How to Use Gmail SMTP to Send Email in WordPress

WordPress users have a lot of trouble in getting mails from visitors via the forms they fill up on their site or other such means. This happens because WordPress uses the wp_mail() function which basically follows the standard PHP mail() function. This usually ends up sending the mails on theRead More…

5 Awesome Tips to Reduce Spam on Your WordPress Site

Spammers are evil. They will crowd your site if you don’t keep tabs on them and this can have a huge impact on your viewers. They will be discouraged from visiting your website. So, you need to do everything in your power to keep your website spam free. This articleRead More…

Using WordPress Permalinks without Breaking the Site?

Permalinks are basically link structures created by you to replace the default URLs that appear on the address bar. Why are permalinks important? Now, you would ask what this little link change can do for your website. Well, it can do a lot. This component plays an extremely crucial roleRead More…

Simple Steps to Put WordPress Site in Maintenance Mode

Just like you need to renovate your home after every few years, your website needs to be updated according to the latest trends. It is at these times when your website is under the maintenance mode that you need a maintenance mode page. It lets your visitors know that yourRead More…

2 Simple Ways to Change your WordPress Username

So, are you thinking about changing the username of your WordPress website but don’t know how to go about it? Well it’s a pretty straight forward process. In this article we are going to cover two basic ways in which you can change your WordPress username. Through the WordPress DashboardRead More…

How to Create Custom User Roles for WordPress

WordPress is a very powerful CMS, especially for blogging websites. In our previous tutorial we had covered that the default user roles in every WordPress blog are the Subscriber, Contributor, Administrator, Author and Editor Roles. However, sometimes these roles are not enough. To create custom user roles, WordPress users needRead More…

How to Create User Roles in WordPress Blogs

In this tutorial we are going to cover how to add users and give them their roles in WordPress. WordPress began as a blogging platform. As such, the default user roles present in WordPress are blog centric roles. In order to begin creating users and give them roles, you needRead More…

How to Install WordPress

In the past decade WordPress has witnessed a phenomenal growth in its use on the web. It began as a blogging platform and currently stands as a complete CMS platform. As of January 2015, 23.3% of the top ten million websites currently use WordPress as their CMS. This vouches forRead More…