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How Update WordPress Manually

If you have set restrictive file permissions on your site you may have to upgrade your WordPress core, theme and plugin files manually. You may have another reason for doing so. Below we include a detailed guide on how to do this. Upgrading WordPress Core Manually First create a full backup of your website. This is very important in case you make a mistake. Download the newest WordPress ZIP file from wordpress.org. Unzip the file into a directory on your local machine or in a separate directory on your website. Deactivate all of the plugins on your WordPress site. Go to your website root directory and delete your ‘wp-includes’ and ‘wp-admin’ directories. You can do this via sFTP or via SSH. Upload (or copy over) the new wp-includes and wp-admin directories...

30% of all sites now run on WordPress

The folks at San Francisco-based Automattic have a good reason to celebrate this Monday: its WordPress content management system (CMS) now powers 30 percent of all sites on the web. That’s according to W3Techs, a service run by Austrian consulting firm Q-Success that surveys the top 10 million sites ranked on Alexa. Its numbers are updated daily, and today it sees WordPress accounting for 60 percent of the CMS market. WordPress has been in the lead for a good while now, with rival systems like Joomla, Drupal, Magento, Shopify, Google’s Blogger, and Squarespace trailing by a huge margin (Joomla takes the #2 spot with 3 percent of sites). Of course, it’s worth noting that 50 percent of all sites are either built from scratch or utilize CMSes presently not monitored by W3Techs. That’s...

Custom Icon on Google map

You can add your own icons for map placemarks if you’d like to use an image that’s not already available. For example, add an icon that represents your store to mark locations on the map. Add a custom icon Make sure you’re signed in. Then open an existing map in My Maps. In the legend on the left, click the layer where you want to add an icon. Make sure there’s at least one placemark on the layer. In the left panel, hover over the placemark and click the color icon . Click More icons. In the field below the icons, enter the web address for your icon. Click Add. Icon links, size, and color Your custom icon must be a live link on the web. You can upload a .jpg, .png, .bmp, or .gif file of any size to...

Show number of items in cart and total

For showing the number of products that added to cart  on any where (probably on top right corner ) please use the following code . <a class="cart-contents" href="<?php echo WC()->cart->get_cart_url(); ?>" title="<?php _e( 'View your shopping cart' ); ?>"><?php echo sprintf (_n( '%d item', '%d items', WC()->cart->cart_contents_count ), WC()->cart->cart_contents_count ); ?> - <?php echo WC()->cart->get_cart_total(); ?></a>

What is SSL and why is it important

What is SSL? SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is a standard technology behind establishing an encrypted connection between a web server (host) and a web browser (client). This connection between the two makes sure that all the data passed between them remain private and intrinsic. SSL is an industry standard and is used by millions of websites to protect their online transactions with their customers. If you have ever visited a website using the https:// in the address bar you were creating a secure connection via SSL. If you have an eshop or sell items via your website, SSL helps in establishing trust with your customers. Understanding how the SSL connection protects your data Using an SSL certificate creates an encrypted connection between the user's web browser and the web server. This means that...