Good news , you don’t need any wordpress twitter plugin for now, we will teach you how to create this plugin yourself !

Twitter button allows to your visitors to tweet every single post. That’s cool enough right ? There are some free widgets available over the net. Tweetmeme.com button for example, but when you are using tweetmeme button , you are automatically retweet tweetmeme.com I don’t want to retweet tweetmeme and probably you also don’t want to retweet them. So let’s create our twitter button from scratch.

First we need button image actually. You can use our happy bird : just save it on your desktop.

Ok, let’s do it :

• Upload this image to your server root
• Login to wp-admin, click appearance, click editor, on right menu find single.php file, click on it
• Inside of Single.php find html code one of the following : <div class=”entry”> or <div id=”entry”> after this tag insert code <?$title=get_the_title();?><div style=”float:left;margin-right:.5em;margin-bottom:.5em;”>  <a title=”ReTweet this” href=”http://twitter.com/home?status=<?=urlencode($title)?>+<?php the_permalink();?>”><img border=”0″ src=”<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/twitter.gif”></a>  </div>
• Save single.php
• If you use cacher , clear the cache

Now when everyone visits your blog, he could tweet any post.

Good luck coding and exploring your wordpress blog !

We included archived .zip file in this tutorial , the archive contains wp-login.php file created for default wordpress theme – kubrick theme. You can download this file here

Make sure you backupped your original “wp-login.php” file on your computer or your server.  Change your default wp-login.php with attached one.

You can see the example here,  it works in login and register cases.

Just download the file and compare with original wp-login.php, sorry we didn’t created full documentation or tutorial for this, because we forgot the process of changing it’s design.

If you need any help, just post comments and we will help you.

Guru !

Please take a look at our example, of what are we going to create : Here

Let’s start coding :

First create category “videos” and post at least one video from youtube or any other flash video.

Now we will need “video” category id before we will start PHP coding of our sidebar, login to your wp-admin, click on posts, categories , you will see categories list, click on created video category.

In your browser address field you will see something like that : http://penguinationproject.com/preview/wp-admin/categories.php?action=edit&cat_ID=3

Category id number  is 3 (cat_ID=3).

Now when we know our category id , let’s start coding.

Click on appearance in your left admin menu, click edit , you will see files list on right menu. Click on sidebar.php

Find html code  <div id=”sidebar” role=”complementary”>

After this code and before <ul> tag starts insert PHP code below , we commented inside of code where you should add your category id number.

<?php if ( have_posts() ) : ?>

// take a look at line below, &cat=3 , change 3 to your category id.

<?php $my_query = new WP_Query('showposts=1&cat=3');

while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
  $do_not_duplicate = $post->ID;?>

<?php
$id =$post->ID;
$the_content =
$wpdb->get_var("SELECT post_content FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE ID = $id ");
$pattern = '!<embed.*?src="(.*?)"!';

preg_match_all($pattern, $the_content, $matches);
$obj_src = $matches['1'][0];
?>

<?php if($obj_src != '') 

{ 

echo '<b>Latest Video</b><br><br><object width="160" height="120">
<param name="movie" value="'.$obj_src.'"></param>
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param>
<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param>
<embed src="'.$obj_src.'" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="160" height="120"></embed>
</object><br><br>'; 

}

?>
 <?php endwhile; ?>

<?php endif; ?>

Now save the file , go to your wordpress blog’s  homepage , You will see most recent video on your blogs sidebar .

From now once you are adding video in “video” category , it will automatically appear on your sidebar.

We will continue hacking default wordpress theme soon. And we wish you all the best ! Please leve comments.

Good luck.

As a default kubrick theme don’t shows sidebar when you are browsing into single post or attachement.

It could be fixed in a 2 minutes of our time. We also created preview for this tutorial : http://penguinationproject.com/preview/

You can click on any post, sidebar will appear on single post.

So, let’s start :

login to wp-admin -> appearance -> editor.

You will need to edit two files in same way single.php and image.php

Both files are edited in the same way,  find html code :

<div id="content" class="widecolumn" role="main">

Change it to 

<div id="content" class="narrowcolumn" role="main">

Scroll to the bottom of code and find code :

<?php get_footer(); ?>

add these line


<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

here is a simple and fast tutorial how to add youtube video downloader tool to your website or blog. This tool allows your visitors downloading youtube videos from your website, take a look at our right sidebar for example.

If your blog powered by wordpress, go to your wp-admin on the left wp-admin menu click on appearance -> editor.

In editor right menu click on Sidebar ( sidebar.php ) ,  you will see something like this :  <div id=”sidebar”> …..

after <div id=”sidebar”> tag insert code below

<iframe height=”150″ width=”300″ style=”border:1px solid #c5c5c5″ src=”http://youtubevideocollector.com/dl.php”></iframe>

Or choose another width and height here

You can manually modify iframe code , to fit your sidebar width and height just change width and height in iframe html code .

Best regards ! And greetings from pengland !

Hi there, you are probably very cool blogger with very popular blog ? How many visitors your wordpress blog reaches daily ? If there are 3-4 visitors per day, you are not cool blogger at all   This tutorial for blogs with at least 100 daily visitors from google and other resources.

So, what is it all about, how to speed up wordpress blog ?

I woke up one great North pole morning, turned up my penguin  laptop and opened penguination project website. Hm… it wasn’t opening,  I was waiting five or ten minutes until my wordpress blog opend the home page !!! Crap ! What’s wrong ? I’ve opened google and googled “wordpress blog slow”, yes it is ! Actually wordpress blog software is a very comprehencive application that loads slow natively when your blog reaches big amounts of traffic. Now everything is cool, I didn’t touch wordpress code myself and decided to figure out how to speed up my blog with existing plugins and methods.

There are some basic tips how to speed up your wordpress blog :

1. Never use godaddy Linux hosting, if you are using godaddy linux hosting , godaddy slow itself and it slows everything around. It is a good time to migrate your blog to some serious hosting company like hostgator hosting. I think their basic hosting plan is enough, it’s cheap and your website load times will be sky high !

2. Download and install WP Super cache plugin . This plugin enables pages storing in hosting memory and caching with explorer. And if your blog receives big amounts of traffic, your visitor will not see any sufficial changes in load times. This plugin is a genious one, and probably was made by genious penguin.

3. Images – Use light weight images in your posts, you can decrease the quality of high resolutional images by 60% with adobe photoshop or other software.

4. Use light weight wordpress templates with less graphics as much as possible.

We hope we helped you to speed up your wordpress blog, now i’s your turn .. leave comments and suggestions.

Good luck !

We will teach you today how to SEO optimize your wordpress blog for better google and other search engines ranking.

If you created your wordpress blog already, first step you should do is  : login to your wordpress admin panel , in left menu click settings, permalinks . In common structure select custom structure and type /%postname%  .  It will make your permalinks human readible, this step is also cool for google and other search engines that regularly visit your website.

Ater that you should install two SEO wordpress plugins :  All in one SEO plugin and  xml-sitemap plugin with your wordpress blog.

Once both plugins installed, post about 15 – 40 quality uniqye ( not copied from another websites ) content. Login to your wordpress admin panel , settings , click on xml-sitemap plugin , create sitemap. From now sitemap will be automatically updated once you create every single wordpress post.

Now you can submit your blog with google. Go to google webmaster tools and submit your site, they will ask you for veryfication. The best method to verify your site is by adding meta tag to your wordpress blog header, in webmaster tools click verify, you will see verification methods, choose “verify by meta tag” and continue, copy provided html code and go back to your website. Login to your wordpress admin panel , click on apperance -> editor. On right panel ( titled as theme files )  click on header.php file. Find lines started with <title  , after </title> tag paste google provided html code, save and exit.

Submit sitemap.xml file. Go back to your google webmaster tools account and click on your website domain , find “sitemaps” in menu , click on it , in the field “submit sitemap” type sitemap.xml  ,  click on submit sitemap button.

Now you are done , continue posting quality content in your blog regularly and you will get lots of visitors, coming from google search.

If you have any suggestions, post it in comments.

Good Luck.