Top 5 WordPress Backup Plugins

1. BackUpWordPress

BackupWordPress is a complete WordPress backup plugin with automatic scheduling support. It allows you to create different schedules for your database and files. The only problem is that the free version does not allow you to store your WordPress backups to a cloud storage service.


2. VaultPress

At WPBeginner, we use VaultPress to backup our site. VaultPress was founded by Matt Mullenweg (WordPress co-founder) and his team at Automattic.
It is a subscription based service with different plans and pricing. VaultPress offers automated real-time cloud backup solution starting at $5 / month (which is good for most websites).

3. BackupBuddy

BackupBuddy is the most popular premium backup plugin for WordPress. It allows you to easily schedule daily, weekly, or monthly backups and store them in Dropbox, Amazon S3, Rackspace Cloud, FTP, Stash (their cloud service), and even email it to yourself.

4. BackWPup

BackWPup is a free plugin that allows you to create complete WordPress backup for free and store it on the cloud (Dropbox, Amazon S3, Rackspace, etc), FTP, email, or on your computer.
It is extremely easy to use and allows you to schedule automatic backups according to your site’s update frequency.

5. WP-DB-Backup

With more than 2 Million downloads, WP-DB-Backup is one of the most popular WordPress backup plugins. The only problem is that it only backups your WordPress database.
This means that you will have to backup your media files manually. If you do not update a site too often or do not upload images, then you can use WP-DB-Backup as your primary WordPress backup plugin.

Wordpress 500 internal server error

In this article we will look at how to troubleshoot an internal server error in your WordPress installation.

Main: Steps to resolve 500 Internal Server Error

Use your FTP app or File Manager to find your .htaccess file. (make sure show all hidden files is enabled)
Rename your .htaccess file to .htaccess.bak.
Login to your WordPress admin area.
From the left menu, click Settings > Permalinks.
Check the permalink settings are as you need.
Click the Save Settings button.

Go to your browser and reload your site to see if the 500 Internal Server error is resolved.

1)Checking for corrupt .htaccess file
The first thing you should do when troubleshooting the internal server error in WordPress is check for a corrupted .htaccess file. You can do so by renaming your main .htaccess file to something like .htaccess_old. To rename your .htaccess file, you will need to login to your site via FTP. Your .htaccess file will be located in the root directory alongside your wp-content, wp-admin, and wp-includes folders.

Once you have renamed the .htaccess file, try loading your site to see if this solved the problem. If it did make sure that you go to Settings > Permalinks and click the save button. This will generate a new .htaccess file for you with proper rewrite rules to ensure that your post pages do not return any 404 errors.

2)Deactivate all plugins

3) Re-uploading core files


If the plugin option didn’t fix the internal server error, then it is worth re-uploading the wp-admin and wp-includes folder from a fresh WordPress install. This will NOT remove any of your information, but it may solve the problem in case any file was corrupted.

Last and finally Ask your hosting provider

How to Setup WordPress Child Theme

Recently, I have come to know about the use of the child theme in WordPress and you will be amazed to know how child theme can be so useful for your website.

"A child theme is a theme that inherits the functionality of another theme, called the parent theme. Child themes allow you to modify, or add to the functionality of that parent theme. A child theme is the best, safest, and easiest way to modify an existing theme, whether you want to make a few tiny changes or extensive changes. Instead of modifying the theme files directly, you can create a child theme and override within" - WordPress Codex.

Creating a Child Theme

Now that you know what a child theme is and when it is used, let’s learn how to create a child theme. To get started with , you need to have some HTML ,CSS skills and PHP basic skills. You also need to have the logins to the theme file from the hosting Cpanel or the FTP. If you have an option to download the theme, you can create a child theme on your localhost.

Activate Child Theme in ModernThemes

1) Go to Appearance => Editor 

2) Click on Activate Now
3)Go to Appearance => Themes to check that the child theme is active
4)Go back to Appearance => Editor to make stylesheet changes or add functions

Let's Start 

Creating a child theme in the localhost demo site we created in the tutorial - installing WordPress on localhost.
Step 1: Create a Child Theme’s Folder.Creating a child theme’s folder is the first step. Login to your website using your FTP client and go to “wp-content/themes/”. Inside the theme folder, you will see folders with the themes installed in your website. Create a folder and give it your preferred name. It is important to give the folder a descriptive name that will help you know that it is the folder for the child theme. 

Step 2: Create Child Theme’s style.css File
The style.css file is important since it work sas a supplement of a kind to your parent theme’s style.css file. To create the style.css file, open a text editor and type or paste the following:
/*
 Theme Name:     Evolve Child Theme
 Theme URI:      http://www.theme4press.com/themes/evolve
 Description:    Evolve Child Theme
 Author:         Theme4Press Themes
 Author URI:     http://www.njengah.com
 Template:       Evolve
 Version:        1.0.0
*/

Step 3: Call the parent theme’s CSS file
It is important for you to call the parent theme’s CSS file without the child theme’s style.css file to prevent WordPress making your child theme’s style.css file the default style file. In the event that WordPress makes your child theme’s style.css file the default style file, the theme would not have any CSS styling. To prevent this from happening; you need to add the following line of code to your child theme style.css file.
@import url("../parenttheme/style.css");
After adding the above line of code, save your style.css file to your child theme’s folder.

Step 4: Activate your Child Theme

The fourth step is to activate the child theme. To activate the child theme; go to “Appearance > Themes” in your WordPress admin area and you will see all the themes in the website. You will note that the parent theme is activated.

Step 5: Using the Child Theme

Now that you have created your child, it is time to make use of your child theme by adding customization on your child theme.Before we can add any customization Evolve child theme is working well.

Step 6: Customizing Child Theme.

You can create a child theme of any parent theme by modifying the above codes. If you want to have a try to Colorway theme, feel free and buy it from the InkThemes market with a decent price.

Top 10 must use plugin's for WordPress website development.

Top Must Have WordPress Plugins For Your Website.

•WordPress SEO by Yoast : WordPress SEO is not just an SEO plugin, it is the complete website optimisation package. This plugin, written by the team at Yoast, helps you to improve your site’s SEO and to write better content. WordPress SEO forces you to choose a focus keyword when you’re writing your articles, and then makes sure you use that focus keyword in all of your SEO optimisation. Apart from adding titles and descriptions to your articles, it also allows you to add open graph meta data, do page analysis, publish xml sitemap, and so much more. It is easy to install and setup and is an essential plugin to ensure you have a fully optimised WordPress site.

•BackupBuddy: Every business that has a website needs to have a way to back up that website on a regular basis. Website backups should be secure and restorable in a short period of time. That it exactly what BackupBuddy does. BackupBuddy allows you to create full or partial backups of your WordPress website including core WordPress, database, and all plugins. It even allows you to schedule regular backups and store them in various locations such as local hosting, Amazon S3, FTP, Dropbox, or BackupBuddy Stash.

•WooCommerce : WooCommerce is a full featured e-commerce solution, that offers product and digital sales, service sales, and more. The code is solid, and it is VERY easy to use, right out of the box. Plus…it’s Free! You get integration with some basic payment providers.  But make no mistake, even the free version of woo commerce and its free extensions can be enough to power your entire store, or nonprofit. We’ve used it to help organizations take donations, sell tickets to basic events, track inventory, ship products, run basic memberships, and more. 

•W3 Total Cache: Cache is a special storage, which is there in every system, whether it is a PC or smartphone or tablet. This storage is used to save local data temporary, just to make its delivery to the system ultra-fast. W3 Total Cache is a free plugin and recommended one from my side. You can install, activate and set it up (the whole process is easy and once it’s running it will severely increase the website speed and performance at almost every user’s end. If any web browser disables storing of cache data, then this phenomena won’t work, which is itself a rare condition.

•Contact form 7: Contact form 7 is easily one of the most popular free form plugin out there, it has had more than 16 million downloads. This plugin manages multiple contact forms, plus you can customise the form and any email content with simple markup. The form also supports AJAX-powered submission, CAPTCHA and Akismet spam filtering.

•Slider Revolution: Slider Revolution is simply the best slider available for WordPress. It allows you to feature Images in layers anywhere on your site, and with as many sliders as you care to show. It’s one of the only sliders that also offers a Full screen version. That’s right, full screen – not just full-width. If you want your entire page to be a video or slide, Slider Revolution can handle it.You can also show video in the slider, which might seem elementary, but it’s not. Most video sliders will allow you to show video, but when you include multiple videos in multiple slides they rarely function well.

•Visual Composer for WordPress : WordPress can be limiting to the average users when it comes to how you want your page layout to look. Even though you can do anything with HTML and CSS, most users do not know these coding languages. That’s where Visual Composer for WordPress can help.Visual Composer transforms the default WordPress page editor into a robust feature-rich editor that allows you to add columns, image galleries, accordions, tour sections, call-to-action buttons, videos, and much more.

•Google XML Sitemaps: This plugin generates an XML sitemap for the website and helps the pages and posts get indexed by the major search engines. Every time a new post is made the plugin notifies the search engines. This is the easiest way to provide web spiders with an easy structure to crawl.

•404 Redirected : From my experience, business owners don’t monitor their broken links nearly as much as they should. Broken pages present a business and SEO problem for your website. On one hand, your potential customers might leave your website immediately when they see a 404 error, and on the other hand, Google will not pass PageRank to your 404 page. 404 Redirected plugin shows all URLs which return 404 errors and allow you to 301 redirect those to actual pages on your website. This will redirect traffic to the appropriate content as well as pass PageRank to the correct pages.

•Simple Membership Plugin : The simple membership plugin lets you protect your posts and pages so only your members (free or paid) can view the protected content.

 

How To Make Attractive Website Using WordPress

Introduction of Wordpress

•These days everyone has a website! Identity and exposure has become the basic imperative for every business irrespective of their size or line of production. Having a website is the easiest way to promote your business and attraction increasing attention from the online visitors. WordPress websites are viewed by over 409 million people each month. These views come from a variety of sources including marketing campaigns, direct URL entry, and a number of other methods for searching online.

•Although WordPress started out as a tool for creating blogs, over the years new features have been added to the software which have seen it become increasingly used for building regular websites. The types of website built in this way could include a business site, a portfolio, or an online store, to name just a few.

Some of the usable tips which should be kept in mind for making a website with wordpress as user friendly and attractive are as follows:

1.Create A Custom Homepage: By using a Wordpress Dashboard (Page builder), you can totally change the first impression of a visitor gets when he/she visits your site. Dashboard makes the process of creating a custom website manageable for WordPress users who aren’t developers. The easy to use interface allows users to build pages on the front-end, so you can see your page on your live site as you’re building it.

2.Use Optimized Images: Images will make or break the appearance of your site. Poor image choice is the most common mistake I encounter in new websites. If you plan to use images, don’t cheap out — it will reflect poorly on your brand. Use Google Images or buy image form different website.

3. Customizable Themes: If you don’t feel like learning how to code to have some creative control over your WordPress site, or hiring a professional developer, one of the best things you can do is choose a theme with design options. But when it comes to allowing you the freedom to customize your theme – no coding required – to stand out from all the other users of said theme, not all themes are created equal. There are a lot of themes that allow for almost 0 customization outside of the customization options built into WordPress.

4. Coloring the impression you make: Do be careful though to make sure that these colours don’t effect the chances of your visitors effectively using your site. Therefore, dark copy on dark tinted backgrounds, a series of clashing bold shades, an explosion of too many colors for the eye to be comfortable with, all hamper performance.

5. Widgets/Sidebar is most important: Another easy way to change the look and feel of your website, is by placing key visual elements in the sidebar. These can be self-designed mini-banners, or simply good looking and useful widget plugins that fit well with the rest of your site’s design. For example a widget plugin that showcases popular posts and shows their featured images. Checkout the WordPress.Org plugin repository – they have tons of great free widget plugins that you can use to change up your website look.

 6.Font Choices: Making great font choices is very important to the design, professionalism and above all else, the legibility of your site. If you want people to read your content make it easy for them. When in doubt, use Helvetica, Arial or Georgia. They are widely recognized as legible fonts online that have stood the test of time. If you’re not a professional designer, and a font looks “boring“, that’s probably the easiest way to recognize it as being a good font.

7. SEO for WordPress: If you want to make your WordPress site even more SEO-friendly, the plugin is a must-have. It’s free, and it’s awesome. You’ll be able to edit your title tags, meta descriptions and more, all from within the page itself no more fussing with WordPress settings.

8.It’s mobile & tablet friendly: The website you build will be responsive, looking great on every mobile device, smartphone and tablet.

9.Small or Big site? Doesn’t matter: From basic blogs to beautiful business sites and online stores, WordPress can handle just about any kind of website. WordPress is used by Facebook, eBay, McAfee, Mozilla, Reuters, CNN, Google Ventures and even NASA.