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Enabling Permalinks on your WordPress Server

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The URLs of the content you publish on your WordPress website are known as permalinks. Permalinks are what people enter into their browser address bar to view one of your pages (they are the “permanent link” to a single page, you see?). They are also what search engines and other websites use to link to your website. Due to this, they are very important.
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Managing WordPress with WP-CLI

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WP-CLI is a command line interface which allows the users to manage their WordPress web sites from the command prompt. Upgrades can be performed, backups can be generated, new posts can be published and most of the regular admin actions can be performed with a set of commands.

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Create a WordPress Post from Node.js

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WordPress uses an XML-RPC interface by default. XML-RPC is a remote procedure call (RPC) protocol which uses XML to encode its calls and HTTP as a transport mechanism. With WordPress XML-RPC support, you can post to your WordPress blog using many popular clients. You could even consider writing your own client application using Node.js. Let’s do a proof of concept.

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Make WordPress Remember A Login Forever

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To keep track of who you are, WordPress uses cookies to store important information needed for it to work. Once you are logged into your WordPress account, information is stored to that little file which lets the system know the exact time when you got there and so it can identify you later on.

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Anatomy of a WordPress Plugin

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To learn the anatomy of a WordPress plugin and how plugin works, we will start looking at a simply plugin, a plugin that comes pre-install with WordPress.  It is the “Hello Dolly” plugin.  In fact this plugin is there to show you an example of how to do a WordPress plugin.

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How to Style Contact Form 7 Forms in WordPress

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Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms in WordPress, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.

The biggest downside is that the out of the box forms you add are very plain looking. Thankfully, Contact Form 7 can be easily styled using CSS in your WordPress theme. In this turorial, we will show you how to style contact form 7 forms in WordPress.

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Play Background Audio on your WordPress website

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Sometimes it is nice to low ambient sound effects in the background of your website, to set a mood or for some other purpose. There are plenty of websites where you can download such files, or you can make your own. It’s best to go for something that seamlessy loops and is not to distracting to the user.

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