About Marvie Pons

Marvie is a freelance web designer and developer, who specializes in WordPress themes and have written quite a few WordPress plugins. He frequently writes on topics including web design, search engine optimization, web hosting, and WordPress tutorials. [Read More …]

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Facebook Recommendations Bar WordPress plugin

facebook recommenations bar screenshotThis plugin adds a simple and easy to use Facebook Recommendations Bar functionality with admin options to change the location of Recommendations Bar, language, number of recommendations as well as other useful options.

The Facebook Recommendations Bar will pop up in the bottom right (or left) side of the page and will show a related articles as well as a like button for the current page.

This is a great way to increase the traffic of your site and makes it easier for your readers and fans to promote your articles on Facebook.

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WordPress 3.6 New Features

The target date for WordPress 3.6 launch is coming up and expected to be released by the end of this month. The new version would bring some new exciting and useful features with more secure functionality.

In this article, I’m going to talk you through some of the new cool features of WordPress 3.6.

What’s New in WordPress 3.6?

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Span Class Added To Syntax Highlighter

Wondering why <span class=”IL_AD” id=”IL_AD3″> is being added to the embedded source code within your posts when wrap by a Syntax Highlighter plugin for WordPress? This happens because of infolinks adds their highlight code to the text inside the syntax highlighter and the code inside gets messed up.

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How to remove “You may use These HTML tags and attributes”

This tutorial is going to guide you on how to remove HTML tags and attributes that appears below the comments box in WordPress. The part on those comments forms which reads as:

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

Remove you may use these html tags and attributes

There are two ways of getting rid of it, you can easily remove it by replacing a piece code into the comment.php file or by adding a line of code in your .css file. Here’s how to:

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20 Free Responsive Image Slider WordPress Plugins

If you are using a responsive WordPress theme and want to make your website more visually appealing, then a responsive Image Slider is the best option to adjust with your responsive WordPress theme. There are tons of free responsive  slider plugins available on the web, most of them are easy to install. To help you limit your search for this kind of plugins, I am going to share 20 free responsive slider specifically built for WordPress blogging platform.

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Fix Facebook fb_xd_fragment Problem via .htaccess

Facebook fb_xd_fragment problem has been ongoing for quite a while now. This is a known Facebook bug with the XFBML version of the Like button. It appears that Facebook’s JavaScript SDK code is appending fb_xd_fragment parameter to the request URL, which would result in a blank page.

This is not good, according to SEO experts, as it causes to spread duplicate content across your website which can effect your search traffic and SEO ranking. Besides that, it also creates duplicated pages with ?fb_xd_fragment parameter reports in your analytics platform.

Solution

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