Today we are going to look at getting the content of a post using ajax and then display it in a popup box. The popup part is actually the easiest part, thanks to the fantastic Simple Modal plugin for jQuery written by Eric Martin.

Most database plugins for WordPress offer the option to weekly backup your database and even email it to you but if you have a popular site, you might want to prefer a more frequent backup routine. Imagine how many posts and comments Gawker would lose if they only kept weekly backups and suffered problems the 6th day after their last backup.

As blogger you should not only backup your database when you upgrade but you should regularly back your data up. But honestly, who visits regularly the options to backup the database.

WordPress has its own cron to automatically and scheduled run certain themes. Therefore WordPress provides several functions to use the cron.

Simple explanation on this two WordPress built-in functions

When I’m creating a WordPress website, often times I’ll want a certain image, or a certain snippet of text, to appear on a particular page, but not on any others. How do you do that without creating multiple page or post templates? It’s quite simple actually: use conditional statements.

With the dynamic nature of WordPress, creating, using, and maintaining strong passwords is critical. Passwords help keep the good guys in and the bad guys out, enabling you to run a safe, secure WordPress-powered website. In this DiW tutorial, we’re going to show you how to change your WordPress password in virtually any scenario: logged in, locked out, and everything in between.

Turns out Lester is being very good about it and is using the WordPress internal functions next_posts_link and previous_posts_link. This is good because both of these functions have a simple filter that we can hook onto to add a class to those links, and the code below will work in all instances, also when you’re not using Lester’s plugin but just plain old WordPress.

How can you backup and restore your WordPress blog database? If you’ve been blogging long enough, you might have heard the words “Backup Your WordPress Database Regularly!” Well, this is quite true. Don’t take it with a pinch of salt! A healthy backup of your database could one day be THE ONLY means of restoring your blog should something go wrong such as a bad plug-in installation or an attack by blog hackers.

In this article we will share a tutorial that will give you the option to choose a different sidebar to be displayed for each post and page for WordPress. This is an excellent snippet to bookmark for all WordPress theme designer and other users who would like to add this functionality.