How to implement your own social media buttons

Posted by Raffael on 12/14/201305/08/2014 Posted in HTML, JavaScript, PHP, Tutorials, Wordpress Tagged Custom Like button, Gravatar, jQuery, JSON, Like-Button, Like-Counter, Share-Button

Nowadays you will hardly find a website without it. What is it what I’m taling about? Did you already guess it? I mean Like buttons, Share buttons, Like counter, avatars, etc. – if you look at today’s network landscape, it’s hard to imagine that there was a time before all that fancy stuff.
And that’s why I want to show you today how to install functionalities like Facebook’s share button, Twitter’s tweet button and counter, as well as Gravatar’s user-image service. In the following tutorial you will learn how to implement these functionalities into your website.
I deliberately say “functionality” because I do not want to show you how to use the finished and standardised components, but how to address the core functionality, so you can afterwards operate quite freely, for example in the design of the […]

Update: WordPress2Doc 1.1.0.0

Posted by Raffael on 11/04/2013 Posted in Downloads, Wordpress Tagged bugfix, Update, Wordpress2Doc

Wordpress2Doc Version 1.1.0.0 Short info: After Habared has kindly told me on GitHub that my “WordPress2Doc” tool has a few problems with UTF-8 characters, I took time and wrote a small fix.
In fact, I had missed the character encoding in the HTML code that is embedded in both, the generated .docx- and .pdf-documents.
The latest, UTF-8 compatible version of WordPress2Doc can be found both in the main article and on GitHub. I would appreciate any feedback!
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How to improve WordPress load speed by Lazy Load plugin

Posted by Raffael on 09/21/2013 Posted in Tutorials, Web Tips, Wordpress Tagged jQuery lazy load, jquery sonar plugin, Lazy Load plugin, Wordpress, Wordpress lazy load, Wordpress performance tips

Lazy Load Image Today I want to give the WordPress bloggers among you a little tip. It’s about the free WordPress plugin Lazy Load, that serves to reduce the loading time of your WordPress blog. But how does it work?
Lazy Load jQuery makes advantage of the Sonar Expansion and loads images only when they come into the viewport. In plain text, images are only loaded when they are in the visible area of your web browser. The more images you have in an article/or on your main page, the more time you can save accordingly with the Lazy Load plugin.
Instead, the visitor must wait until all images are loaded so that he/she can scroll without lags, jerking or other restrictions on your site, visitors can now get going on much faster. Only when he scrolls into an area in […]

WordPress2Doc – How to convert WordPress articles into Word and PDF documents

Posted by Raffael on 08/31/201312/04/2017 Posted in C#.Net, Downloads, Wordpress Tagged how to convert wordpress to pdf, Wordpress article converter, Wordpress converter, Wordpress posts to doc, Wordpress to docx, Wordpress to html, Wordpress to PDF, Wordpress2Doc

WordPress2Doc is a small program I developed, that enables you to convert your WordPress articles into Word (docx) documents. In addition to the Word format (.docx) the PDF format (.pdf) is available as a target format. For the conversion, the program makes use of the WordPress export XML file and can convert the items inside the export file in one or both of the aforementioned formats.
Tip: The download link for WordPress2Doc is at the end of this article! Who needs no further information, can now confidently scroll to the bottom of the article.
How to convert WordPress articles into pdf and docx files
To convert your WordPress articles into .docx or .pdf format, the relevant articles must be exported from WordPress at first. This can be done at WordPress’ backend. Therefore open the administration page of your blog and navigate to the “Tools-> Export” menu in the WordPress backend.

TagKeywordFinder – a free WordPress SEO plugin

Posted by Raffael on 08/14/201309/23/2016 Posted in Downloads, PHP, Wordpress Tagged best Wordpress SEO plugin, download, free, free Wordpress SEO, freeware, Google suggest, gratis, PHP, SEO, Seo plugin, tag SEO, tagging, TagKeywordFinder, tags, Wordpress, Wordpress plugin, Wordpress SEO, Wordpress tagging plugin, wpSuggest

Last while browsing I came across a WordPress plugin called wpSuggest. This links Google’s autocomplete function (the thing called “Google Suggest”, which ensures that you get suggestions while typing your question) with the title field in the WordPress editor. So if you write an article in the WordPress backend and type the title wpSuggest will make suggestions for the perfect title.
I liked the way the Google Suggest feature was used here. However, I found that the combination of Google Suggest and the input field for the keywords/tags would make much more sense. So in short I have developed a small WordPress plugin named “TagKeywordFinder”. This plugin works similar to the above mentioned wpSuggest, with the small difference that it is used when tagging the article. And this is how it looks like:

(If you’re not intrested in the setup process, skip it to 1:00.)
When you begin to assign tags for your […]