Giving WordPress Its Own Directory Languages: English • Français • 日本語 • Polski • Русский • Português do Brasil • (Add your language) Some people want their WordPress URL to coincide with their website's root (e.g. but they don't want all of the WordPress files cluttering up their root directory. WordPress allows you to install it into a subdirectory, but have your website served from the website root. As of Version 3.5, Multisite users may use all of the functionality listed below. Note to theme/plugin developers: this will not separate your code from WordPress. Caveat: Do this at your own risk. Let's say you've installed wordpress at `example.com`. Method I (Without URL change) 1) After Installing the wordpress in root folder, move EVERYTHING from root folder into subdirectory. 2) Create a `.htaccess` file in root folder, and put this content inside (just change example.com and my_subdir): <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)? That's all :) Method II (With URL change)
WP Gallery Bank - Best Gallery Albums Plugin WordPress Gallery Bank - Best Gallery Albums Plugin Gallery Bank is a WordPress Plugin designed to create elegant and beautiful gallery albums with images, videos using Grid Albums, List Albums, Individual Albums, Masonry Layouts and Thumbnail Layouts, Special Effects & Animation Effects. IMPORTANT: If you think you found a bug in Gallery Bank or have any problem or question concerning Gallery Bank, do not hesitate to contact us at support@tech-banker.com. Gallery Bank has become the Best Plugin in the world for WordPress sites to display images. Live Demos It provides a powerful engine for uploading and managing galleries of images & videos, with the ability to batch upload, add/delete/rearrange/sort images, edit thumbnails, 100+ settings, and even much more. The Gallery Bank WordPress Gallery Plugin is now proudly maintained by Tech Banker since March 2014. Gallery Bank is designed to adapt each portfolio to any situation and can be easily used on mobiles as it is a Responsive Plugin.
10 Promising Real Time Alternatives to Google Analytics Google Analytics is the enterprise-class web analytics solution that gives you rich insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness. No doubt Google Analytics is a fantastic app to tackle your site’s analytics needs, but it doesn’t give some features which most of the people need like inability to see data live, lack of raw conversion data, true time, ability to add notes etc. There are however a couple of other great Analytics options out there creeping up on its market share. Here are the best designed and freshest ones to watch. Chartbeat One of the big let-downs of Google Analytics is that it only allows you to see yesterday’s data. Mint Mint has achieved widespread respect amongst the web community. Clicky Clicky is another Analytics package that offers real time stats. Advertisement Reinvigorate Reinvigorate is very cool analytic, it streams website and blog events to you live, in real-time on to your desktop. Piwik Woopra KISSmetrics GoingUp! Engine Ready Stuffed Tracker
Content Editor plugin for WordPress | MotoPress Drag and drop content editor will save you tons of time working on the website content. It transforms the default WordPress editor into the intuitive and feature-rich composer that allows you to build your page visually just with a few mouse clicks. Buy MotoPress Content EditorTry Content Editor in action MotoPress content editor offers built-in elements to create complex layouts. It enables to design the unique style of the website and customize objects with ease. textimagescustom codebuttonsvideospace No programming knowledge required only a few simple clicks. Intuitive drag and drop functionality makes the structuring of your content really simple. It’s easy and fast to add, move and replace all elements of your page with MotoPress. You don’t need to build any extra code. If your theme supports responsive design, your content will automatically adapt to any screen size and look perfect on all computer devices.
List of Google Analytics Alternatives To begin I’d like to say that Google Analytics is a good web analytics program, but it doesn’t give me some features I need. The main feature I don’t like about Google Analytics is that the stats don’t come in real time or close to it. Also I’ve wanted to have all the stats on my own server. So if you didn’t read my last post I decided to go with Piwik. Now on to the list. AWStats – AWStats is a free powerful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. Stuffed Tracker (Buy to Use) – Although Stuffed Tracker is a Analytics Software you must buy to use. Javascript Clicky – Clicky is a web analyzer that works great with any web site, even Ajax and Flash sites. Flash Mochibot – I decided to end with a tracking software different from the rest. If you would like to add more please comment below are give your feedback. Tags: Analytics, Flash Tracking, Hit Tracking, Tools
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53 Alternatives to Google Analytics Google Analytics is used by 57.3% of all websites and most likely on your site. As of January 3, 2013 Builtwith knows of 17,586,002 sites using Google Analytics. BuiltWith has also broken down the Top 100,000 sites that use Google Analytics into 40 categories with most falling into Business, Shopping, and Technology. Why Use Google Analytics Alternatives? There are many reasons to use Google Analytics like the price, the ease of use, the ability to track your PPC spend, the filters, etc. So why use an alternative to Google Analytics? UPDATE: As was pointed out in the comments I may have left out some explanation around the pricing – Sorry! So what analytics solution do you use and what do you like about it? Featured image courtesy of Elvert Barnes via creative commons on Flickr. When Dave Rohrer is not helping startups in his free time with their SEO and PPC campaigns he can be found working as a Senior SEO Strategist. More Posts - Website Follow Me:
Discover the Best Google Analytics Alternatives for 2013 Google Analytics is a very popular tool for tracking website visitors, but it’s simply not the right solution for everyone. A closer look under the hood reveals that there are a few things GA does not do well at all. Depending on your business model and your needs, an alternative analytics solution might serve you far better and be a lot more useful to your business. Read on to discover the drawbacks of using Google’s own system and learn about the best Google Analytics alternatives. Quick Navigation What’s Wrong With Google Analytics? From a technical standpoint, there is at least one glaring mistake in the way Google Analytics tracks pageviews and visitor actions. In short, GA cannot truly measure how long a visitor stays on your site, unless they perform another action like a new page load. By all means, use GA, it’s infinitely better than not analyzing your traffic at all. How to Spy on Your Website Visitors Here are some of the criteria I looked for, in the different analytics services:
25 Free Google Analytics Alternatives In my last post, I had a little rant about the Google Analytics Opt-out add-on. Obviously, I am a little disappointed in the direction, but I have a general rule that I like to live by, “Don’t just complain about the problem, give me a solution.” There is an inherent difficulty of providing timely content and following this rule in the same post. Basically, the amount of time to research a solution or alternative would make the original content stale. So, I posted the rant. First, let’s get some basics covered. Below is the list of the free web analytics services that I found so far. UPDATE* Some other tools are already being added! Log File Analyzers Log file analyzers are the original analytics tools and summarize activity based on the http web logs. Analog – Their own description says it best: “The most popular logfile analyser in the world. AWStats – This is one of the oldest products available. Deep Log Analyzer – This is a freemium tool that has a solid set of basic reports.
8 Alternatives to Google Analytics | Venveo Ever since Google Analytics launched back in 2005 it has empowered us to track almost every aspect of how our visitors interact on our sites. Google Analytics was not the first organization to offer free site performance tracking but their ability to pair this technology with their popular advertising platform AdWords instantaneously made them the 800 pound gorilla for online analytics. I've attempted to outline a couple alternatives and why you might want to choose them over (or in addition to) to Google Analytics. In Conclusion I think there are some really great players in the analytics industry other than Google Analytics. What they all can do well is measure trends for your website, and if you look at trends over time, you should notice more similarities than differences. What other alternatives to Google Analytics are our there that might be better?
Recommended Blogging Resources I am regularly asked for recommendations on different tools, training, resources and services available to blogging. People particularly want to know what tools I use to run my blogs. As a result I’ve put together a list of recommended blogging resources that I’ve either personally used (in most cases) or which have come highly recommended to me by people I trust. I will add to these lists as I come across new blogging resources that I recommend. Blog Platforms WordPress My recommendation for blogging platforms is pretty clear – WordPress.org. A couple of other platforms exist of course including: WordPress.com – a free hosted blogging platformBlogger – another free hosted option – owned by Google Recommended Reading: Choosing a Blog Platform Hosting There are many hosting services available for bloggers. If you’re just starting out or have a smaller blog I highly recommend you check out BlueHost who have put together a special discount offer for ProBlogger readers. Blog Design/Themes
Blogging Toolbox: 120+ Resources for Bloggers An aspiring blogger can be overwhelmed with the vast amount of resources, tools, and advice for bloggers available on the net. While in no way definitive - there's simply too much going on in this space to cover it all - we did our best to bring you a comprehensive list of blogging resources, which should be equally useful to beginners as well as veteran bloggers. Enjoy. WordPress WordPress Themes ThemeViewer - The number one location to find WordPress themes to make your page cool, which you will most certainly want to do.Templates Now - A smaller collection of WordPress themes, but still worth your while to check out.TemplateMonster - If you want more professional quality themes then this site can be useful. Best WordPress Plugins Akismet - The best blog comment spam prevention plug-in. Wordpress Plugin repositories Movable Type Movable Type Styles Best Movable Type Plugins Movable Type Plugin repositories Blog Hosting Solutions Dedicated & Shared Hosting Services Paid Blog Hosting Services Tips