Let’s say you built a very nice site on WordPress.com and you realized that you need to smarten up and move it to a self-hosted version of WordPress using WordPress.org.  Yes there is an “EXPORT” function that allows you to take all the content from WP.com to WP.org site but all the media files that you have uploaded are simply exported as a link to the file that stays on your WP.com site.  This means that if you ever shut down your WP.com site all the images and media files on your WP.org site will not be displayed.

The steps below will show you how to download all of your Media that belongs in your posts and pages.

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STEP 1:

Log into your WordPress.com site and export all content into an XML file.  Click here for full instructions on how to export all content.

STEP 2:

Open your XML file with any text editor.  If you do not have one you can download one for free HERE.  One it is open inside of your text editor, do Save As media.html.  File name does not have to be Media but what ever name you choose, it must have the HTML extension.

STEP 3:

Download the Fire Fox browser add-on Down Them All.  If you do not have Fire Fox installed on your machine you can get it HERE.  Once you have installed Down Them All restart your browser and add it to the browser toolbar by clicking on the top left Firefox > Options > Toolbar Layout.

STEP 4:

Open the media.html file in your Firefox browser and click on the the Down Them All icon in your toolbar.  It will crawl all the links and put them in a window for you to download them.  See image below on the filters you should select to capture the media only.  Choose where to download the files and click on Start.

STEP 5:

Now that you have all the media file on your hard rive we have to get them into your WP.org site.  This is where it becomes a bit tricky to follow closely.  You must FTP into your WP.org site.  You can use Filezilla to get FTP access to your site.  Once you are in, navigate to the uploads folder.  Path should be something like /wp-content/uploads.  Inside the uploads folder create a new folder called Media or whatever you like.  Open this folder and drop in all the files you downloaded in step 4.

STEP 6:

Now we have to change the file paths for all this media on your WP.org site.  When you import your XML file to your WP.org site it creates paths to the images that look like this http://DOMAIN.files.wordpress.com/YEAR/MONTH/.   These paths are pointing back to your WP.com site and we don’t want that. We need to install a plugin that will search for these paths and replace them with our new path /wp-content/uploads/Media(or whatever you named folder)/

Install Plugin Search and Replace HERE.

1. Backup your database.  Use this PLUGIN to do so.
2. Goto Search and Replace plugin settings via Tools > Search & Replace
3. In Search for field enter http://DOMAIN.files.wordpress.com/YEAR/MONTH/
4. Click on field radio button in All -search/replace! selection
5. In Replace with field enter /wp-content/uploads/Media(or whatever you named folder)/
6. Click Go

Depending on how many years and months that you have on your WP.com site you will need to repeat the process above change the Year & Month each time.

That’s It!

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You can usually spot a WordPress website from a mile away from it’s wide area slider on the home page.  Be different and unique by using one of the SUPER SLEEK slider plugins below for your WordPress site.

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1. WP Slideshow Gallery

With the WordPress slideshow gallery plugin you can embed a slideshow gallery into any WordPress post/page with the use of the “sideshow” shortcode. You can hardcode a slideshow gallery into any of the PHP files of your WordPress theme using just a few lines of code. This WordPress Slider plugin have thumbs below the image being presented, text overlay and looks pretty cool – and then it is completely free.

DOWNLOAD / DEMO – by tribulant.net (free plugin)

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2. CCSLIDER WP

CCSlider WP makes it easy to embed the CCSlider jQuery slideshow plugin in your WordPress theme. CCSlider is an unique slideshow plugin because of the fact that it supports 3d transitions! There are 10 stunning 3d transitions available, and also 10 stylish 2d transitions.

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3. UBILLBOARD WORDPRESS SLIDER

uBillboard is a Premium Slider for WordPress. It is a jQuery based slider with a multitude of transitions and options for you to be able to customize it to your needs while not overwhelming you with options you never wanted or needed. Version 3 is a revolutionary release with most of the codebase rewritten from scratch. This has enabled us to integrate many features that you have been requesting during the first year. Make sure you see this WordPress Slider demo in action!

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4. SLIDER PRO – WORDPRESS SLIDER PLUGIN

Slider PRO is one of the most powerful slider plugins for WordPress on the market (some buyers have been saying that it’s actually the best). The slider offers you 100+ customizable properties, 100+ possible transition effects, 10+ skins and much more. Also, the slider’s administration area is very powerful and uses the default WordPress design, which WordPress users are already familiar with. This slider plugin is carefully coded, using WordPress development best practices, to avoid conflicts with other themes and plugins that are well coded. Please take a look at the list of features at the feature page.

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5. SLIDER EVOLUTION FOR WORDPRESS

Slider Evolution is a JQuery plugin that lets you easily create powerful javascript sliders with very nice transition effects. Enhance your website by adding a unique and attractive slider! Create an unlimited number of sliders with customized settings for each one, and place them anywhere on your WordPress website with ease.

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6. ESTRO – JQUERY WORDPRESS SLIDER

“Estro” meaning “creativity”, “talent” or “inspiration”, in Italian, is a fitting moniker for this beautiful slider. For the design of this slider we wanted to create a price of work which could form the centerpiece of your next web project. A starting point, who?s design and execution would inspire you and supercharge your own work.

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7. DDSLIDER for WORDPRESS

Manage your slides the way you want, don’t depend on pages and posts. Upload Images via AJAX direct from the slide manager page. Over 11 different transitions.

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8. KEN BURNS WORDPRESS SLIDESHOW

With cool features and effects this WordPress slider can become the perfect way to showcase your products.

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9. WORDPRESS SLIDER GALLERY SHORTCODE

This plugin creates a new shortcode for WordPress. With this new shortcode, you can create a slider gallery in seconds just by typing [slider] while you’re writing your post or page. The slider will display the images that you have uploaded to the current post or page. If you need more options, this simple shortcode features multiple attributes that you can set

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10. SMOOTH SLIDER

11. WORDPRESS LI JQUERY SLIDER

liJQuery Image Slider plugin for WordPress is carefully crafted slider/banner image rotator, full of features, easy to install and customize. It comes with intuitive – user friendly WordPress admin interface.

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12. SUGAR SLIDER – WORDPRESS SLIDER

Sugar Slider makes it as easy as it could possibly be to create gorgeous sliders for your WordPress powered site. Forget nasty custom fields and image URLs. You can even forget about manually resizing every image before you upload it. With a huge list of features, Sugar Slider is on of the most advanced and powerful WordPress slider manager.

DOWNLOAD / DEMO– by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)

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13. FLIP BOOK WORDPRESS SLIDER

Flip Book WordPress Pluginis based is on XML Flip Book / AS3 one of the three top selling items of all times on ActiveDen . It has been built from scratch. Almost everything you see on the page is easily customizable through the WordPress administration panel – easy installation, no coding skills required.

DOWNLOAD / DEMO – by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)

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14. FEATURED POSTS WORDPRESS SLIDER

Show off your content the real way – in a slider! This WordPress slider includes 6 predefined layouts and allows you to customize layouts with 18 variables. Intuitive admin GUI with inline help.

DOWNLOAD / DEMO– by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)

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15. ROYALSLIDER

RoyalSlider for WordPress is a cross-device jQuery content slider with touch-based navigation and fluid layout. It has user-friendly admin area where you can manage slides, change slider settings, customize interface and add blocks-captions using custom WYSIWIG editor.

DOWNLOAD / DEMO– by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)

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These slider can really make your site look different than others out there.  Not only are they beautiful but they are also easy to setup and manage.  Are there others out there that are not in this list?  If so leave a comment below and share it.

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There are 1000s of WordPress Plugins available to make your site do magic.  Some work really well and other cause HUGE conflicts or even worse (to me) slow page loading.  I have decided to put together a very basic list of my Top 5 WordPress Plugins that I feel should be installed on every site.

These Plugins also cover some of the major Plugin categories like:

• Backup
• Administrative Area
• Social Sharing
• SEO
• Blogging

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1. WP DB Backup (Backup)

WP-DB-Backup allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database tables. You may also backup other tables in the same database.  The coolest thing about this plugin for me is that you can schedule your backups and have them happen without lifting a finger.  You can have them saved on your server or email to your inbox.  It’s super lightweight and so easy to use.

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2. Admin Menu Editor (Administrative Area)

It’s a WordPress plugin that will let you manually edit the Dashboard menu. You can reorder the menus, show/hide specific items, change access rights, and more. The plugin is still a bit rough around the edges, so a good understanding of WP internals is recommended (but not required).  This is great if you are a developer and when you hand over your site to clients, you can reorder the admin area menu to make it more user friendly and even hide some of the developer options that they will not need or if they messed with them, could adjust the site.  I LOVE THIS ONE!!!!

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3. Twitter Facebook Social Share (Social Sharing)

This plugin is the most efficient way to integrate the important social share buttons like twitter, facebook like, google +1 (plus one) and stumbleupon in three different position and styles. The biggest selling point of this plugin is the placing of javascript in the code which are required by this social share buttons. The biggest sin most of the developers do is place the call to script where they display the plugin or load the javascript in header.  I have used this on over 100 sites and have never had a conflict.

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4. All in One SEO Pack (SEO)

There are many WordPress SEO Plugins out there and most of them are really useful tools for driving more traffic to your website.  I have used a good amount of all of them and find that the All in One SEO Pack Plugin works the best and is the easiest to setup and manage.  It makes creating Meta Tags for each page and post a breeze and if you want to spend a few extra pennies you can upgrade from the FREE version to the Pro version for $40 which adds a few more power features.  No need to go Pro though as the FREE version has what it takes to make your WordPress site ROCKING in the Search Engines.

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5. MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer (Blogging)

THIS IS MY FAVORITE PLUGIN OF ALL TIME AND WILL QUADRUPLE YOUR TRAFFIC

“Whenever a blog pings, many background processes happen which get your blog quickly indexed by search engines as well as bringing traffic from many other sources.”  Indexed means that the Search Engines know about you.

By default WordPress pings whenever you post a new topic in your blog. That’s fine and that’s what we want.  But do you know WordPress also pings whenever you edit and update any existing post?  If you edit a post 10 times then WordPress will send 10 pings. It doesn’t matter how small or big a change you make, WordPress always pings whenever you edit.

IT’S VERY DANGEROUS and if you edit your blog a lot then your blog will be banned from ping services because of excessive pinging.  While pinging there’s no way to show which post has been updated. The ping command always sends the home page link of the blog.  So, it’s simply useless and actually harms your blog if you ping whenever you update any existing post.  This plugin corrects the pinging process and makes sure that you only ping content as needed.

Read a full article I did on this plugin and download a Ping list to use with it.  CLICK HERE

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Achieving a good Alexa Rank (alongside with a good Google Pagerank) is a goal every webmaster should set from the start. Except from having a great strategy for your blog content, you need to write interesting readable articles – or people will skip to the next blog with similar content. But… You also need a couple of good plug-ins in order to take your blog to the finish line. Below I have compiled a list of WordPress plug-ins you should consider using. Some will help you with your rank, others are there to keep an eye on the stats for you.

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Bloggers love WordPress! If you’re ready to start using this free blogging software, WordPress For Dummies, 2nd Edition is just what you and your blog need to make a splash. Learn how to use all the latest upgrades to WordPress and helps you decide whether to use the WordPress.com hosted service or self-host your blog with WordPress.org. Whether you’re just venturing into the blogosphere or you want to shift an existing blog to WordPress, WordPress For Dummies, 2nd Edition will help. Explore theme development and learn where to find free WordPress themes Extend WordPress through plug-ins, CSS, custom fields, and more Find out about archiving, interacting with readers through comments, tracking back, and handling spam.

Get the scoop on domain registration, Web hosting providers, basic tools like FTP, and more Create a unique blog theme and presentation by using template tags with CSS Sign up for WordPress.com, log in, set options, and create a profile Install WordPress.org, set up a MySQL database, explore RSS feeds, and organize a blogroll Discover the secrets of creating a blog that draws readers Get tips on wonderful widgets, upgrades, and plugins you can add to make your blog extra cool Learn how to use the Dashboard, manage comments, and make permalinks work with your Web server With WordPress For Dummies, 2nd Edition on hand, it’s easy to make the most of the free software and build a blog that stands out in a crowd.

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You can truncate blog entries so that only the first part of certain posts is displayed on the home and archive views. When you do this, a link will be placed directly after your excerpt, pointing the reader to the full content of the article.

You can find the More Tag button in the first row of the visual editor toolbar or by pressing Alt+Shift+T:

Using the More tag

1) Go to Posts -> Add New in your dashboard to create a new blog entry (this does not work with Pages).

2) Begin writing your post. When you decide that you want to cut it off, insert the More tag to split the post (mark where the excerpt officially ends). You will see the More Tag as such in the visual editor:’

3) Finish writing your post.

4) Publish the post and view the front page of your blog. You should see your post effectively split using the More Tag. Note that the more tag is not displayed in post previews, since previews display posts in entirety, but the more tag will appear once the post has been published.

Click on the link, and you will be taken to the post in its full form. The front page of your blog should display the post similar to:

But wait, there’s more!

You can further customize the message that displays in the link to the full post content.

You will need to do this in the HTML view of your editor. Once you have changed to the HTML editor, look for this code:

<!--more-->

Custom Read More Message

To customize the message, simply add a space after <!--more, and turn it into something like this…

<!--more But wait, there's more-->

The front page of your blog should now display your post as such:

Note: You will need to customize the message for each post. You cannot declare a global message that will take effect on each post of your blog that uses the More Tag.

Formatting Issues

If the More Tag is inserted after writing a post, formatting errors can occur. The issue occurs when you insert the More Tag using the visual editor, but it is actually placed within another HTML tag. As an example:

<strong>Oh man, this post is messed up.<!--more--></strong>

The above will cause the rest of the posts on your front page (or in an archive) to be formatted as bold, sometimes including your sidebar contents. Not cool. It can also make the sidebar fall to the bottom of the page. To fix the issue, just place the More Tag on the outside of any pesky closing HTML tags, like so:

<strong>Oh man, this post is messed up.</strong><!--more-->

Make sure to go into the HTML view of the problematic post and move your More Tag to outside of any HTML tags (this includes div, strong, em, etc…).

Note: Copying and pasting content from rich text editors such as Microsoft Word often causes problems because a lot of extra HTML is used that can interfere with the More tag. Consider using a plain text editor, such as Notepad, instead or use the Paste from Word button.

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Check out this GREAT Plugin that does this automatically.

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After long and frequent update WordPress is finally out with it’s latest updated version WordPress 3.3 Sonny to boost bloggers experience making life more easier while composing article or managing any part of the blog installed on WordPress.

This update is called as Sonny update which came from an American jazz saxophonist named Edward Sonny Stitt.

According to previous reports from the WordPress itself this Update was scheduled to happen in November but due to hidden reasons it gone live today on 13/12/2011 for common users who blogs on WordPress Platform.

I was personally thinking why WordPress not notified for so long showing message like “WordPress 3.xyz is Available” and I will install the same to experience new changes but now I moved to WordPress 3.3 and sharing the changes with all of you, doesn’t matter if you are not holding any wordpress blog or site for you business but matters a lot to them who have.

WordPress 3.2.1 Vs WordPress 3.3 Sonny

If you are a blogger blogging on the wordpress platform will be aware about the features of wordpress 3.2.1 well enough due to a long time break between new updated version of wordpress 3.3 Sonny and that’s why I will not go in detail describing about the difference in features both versions are serving to it’s users.

• WordPress 3.2.1 was not time saving as it’s3.3 sonny version is all about.
• WordPress 3.2.1 was not friendly during media uploads while 3.3 sonny is in support.
• WordPress 3.2.1 was expanding menus after click while in wordpress 3.3 sonny it’s working on mouseover.

New changes in WordPress 3.3

First of all when you will update to wordpress 3.3 it will notify about the overall changes opening a page just like above this line to welcome you to the new version and then you have to find out the changes by yourself and then you will need this article to understand about what is new in this update so just read on and know the changes step by step watching images.

#1. Welcome to WordPress 3.3

Just after installation of wordpress 3.3 sonny you will be redirected to a page where wordpress team have created a wonderful information about this new update what will be trending social media in coming weeks.

#2. Toolbar in WordPress 3.3

WordPress 3.3 Sonny version added a toolbar for showcasing new updates, comments & messages on the top of your wordpress dashboard so don’t get confused with the previous option that was available as a option to choose from your profile in wordpress 3.2.1 becaue it’s a new feature and you can’t edit it.

#3. Updated Media Uploader in WordPress 3.3

If you are planning to install wordpress 3.3 sonny version after reading this article don’t get confused for uploading images and othe media in posts because it’s modified and you will see an icon describing media and you also will be notified when go to add new post for the first time after installing this new updates version of wordpress.

#4. Drag and Drop feature in Media of WordPress 3.3

Now from the next time when you will upload your images and videos to your post using wordpress 3.3 Sonny version there will be an option available to make you eligible for uploading all the files just by using drag and drop feature just appeared.

#5. Import from Tumblr in WordPress 3.3

Now in wordpress 3.3 sonny version you can also import your data from the Tumblr installing their API, so don’t wait if you likes wordpress for blogging and still working there at the Tumblr platform.

#6. Footer in WordPress 3.3

#7. Saving widgets in WordPress 3.3

Saving widget feature is added to wordpress 3.3 sonny version where you will not lose your previous widget when you changed your mind and reverts back to your previous theme, so don’t be shocked getting your widget back as it was.

Note* - As you know that wordpress 3.3 sonny version is just out today and I was making fun around checking all the option and that fun gave me idea to write this article so don’t count this article as complete guide to new features wordpress 3.3 includes. You know I even got some other changes to but those were not life changing like date format when you will select to choose next schedule date and time of your article.

Previously in wordpress 3.2.1 I noticed that wordpress was making all it’s important page in front by putting them all in footer and now they thought to remove them because that was not in use by us for whom that was out there.

Hope you got all the point we mentioned above, if still do you have any question please go ahead and type the same in comments below because we will really love to see your words.

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The Shortcode-API can help to make your Editor more advance especially with the help of Shortcodes to insert external content to your posts or pages easily. There are many possibilities, an at the bottom of this post there is a list of plugins that you can instal to add shortcodes to your theme if they do not already have them.

But if sometimes you like to use a Shortcode in your Template or just don’t like to put it in the Editor, for example you like to insert it in the Custom Field or somewhere else. There is a function in WordPress which helps you to insert a shortcode somewhere else besides your Editor.

The easiest way to ru na short code directly inside one of your theme PHP files is to copy the code below, change out where it says “my_shortcode” with the shortcode name and place it where you would like the shortcode to display

[phpcode][/phpcode]

CLICK HERE FOR A FULL LIST OF SHORTCODE PLUGINS

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This plugin is perfect for managing Testimonials on your WordPress website or Blog. It is extremely light weight and easy to use. It has just the right amount of options that you need to display Testimonials in a slick way.

See it in full action click on the button below.

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Take a look at some of the screen shots below of how it looks.

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Download for FREE below.

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If you are anything like me, then you LOVE taking a word and turning it into a acronym.  I thought I would do this with the word WORDPRESS and give you 2 versions.  The 1st acronym will describe how lovely it is and the second will describe exactly what makes it powerful.  So check it out below.
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My acronym for describing the beauty of the WordPress Platform.

W – Wonderful
O – Outstanding
R – Refined
D – Dependable
P – Profitable
R – Radiant
E – Exceptional
S – Sophisticated
S – Sexy
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My acronym for describing the benefits of the WordPress Platform.

W – Widely used

According to WordPress.com’s statistics, there are 68,000,000 (sixty eight million) active installations of the WordPress software. I got this statistic from here:

http://en.wordpress.com/stats/

O – Open Source

Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is available in source code form: the source code and certain other rights normally reserved for copyright holders are provided under a software license that permits users to study, change, improve and at times also to distribute the software.

Open source software is very often developed in a public, collaborative manner. Open-source software is the most prominent example of open-source development and often compared to (technically defined) user-generated content or (legally defined) open content movements.

R – Results Driven

Over 322 million people view more than 2.5 billion WordPress pages each month.

D – Developer Friendly

Highly-available & scalable is why many developers and organizations are using WordPress, the popular open source CMS, to power their sites and blogs.

View Fortune 500 companies using WordPress at THIS LINK.

P – Production Magic

WordPress plugins allow you to do just about anything that you want and can be installed in a jiffy. For example, you want to paginate your blog posts, just look on Google and you can easily find the relevant plugin that will easily do the job for you.

R – Ready To Go

You will never run short of templates when using WordPress. If you don’t like the themes that come with the default installation of WordPress, you can hunt on the Internet and you will find thousands of free themes that you can download and use for your website. There are themes which can even make your website look like a regular site instead of a blog.

E – Easy To Use

You don’t really have to be experienced to use WordPress on your website. Nowadays most of the hosting companies provide the ability to install WordPress on your site at a single click of the mouse. The administration section is easy to navigate and its even easy to add articles/content to your website.

S – Safe & Secure

WordPress is one software that follows all the Web Standards and keeps your blog or website compliant to all the rules that have to be followed when running a website.

S – Supported

As per recent statistics, WordPress is used on more than 1% of the websites on the Internet in the world. There is a large user community backing the development of this software. So, whenever you face any problems, you can go through all the available WordPress forums and communities and find answers for all your questions.

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