Learn How to be a Rockstar WordPress Designer

worpress rockstar designer Learn How to be a Rockstar Wordpress DesignerDon’t know how to design a WordPress Theme?

Its not easy to create a WordPress Template if you don’t know how HTML and other Web Programming Language works

Rockable Press offers you a step by step easy to follow guide on how to create a Worpress Theme the correct and direct way.

Learn to create a Rockable Template the Rockstar Way right now.

for more details visit their page here

Good bye default Kubrick Theme Welcome Twenty 10 Template

Beginning WordPress 3.0, the default Kubrick Theme Design is now replaced by the new customizable Twenty 10 Theme.

kubrick Good bye default Kubrick Theme Welcome Twenty 10 Template

twenty 10 default Good bye default Kubrick Theme Welcome Twenty 10 Template

Features of Twenty 10 Template over Kubrick:

  • You can easily customize the Header Design and can Upload your own header.
  • You can Change the Background color and design with ease.

How to Upgrade or Update WordPress

I assume you already installed WordPress as your Blogging platform and you are ready to update its core.

Upgrading WordPress is very easy. If your Hosting Company Installed SimpleScript software on your your server. Just follow the security notification when you logged-in to your Cpanel account.

simplescript notification How to Upgrade or Update Wordpress

Just click the view all updates and Update the Old WordPress Installation.

simple script worpress upgrade How to Upgrade or Update Wordpress

Another common thing to do when you don’t have a Simplescript Software on your server is by logging in to your WordPress Blog and follow the notification above your dashboard. (example: I’ll be updating my 2.9.2 installation to 3.0)

above your dashboard you will see something just like this.

wordpress update notification How to Upgrade or Update Wordpress

click grade automatically

note: if you have a big files and database be sure to back it up to prevent loss of data.

wordpress upgrade How to Upgrade or Update Wordpress

wait untill the word “WordPress upgraded successfully” shows after the intallation.

wordpress upgrade success How to Upgrade or Update Wordpress

thats it! If you follow it correctly.

Their are some cases that you can’t upgrade wordpress easily. Ill be covering that in my next article. thanks

How to Encrypt your WordPress Footer Links

Most WordPress users online who search for Theme Designs for their Blog/s don’t want to have annoying links within the footer of their chosen Theme or Template. Most template users especially the People who are familiar to HTML Programming usually edit the footer.php and replace or remove the original links placed by the Author of that Template or Theme.

To stop someone from claiming YOUR work as their own, certain measures must be applied. One of the best method is to encrypt the footer links to avoid someone from manipulating your Theme. Encrypting the Footer links have many advantages in favor of the Creator of the Template. It ensures the credit link is intact, thus, increasing the Link Popularity and gain some Backlinks from the Users of the Theme.

Learn the Basics of Encrypting Footer Links

Their are many ways How to protect your Footer Links and remain intact,

One of the easiest way is to use a base64 Decoder and Encoder. This is my personal favorite strategy to get rid out of newbies who try to change our credit links to one of our WordPress Template Design.

For example, the Base64 representation of  “http://wpbulletin.com/” is “aHR0cDovL3dwYnVsbGV0aW4uY29tLw==”.

base64 How to Encrypt your Wordpress Footer Links

More often this method is easy to decode but sufficient enough to annoy someone who does not know programing languages.

You can use these free tools online while its free:

http://www.motobit.com/util/base64-decoder-encoder.asp
http://www.freephpencoder.com/
http://www.byterun.com/free-php-encoder.php

If you are serious to Protect and License your PHP scripts and Website, use IonCube PHP Encoder.

To evaluate their Software for free. Go to
http://www.ioncube.com/encoder_eval_download.php


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