website. This theme is quite competent with some first grade premium WordPress themes. Travelify is fully loaded with pixel-perfect design, slider, custom page and many more features. You can alter your website using this theme with different theme aspects. The theme is best suited for a person who loves to travel and writes blogs on it.
- Longform: This theme is a blessing for those who love to tell stories. It is quite compatible with powerful plugin named Aesop Story Engine. It offers you with beautiful styles with no extra configuration or code snippets. This theme is quite easy and powerful to use.
- Moesia: If you are looking forward to build a website for your business purpose, this theme offers you with heaps of inbuilt features. In this theme, you can choose from 11 built in blocks and design your home page as you want. Also it offers you with a feature to add a background image for your homepage block. This theme is fully loaded with font styles, animation effects, layouts for your blog page etc.
by Amrinder | Oct 4, 2015 | technology |
It has been couple of months back in August when Google announced that in restructuring process, they will open a parent company called Alphabet. The reason behind the move was that, it will allow the different parts of their businesses to run independently.
Now it is official, that Google is a subsidiary of ALPHABET.
As a result of this, each stock of google will be now automatically converted to Alphabet stock.
Here is the full official statement released
Google Proceeds With Implementation of New Operating Structure
10/2/2015
Google Inc. announced today that, pursuant to its previously announced plans to create a new public holding company, Alphabet Inc. (“Alphabet”), by implementing a holding company reorganization (the “Alphabet Merger”), it expects that the Alphabet Merger will close after the close of business on October 2, 2015. Google anticipates that shares of Google Class C Capital Stock and shares of Google Class A Common Stock will begin trading as Alphabet Class C Capital Stock and Alphabet Class A Common Stock, respectively, on the NASDAQ Global Select Market on October 5, 2015. Shares of Alphabet Class C Capital Stock and shares of Alphabet Class A Common Stock will continue to be traded under the same ticker symbols under GOOG and GOOGL, respectively.
Update: The Alphabet merger is now effective. For more information on the merger, please see Alphabet’s Form 8-K filed on October 2, 2015.
Google’s business which includes Search, YouTube, Maps etc. will all be now a subsidiary of Alphabet.Moreover, each of these will have their own different CEO.
by Amrinder | Oct 3, 2015 | Code Snippets, Tips and Tricks, Wordpress |
Moving a wordpress website is one of the common jobs in the freelance websites since many years.There are many blogs and tutorials explaining the process in detail either by video or by image presentation.
In this post, I will explain the basic steps to bear in mind while moving a wordpress website which are necessary to avoid any future problems.
- Always take a full backup of the website and database to be moved so that in case you run into any problems there is always a way back saving your precious hard work.
- Upload the files in the server.
- Update the htaccess file.
- If your current website is in the root of the main domain like for example it is as www.www.developingsense.com and it is to be moved to another domain for example www.thedeveloping.in, then there is no such need of updating the .htaccess file.
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
&amp;amp;lt;/IfModule&amp;amp;gt;
# END WordPress
But if your current website is in the root directory of the domain and it has to be moved in any other folder of another domain like www.thedeveloping.in/wordpress, then the .htaccess has to be updated.
#BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /theme/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /theme/index.php [L]
# END WordPress
- Now upload the exported database file to the new hosting using phpmyadmin.Do not forget to change the wp-options table rows. There you have to update the new website url in two places saying site_url and home_url.
- Now update the wp-config.php file in the root of the directory where wordpress is installed.Here you to write the new database name, hostname, username and password. This is where the database connection error occurs if it is not updated correctly.ik
Above are some of the basic steps we have to take care of while moving the wordpress website. Like we know, during migration many types of problems may occur due to different server configurations and thus never hesitate to follow up in the comments section below and i will be more than happy to help you out in that.
Any suggestions or mistakes found in this post reported will be appreciated.
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