When running a web store and using PayPal as the payment processor, you can easily set it up so that PayPal will add the sales tax to the final amount (and optionally to the shipping amount as well) during checkout. In a standard (perhaps traditional) PayPal transaction, the buyer will choose … [Read more...] about How to Setup Regional Sales Tax in Your PayPal Account
How to Create a Paypal Page Style and Use it With a PayPal Button
In this article I am going to walk through the process of creating a custom checkout flow for your PayPal customers. I'll explain how to use it with your PayPal buttons and then at the end I will show you how to add your new custom style for use in WP eStore. The following screenshot is an … [Read more...] about How to Create a Paypal Page Style and Use it With a PayPal Button
How to Change the URL of a WordPress Site
Sometimes the URL or domain for a WordPress site is no longer appropriate. This could be for several reasons. Perhaps everything was setup using a different domain (like localhost) for testing purposes. Maybe, it was installed in a folder and now needs to shine at the root of the site. Maybe the … [Read more...] about How to Change the URL of a WordPress Site
How to Take a DataBase Backup Using the All in One WP Security Plugin
Short of a config file or two, and a couple data folders, the WordPress database contains pretty much all of the settings and content for a WordPress web site. Everything from user data, categories, taxonomies, comments, settings, posts and more are stored in the database. It is being read from … [Read more...] about How to Take a DataBase Backup Using the All in One WP Security Plugin
All In One WP Security Plugin – Using the ‘Cookie Based Brute Force Login Attack’ Prevention Feature
The All In One WP Security & Firewall plugin by Tips and Tricks HQ is much more than just a protection tool for the all important htaccess and wp-config files. Among other things, there are also some basic, intermediate and advanced firewall protection strategies that can be applied to the … [Read more...] about All In One WP Security Plugin – Using the ‘Cookie Based Brute Force Login Attack’ Prevention Feature
How to Completely Delete a WordPress Blog
When clients ask me how to delete their WordPress blog, after a couple minutes of conversation I learn that, in most cases, they just want to take it off the web temporarily. To do that is very simple. I'll explain how below but if you truly want to delete the blog and everything associated with it, … [Read more...] about How to Completely Delete a WordPress Blog
Adding an Author Image and Bio Box in WordPress, and Linking to a Google+ Profile
Attaching a bio box and an image to blog posts in WordPress can help readers identify, and perhaps gain a level of trust with the writer. The bio box can serve many other purposes as well. In standard article marketing and even guest blog posting, the author/bio box can help with SEO when links are … [Read more...] about Adding an Author Image and Bio Box in WordPress, and Linking to a Google+ Profile
How to Setup PayPal Profile Based Shipping
If you are selling via PayPal then you can setup shipping charge rules in your PayPal profile. In this tutorial I will show you how to setup PayPal profile based shipping. The process is completely different depending on the country that you are selling from. As you might imagine, PayPal sellers … [Read more...] about How to Setup PayPal Profile Based Shipping
How to Install A WordPress Multi-Site Network [Video Tutorial]
Ever since version 3 of WordPress was launched, users had the ability to create a network of WP sites or blogs, allowing us to own a site similar to WordPress.com. Using what's called the 'multisite' feature we could have many sites running, only having just one installation of the software … [Read more...] about How to Install A WordPress Multi-Site Network [Video Tutorial]
How to Move Your WordPress Blog to a New Host
There is more than one way to skin a cat, and the same is true of moving a WordPress blog from one server to another. The process can also vary when other factors are in play, like if a new domain name is being used, as one major example. It also depends a lot on the server that the blog is … [Read more...] about How to Move Your WordPress Blog to a New Host