Today,we are writing about a facebook page promoter popup? These popups must be converting really well. There is a free plugin that lets you create a lightbox popup to promote your Facebook page. Facebook Page Promoter Plugin helps you to direct your blog’s traffic to your Facebook fan page by means of a lightbox. If you are looking to expand your facebook community then this plugin is perfect for you. In this tutorial we are going to show you how to promote your facebook page in WordPress with a lightbox popup.

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Because WordPress is a publishing platform, there are options for content visibility that most beginners overlook. Have you ever thought about creating a blog post that you don’t want everyone to read? Maybe just for family members or close friends? Or maybe just very special group of your users? Well, in this post we will show you how you can protect your posts by requiring password, or even user registration.

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How to add a gallery in WordPress with a lightbox effect is one of the hottest question that we have been getting lately through our contact form, so we have decided to cover it. Many beginners are not aware that WordPress has a built-in gallery feature that can be used on any post or page. In this article, we will show you how can add the native gallery in a WordPress post or page. We will also show you how to install a plugin that will allow your users to open the full-size images in a lightbox which will keep them from going to a different page.

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Do you ever wanted to be able to automatically add a search field to WP 3.0+ navigation menus? If yes, just have a look to today’s recipe, you’ll probably love it! Open your functions.php file, and paste the following code. The search field will be displayed once you saved the file.

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Experience your Facebook content in new ways with a desktop client application that lets you personalize how you read your newsfeed, update status, comment, like, browse and upload photos.

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With the recent release of WordPress 3.0, I thought it would be good to show off one on its best features, custom post types. This feature will come into its own especially when using WordPress as a CMS, it allows you to assign a post area for different bits of your site.
In version 3.0 the developers of WordPress introduce the Custom Post Types. I’m not sure whether it’ll be solely built into the API or also displayed as a GUI somewhere in the settings, but it doesn’t require too much coding skills to add a couple via your functions.php or a perhaps a plugin.

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In this tutorial I will tell you how to edit in photo in Lightroom and Photoshop to dramatically alter its appearance and mood. We’ll change a broad daylight scene into a night-time one, lit by a street lamp. I’ll also take the opportunity to describe some non-destructive editing techniques in Photoshop.

Below you can see the ‘before’ and ‘after’:

Day to night conversion: before and after

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One of the easiest ways to navigate and manipulate the loop is to use the function called query_posts.

When you use query_posts, however, you risk the following:

• Potential to interfere with plugins which make use of the Loop.
• Potential to invalidate WordPress conditional tags.
• Having to deal with resetting, rewinding, offsetting…

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