How to backup wordpress database and files (step by step)

As you all know backup is more necessary in order to have a copy of your hard work so that you can easily restore in case you lose your files or even your site is hacked. There are many free and paid plugins to backup your wordpress database and files, but my question is why to use plugins when it’s easy to backup your wordpress database and files manually.
There are many ways to backup your files and database but this post just illustrates in simple easy steps. Here is the step by step method on how to backup your wordpress database and files manually.

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How to backup Blogger template and how to restore blogger template

Are you planning to make changes to your Blogger template? Good you should, because sites layout and its appearance are more important to catch your reader’s eyes. But before making changes to your Blogger template you must first backup your Blogger templates. In this post let’s see how to backup Blogger template and if anything goes wrong then how to restore Blogger template.
Backup is really essential for Bloggers. When editing there are chances for your template to crash and it will affect the complete site layout. At that instance you can revert it to your previous template by restoring it from backup. Backing up Blogger template is really simple as you can see below.

How to backup Blogger template

1. Login to your Blogger blog and select the blog to backup
2. In your blogs dashboard open templates
3. Now in the top right corner you can see Backup/Restore button
4. Open it and select download full template.
5. Name the template and choose location to save in your PC.

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How to recover deleted Blogger blog – Restore deleted blog in Blogger

Blogger is a free blogging tool with several limits where one can create up to 100 blogs per account. Since it is free and with a limit of 100 blogs, people create as many blogs on the go for several reasons. Such peoples later find difficulties managing their Blogger account and they finally end up deleting useless blogs. What if they missed some important details in their deleted blog? Here we will see how to recover deleted Blogger blog.
At times we too make such mistakes like deleting blogs and messing up with template codes by chance. That’s why it is necessary to have a backup of your Blogger blog and template files. Blogger provides you with an option to import blog, export blog and delete blog. In case if you just deleted a blog then you can easily restore it back. Yes! Blogger offers an option to restore your deleted Blogger blog before 90 days of deletion. If the deleted blog exceeds 90 days then it will be permanently removed from your Blogger account.

How to delete a Blogger blog

Here is how you delete a Blogger blog. Just login to your Blogger blog dashboard and go to settings >> other. Now you will see three options in blog tools.

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Changing highlighted text selection color in Blogger blog – CSS Trick

Want to show something different in your Blogger blog just like the running trucks then here you go. Here we will see a simple CSS trick that changes the highlighted text selection color in Blogger blog.
When you highlight several texts you can see the selected highlight color as sky blue and text color as white. This is default for all websites which might be pretty boring and so for wordpress users we made a simple tutorial on this topic.
For live demo: Highlight text in this blog
Now for Blogger let’s see how to change the highlighted text selection color that matches your blog color. By using this CSS code you can change the highlight selection color as well as text color in your Blogger blog.

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How to automatically redirect Blogger blog to another blog or website

A few posts back we made an article about Blogger custom redirects in which you can redirect within your blog. That is you can redirect your specific post URL to another post or page, all 301 or 302 redirection within your blog. That will be useful for redirecting 404 error pages and broken links; however with that you cannot redirect homepage to any particular URL. Here we will show you how to automatically redirect Blogger blog to another blog or website or any URL. So with this technique you can redirect your Blogger Homepage or any particular page to external websites.

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How to create sitemap for Blogger blog–Blogger sitemap XML

A Sitemap is nothing but a list of accessible pages in your website. Sitemaps helps search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing to easily crawl pages in your site which helps in better index. As a blogger you must create a sitemap so whenever you make a new post search engines can crawl and index them easily. In this post let’s see how to create sitemap for Blogger blog and submitting it to Google webmaster tools and in robots.txt.

Default Blogger sitemap

By default your blogger blog will have sitemap, but the issue with that sitemap is it only shows your recent blog posts (example). A perfect sitemap is that it should contain the list of all you pages so that search engines know the complete structure of your site. Let’s see how to create sitemap for Blogger blog.

How to create sitemap for Blogger

Creating sitemap is very simple and this sitemap works for both self-hosted Blogger blogs and normal Blogger blogs. Just use this

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Create & add custom robots.txt file in Blogger – Crawl & index

Have you ever heard the name robots.txt or have you added your own custom robots.txt file in your Blogger blog. Here we will discuss about what robots.txt is and how to create and add custom robots.txt file in Blogger. All that deals with crawling and indexing of your blog which covers your blog SEO, so take note on this article.
In Blogger you have a section called search preferences that covers your blogs Meta tags, errors /redirection & crawling and indexing. There you can manage your blogs view with search engines also to maintain a healthy blog you need to customize your blogs search preferences effectively. A few posts back we made an article on how to use Blogger custom redirects. In case if you had a broken links in your blog or if you changed your blog post URL then you can make use of Blogger custom redirects. Here let’s see about robots.txt and the use of adding custom robots.txt file in Blogger.

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How to put Google custom site search into your current website design

Until recently the free site search provided by Yahoo and Google were less than ideal. When a user searched from your website, they would be taken to a search results page that was jarringly different from the page where they entered their search query.
For example, let's look at SEOmoz.org, which has a beautiful design and a nice tight little search box so that their users can find anything at all they want on the SEOmoz website...

But when you put a search term (let's search for "Rand Fishkin") in that box and press "search," you get redirected to another page that is quite a lot less pretty..

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What the poop? Okay, the desired search results can be found, but wouldn't it rock if those results showed up more like this?...

The above image is using Google custom search results. It looks sweet, and since the results are integrated into the site design, it doesn't confuse anyone doing a search.

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How to add a widget or sticky post on top of posts on Blogger blog

How to add a widget or sticky post on top of posts on Blogger blog

This is an important piece of information for those want to create a sticky post or add a widget on top of the posts in the main page on Blogger blog. There is a easy way to do it.

A “sticky post” is a post that could be placed on top of your main page indefinitely, and normal posts will be posted below this. This page is used often to announce important information to the reader, such as a contest or upcoming event.

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Here are the easy steps.

1. Log on to your Blogger account and click "Layout" in your "Dashboard."

2. Select "Add a Page Element" (Add a Gadget) and choose "Text" and enter the details you want, you can also select "HTML/JavaScript and enter a code or select other options. After completing save the Page Element.

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Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo during a sub-orbital flight

  Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo during a sub-orbital flight

An artist's conception of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo during a sub-orbital flight into space is pictured in this undated publicity photograph from Virgin Galactic.

Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic are set to unveil SpaceShipTwo on December 7, 2009 at the Mojave Spaceport in Mojave, California. The six-passenger vehicle will undergo test flights in 2010 and start commercial flights between 2011 and 2012.

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Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo

An artist's conception of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo (vehicle in bottom of image) as it is released from its mothership WhiteknightTwo is pictured in this undated handout photograph from Virgin Galactic.

Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic are set to unveil SpaceShipTwo on December 7, 2009 at the Mojave Spaceport in Mojave, California. The six-passenger vehicle will undergo test flights in 2010 and start
commercial flights between 2011 and 2012. REUTERS/Courtesy Virgin

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Windows Explorer Shortcut Keys

                             Windows Explorer Shortcut Keys

- ALT+D - Select the Address Bar

- ALT+F4 - Close Active window

- ALT+ENTER - Open the website address that is typed in the Address Bar in new tab

- ALT + Tab - to shift focus to the next active program


- Windows Key+ E - Open Explorer Windows

- Windows Key+ R - Open Run Windows

- Windows Key + M - Minimize All Windows

- Windows Key + Shift + M - Undo Minimize All Windows

- Windows Key + D - Show the Desktop

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- CTRL+ENTER - Add "http://www." to the beginning and ".com" to the end of text in Address Bar

- CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER - Add "http://www." to the beginning and the website address suffix you have specified to the end of text in the Address Bar*


- F4 - View list of previously typed addresses

- F5 – Refresh Active window

- F6 - Moves among panes in Windows Explorer

- F11 - to put the current program into Full Screen Mode

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How to create a Google account

                                   How to create a Google account

Why do you need a Google account? Though Google started off as a search engine company, over the years it has launched many services including the famous Gmail email with 1GB storage, Google Talk, Google Calendar, Blogger, iGoogle, RSS Reader etc. that do require you to create a Google account. The process is quite simple - involves filling up a short online form and we shall go over this in a moment.

Also, creating a Google account is 100% free and the same login details can be used to access all the other services including the recently launched Google web pages for personal profiles.

Create a Google account in a couple of minutes

Go to the Google Accounts page at https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount which displays a short form with only 5 fields. All you need to do it enter your existing email address, a password, select your location and check the terms of service.
Don't have an email address yet?If you don't own an email address yet, I suggest you refer to get Gmail address for step by step instructions. By the way, a Gmail email address is not a prerequisite for a Google Account - any email account will do.

A note on selecting a password
The password is the key to you Google account - you cannot afford to lose it. The password should be easy for you to remember and difficult for others to guess it outright. As you can understand, the names of your spouse or children serve as very bad passwords. Though a mix of upper and lower case letters with numbers and symbols can create a complex password, it might be difficult for you to recall. I strongly advise you to note the password in a safe place and refer to it if you ever forget. You should have no difficulty in remembering it when you've used it for a few times.

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Coming back to the Google Account form, select your country of residence and enter the wavy text you see in the field with the small disability icon. Hit the "I accept. Create my account" button when done.

Newly created Google account isn't ready yet!
The process hasn't ended.Your newly created Google account is not yet ready for use. You need to activate it. When you successfully filled and submitted the new account form a message is automatically sent by Google to the email address you had specified. This message contains instructions for Google account activation. Check your email account; remember to also look in the spam and junk email folder because sometimes messages are caught by the spam filter and made to skip the inbox.

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Windows - Operating System

                                   Windows - Operating System

The operating system (OS) that runs all your programs and allows you to easily interact with your PC is called Windows for a good reason.

It allows you to work with several different items and programs at once, all in their own 'window'. A window is like a smaller screen contained within a box on your main screen.
When you are working with a window it is brought to the 'front' of the screen, overlapping the Desktop and any other items behind it, so that you can focus on whatever is in the window.

In this way, you can have several windows open at the same time containing different programs that can be opened, closed, and re-arranged across the screen. This means you can do multiple tasks at the same time, such as listening to an audio program while writing an e-mail for example.

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Operating System Types

There are many types of operating systems. The most common is the Microsoft suite of operating systems. They include from most recent to the oldest:

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History of Computer

                                           History of Computer

Nearly 5,000 years ago the abacus emerged in Asia Minor. The abacus may be considered the first computer. This device allowed its users to make computations using a system of sliding beads arranged on a rack. Early shopkeepers used the abacus to keep up with transactions. The use of pencil and paper spread, the abacus lost its importance. Nearly twelve centuries past before the next important advance in computing devices emerged.

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In 1642, Blaise Pascal, the 18-year-old son of a French tax collector, invented what he called a numerical wheel calculator to help his father with his duties. The Pascaline, a brass rectangular box, used eight movable dials to add sums up to eight figures long. Pascal's device used a base of ten to achieve this. The disadvantage to the Pascaline, of course, was its limitation to addition. In 1694, Gottfried Wilhem von Leibniza a German mathematician and philosopher improved the Pascaline by creating a machine that could also multiply. Like its predecessor, Leibniz's mechanical multiplier worked by a system of gears and dials.

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Mobile Phone (Cell Phone) Security Tips

                       Mobile Phone (Cell Phone) Security Tips

Just as it’s too late to lock the barn if your horse has already run off, it’s too late to think about security if you’re already under attack. Fortunately, it is not too late to secure your mobile data, and protecting your Windows Mobile powered devices is not difficult.

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Bluetooth

When you use computers, entertainment systems or telephones, the various pieces and parts of the systems make up a community of electronic devices. These devices communicate with each other using a variety of wires, cables, radio signals and infrared light beams, and an even greater variety of connectors, plugs and protocols.

There are lots of different ways that electronic devices can connect to one another.

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History of Mobile Phones (Cell Phones)

History of Mobile Phones (Cell Phones)

The inventor of the first modern portable handset is Dr Martin Cooper, who was the general manager for the systems division at Motorola at that time. In 1973, Dr Cooper made the first call on a portable cell phone. He called his rival Joel Engel, head of research at Bell Labs, to give him the latest news on how the competition between them was turning out. The picture on left represents him and his first mobile phone.

The first commercial handheld cellular phone was launched by Motorola in 1983, and weighed 28 ounces. The device could be purchased for a price of ‘only’ $3,995!

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In the 1990s, 2G mobile system appeared, such as GSM, IS-136, iDEN and IS-95. Along with the new way of information transmitting, a new trend of small 100–200g handheld devices started replacing the brick-sized phones. The change could be made thanks to technology advancement, which included smaller batteries and more energy-efficient electronics. Above it’s a picture of Nokia 100, the company’s first major cell phone product, which was a 1G phone.

In 1995, Nokia 2110 was the first mobile phone in the world to use vibrations, had dimensions of 148 x 56 x 25 mm and a weight of 236g. A year later, its older relative, the 6110, was the first phone to have ‘Snake’ installed.

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Speed Up Your Site - Optimize Images

                Speed Up Your Site - Optimize Images
One of the main reasons why websites and blogs load slowly is because images are not optimized. Sites containing large number of images sometimes freeze while opening. Using an online image optimizer, you can decrease the file size of your images before loading to your blog or website.

Image formats like JPG, PNG and GIF have good compression results. There are couple of useful online image optimization tools which could be used to compress your images.

Web Resizer

Resize your photos easily online. For use in email, blogs, websites. No complex software to download. Resize photos online anytime. web or email. Easy to use. Amazing results!

Allow you to optimize images up to 5 MB size.

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Features of Web Resizer

• reduce image size
• crop photos
• sharpen
• resize - change width and height
• rotate
• adjust contrast, brightness, saturation
• convert photo to black and white
• add a border
• no registration required
• free!

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8 Tips For Creating Dynamic Blog Post Title To Ignite Twitter Retweet

  8 Tips For Creating Dynamic Blog Post Title To Ignite Twitter Retweet

Twitter is about making the world smaller generating efficient communication within the 140 characters at a time. Generally most of whom are live on Twitter are either in their workplaces doing their duties or attending to other responsibilities while keeping an eye on twitter. So if you need to grab the attention of your busy followers your tweet should outshine and stand out and this is where the Dynamic Post Title comes in.

First important fact we have to understand is all what we tweet is not going to be read at the first instance, therefore retweets (RT) become important so that your tweets can reach a maximum audience as possible.

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Sometimes followers could initiate RTs only by reading your post title in your tweet. Therefore it is vital to have a Dynamic Post Title which could set off RTs.

I use the following tips as my guide to create most of my post titles. Here are the Top 8 Tips For Creating  Dynamic Blog Post Titles To Ignite Twitter Retweets.

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HTML Code to Align Widget to Left, Right or Center

      HTML Code to Align Widget to Left, Right or Center
In general for all types of Bloggers it is usually those simple tips that help to modify the blogs and keep them in a neat and clean format. Therefore we are always on the look for such tips and information. This is one of those simple codes which can align your widgets to left, right or centre. So, check this out.

These are the codes:

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Align your widget to center

<div align="center">
Your widget code here...
</div>

Align your widget to right

<div align="right">
Your widget code here...
</div>

Align your widget to left

<div align="left">
Your widget code here...

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How to add Meta Tags to a Blogger Blog

             How to add Meta Tags to a Blogger Blog

Meta tagsntroduce your site or blog to search engines. Meta tags communicate with the search engines and give more details about your site. These tags are vital especially if you are running a website or blog to make sure that search engines can easily find your site and index the pages more accurately.

Adding meta tags is very important in order to get more traffic from search engines like Google, Yahoo and others. Adding meta search tags are not the only element for SEO (Search Engine Optimization), yet they still play an important role.

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Step-1
Log into your Blogger account with your username and password. Once you are in your blog's dashboard click the 'layout' button (see the screenshot below)

Step-2
Look under the Layout tab and click on the 'Edit HTML' tab.

Step-3

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Step 6 – Add A Visitor Tracking Widget To Your Blog Sidebar

Why Use Visitor Tracking Widgets?

It’s likely that your blog gets visitors from around the world.
But unless you find ways of displaying visitor numbers and their geographical locations, your students won’t appreciate that they’re publishing posts for a global audience.
Benefits include:

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• Knowing you’re writing for a global audience is incredibly motivating for students.
• Realizing people from other countries are reading what they’ve written increases their interest, excitement and motives them to blog.
• It also provides built-in geography lessons — as most students constantly check for new visitors and enjoy finding out more about the countries where their visitors are from.

There’s numerous different types of visitor tracking widgets you can use, and it isn’t uncommon for teachers and students to use more than one type on their blogs.
Below are the most commonly used ones with instructions on how to install.
Please note:
All visitor tracking widgets require you to add embed code to a text widget
To be able to add the embed do you need to be either using:

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Step 6 – Add A Visitor Tracking Widget To Your Blog Sidebar

Why Use Visitor Tracking Widgets?

It’s likely that your blog gets visitors from around the world.
But unless you find ways of displaying visitor numbers and their geographical locations, your students won’t appreciate that they’re publishing posts for a global audience.
Benefits include:

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• Knowing you’re writing for a global audience is incredibly motivating for students.
• Realizing people from other countries are reading what they’ve written increases their interest, excitement and motives them to blog.
• It also provides built-in geography lessons — as most students constantly check for new visitors and enjoy finding out more about the countries where their visitors are from.

There’s numerous different types of visitor tracking widgets you can use, and it isn’t uncommon for teachers and students to use more than one type on their blogs.
Below are the most commonly used ones with instructions on how to install.
Please note:
All visitor tracking widgets require you to add embed code to a text widget
To be able to add the embed do you need to be either using:

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How To Change Avatar Size In Blogger Comments

           How To Change Avatar Size InBloggerComments

This simple trick will help you to modify the avatars size in Blogger comments. For changing the style and size of avatars, we have to add some CSS codes in our Blogger template. So, let's begin:

Step 1.
Go to Dashboard - Template - click on the Edit HTML button - Proceed

...now select Expand Widget Template (I recommend to make a backup first)

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Step 2. Find (CTRL + F) this code in your template:

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How To Change Avatar Size In Blogger Comments

               How To Change Avatar Size InBloggerComments

This simple trick will help you to modify the avatars size in Blogger comments. For changing the style and size of avatars, we have to add some CSS codes in our Blogger template. So, let's begin:

Step 1.
Go to Dashboard - Template - click on the Edit HTML button - Proceed

...now select Expand Widget Template (I recommend to make a backup first)

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Step 2. Find (CTRL + F) this code in your template:

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How to Make the Blogger Posts Have a Calendar for the Date in

How to Make the Blogger PostsHave aCalendar for the Date in

It's quite common to see calendar style dates next to some WordPress posts but for the Blogger platform it isn't always an very easy task to add this. But who said you can't do it? You need to look no further than this blog. In this tutorial, we'll learn how to create a calendar style date for your Blogger posts.

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DEMO

How to create calendar style dates in Blogger

Step 1. Go to Settings > Language and Formatting - Date Header Format and change the date format as you can see in my example below (put day first, then the month and finally the year)
 

Step 2. Then go to Template > Edit HTML

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