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Genesis Theme Framework is one of the most feature-full theme platforms available to run WordPress. Impressed with its features and customizability, we moved LinuXplained to Genesis Lifestyle theme in June 2012. Since moving to Genesis, our traffic has continually increased. Of course, we made other improvements as well but premium … read more
FeedBurner is by the primary mode of RSS feed delivery for websites and blogs. htpcBeginner is no different and our posts are delivered right to your Inbox or Reader through FeedBurner. In this post, let us look at a few FeedBurner tweaks to spruce up your feed delivery and also … read more
Floating share bars are one of the best ways to increase sharing and attract more traffic to your site. In this tutorial, I will show you 5 ways to customize AddThis floating bar to get the most out of it as well as tune it to your site theme. While … read more
Should you buy Facebook likes that fake to improve the social presence of your product or website? Well, I did a quick experiment to find out. Read this post before making such a move. In the today’s world the importance of social media in sell your products / blog and … read more
Thunderbird is a free email application that’s easy to set up and customize – and it’s loaded with great features! It is an open-source, cross-platform email and news client, which means it works well on multiple OSes, including Windows and Linux. In my case, I dual boot Windows 7 and … read more
Thunderbird is a free email application that’s easy to set up and customize – and it’s loaded with great features! It is an open-source, cross-platform email and news client, which means it works well on multiple OSes, including Windows and Linux. In my case, I dual boot Windows 7 and … read more
PHP is a very popular language for dynamic websites such as those using WordPress. Parsing PHP scripts, converting them to opcode, and converting them again to machine code can be quite taxing on the CPU. This in turn affects the site speed and performance. In my previous posts (this and … read more
This post describes how to add post pagination in Genesis Theme Framework without a plugin and style it using CSS. Most bloggers know that splitting posts into pages is one way of increasing pageviews, decreasing bounce rate, and increasing CTR. StudioPress’s Genesis Theme Framework offers some of the professionally designed … read more
Recently, I discussed few steps to improve performance and decrease bandwidth. With Google now using page speed to rank pages in their search results it is all the more important to take care of loose ends that adversely affect your search engine optimization. Pingdom and GTMetrix are two tools that … read more