You can create your own theme and upload to your blog site, but for that, you have to be a developer. Don’t worry if you are not, thanks to the flexibility of WordPress. There are a ton of pre-written themes for you to use.
These themes are for personal blogging and have a clean design and structure which is good for ranking factor in major search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo.
There paid versions are even more customizable and SEO friendly. I know you are getting eager to get the list.
So, let’s take a look at the best WP themes for personal blogging.
WordPress themes for personal blogging:
Kallyas KALLYAS is a technologically vast and resourceful yet ambitious and creative WordPress theme. It is expansive and readily responsive — perfect for any kind of website. KALLYAS is a strong, bold toolkit for the creation and development of polished, professional-quality, modern websites with minimal hassle and absolutely no coding skills required. With KALLYAS by your side, dozens upon dozens of sophisticated, professionally and graphically designed page templates and demo websites are at your disposal to get your projects off to a proper start with just a single-click import process.
Writing Minimalist yet powerful, Writing is a WordPress theme that never fails to impress. It is entirely Retina-ready and fully responsive, allowing your readers to access every post from computers, tablets, and smartphones. In addition, this theme is compatible with all major browsers. Writing is SEO-ready, which increases your chance of success by maximizing your site’s exposure.
Matilda Matilda is a wonderful personal blog WordPress theme with a minimal feel, elegance and loads of professionalism. It is the best fit for every lifestyle blogger out there, however, Matilda can also smoothly adapt to other niches. In the Matilda package, you receive a total of 32 HTML files of which eight are neat home variations. That said, go with what is available and have a blog up and running in a breeze. Or improve and customize it with your individual touch. To each their own.
Essence The Essence is a beautiful, highly diverse, tremendously intuitive and totally responsive WordPress blog website theme. It’s a theme built to satisfy the needs of the modern blogger, whether for casual and personal blogs or for professional, corporate and journalistic blogs. The Essence has been outfitted with a series of options, styles, layouts, and widgets that make your website a natural at blogging, with dedicated features and tons of custom post types, incredibly capacity for visual and experiential customization, and much more under the surface.
RandomRandom is a colorful, eclectic, modern and highly responsive WordPress theme that will leave your viewers truly impressed. This theme has been created by a team of dedicated developers and inspired designers as a solution for the modern webmaster that needs a freely structured environment where they can express themselves in an unrestricted fashion to the best of their abilities. To that end, Random includes a powerful assortment of all the latest and greatest web development features, each with its own unique, undeniably creative twist.
This one (Random) is my personal favorite. Just look at it how Eye-catching it is.
So, these were the 5 best WP personal blog theme according to me. Are you aware of some other themes that I missed? please let us know in the comment below.
Welcome to the Tutes Club. If you have a running website that gives you a handsome amount of returns, then I know that your heart comes to your mouth when you see an error on your site.
There are tons of error out there, but the error we are talking about is WordPress internal server error 500. This error does not let you know the cause of the error, which makes it quite difficult for beginners to fix it. This is how it looks like.
But don’t worry we are here to help you out.
Although there is no exact cause known to this error, but we will troubleshoot some of the most common causes of this error. So let’s do it.
Troubleshooting the most common causes of this error.
Broken plugin:
Maybe, you have activated a plugin not compatible with PHP and/or WordPress version. you have to identify the troubling plugin/plugins. To fix it:
Deactivate all the plugins from the WP dashboard at once.
Now reload your site. If the error is fixed, then it was caused due to one of the plugin.
Start activating plugins again one by one, and notice at which plugin the error returns.
File an FIR against that plugin. (just kidding)
Broken theme:
The activated theme can be the troublemaker. The theme might be outdated or its back end code might have been changed. To fix it:
Login to Cpanel or FTP account.
Open the “theme” folder.
Rename the folder containing all files associated with the activated theme.
Current theme will be deactivated, automatically activating the default theme.
Congo if the error is fixed. If not then nothing is wrong with the theme. Move on to the next step.
CORRUPTED .htaccess FILE:
.htaccess file is the file that is configured at the directory level. A corrupted .htaccess file is also one of the causes of 500 internal server error.
To fix it:
Locate this file in the directory containing wp-content, wp-admin, and wp-includes folders.
Rename it as .htaccess_xyz, now reload your site.
If problem is solved, then generate new .htaccess file to prevent 404 error.
Go to settings, select permalinks and save changes.
Still getting the error. So read on.
Exhausted PHP Memory Limits:
If WordPress didn’t get the required memory, it may return internal server error 500. To fix it: Simply increase the PHP memory.
Access the wp-config.php file via FTP or Cpanel.
In that file add the line of code in point 3.
define(‘WP_memory_Limit’,’64M’);
save changes.
May the error has been fixed by now. If not then give it a last try.
Corrupted Core Files:
If one of the core files of the WordPress is corrupted. Maybe due to a syntax error while adding a code snippet. To fix it:
You need to re-upload a fresh version of wp-admin and wp-includes folders from a new WordPress installation.
Hurray! you made it.
What? Not Yet. OK…….
Now there is only one way left. Get in touch with your service provider they will fix it for you. Or you can let your developer (if you have one) look into the matter.
I know that you want your sites to rank higher in search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo. And the best way to do it is SEO, but as every good thing takes time, so does SEO.
It may take time, but once it starts to yield results you would just skyrocket from nowhere to the top of the search engines.
As a human being, we love things that automate our life and make it easier in any way. That’s why we all are in love with WP plugins. No matter what our need is? First, we look if a plugin is available for it. And in most of the cases, we find it.
So today I am going to present you with a list of Best SEO plugins for WordPress.
Best SEO plugins for WordPress:
WordPress Yoast SEO – 2000000 installs. This goes without saying that it is one of the best SEO plugins available out there. It has gained its popularity because of its features and simplicity to use.
Key Features of WordPress SEO By Yoast:
Breadcrumbs: Allows you to create simple navigation for users and spiders. Great for internal linking.
Meta and Title Tag Optimization: Lets you determine what pages will be shown in the search results.
Multi-Site Compatibility: XML Sitemaps work in all setups. Includes the option to copy settings from blog to blog.
Website SEO Analysis: Checks even the smallest items length of content, meta description existence, and focused keyword usage. Simple green light, red light lets you know where you stand.
Snippet Preview:Lets you to observe how your page will look in search results.
Social Integration: Includes SEO Friendly Facebook Open Graph to link SEO and social media together.
Great for blogging with a simple green and red light interface.
All in One SEO Pack – 2500000 installs. Best for both beginners and developers.
Features include:
Bad Bot Blocker: Prevents harmful bots from decreasing website speeds.
File Editor: Manually edit robots.txt and .htaccess.
Import/Export: Imports and exports your settings to share with other sites.
Robots.txt: Allows more control over how search spiders navigate your site.
Social Media Integration:Adds Open Graph to your site to deliver closer integration between your website or blog and social channels like Facebook and Twitter.
Video Sitemap (paid version only): Lets you create and manage a Video XML Sitemap and submit it Google and other search engines.
Premium SEO Pack – 1000000 installs. It is a paid plugin and designed to work best with other plugins like Woocommerece and WordPress Multisite. It includes both on-page and off-page optimization.
Key Features:
Facebook Planner: You can post your content on Facebook with the help of this feature.
Monitor 404: Monitors the URLs that are referring your visitors to 404 pages.
Page Speed Insights: Monitors the page speed of each of your posts or pages on a desktop or mobile devices.
SEO Friendly Images: Automatically refreshes all images with relevant ALT tags and Title Attributes.
Backlink Builder:With this feature, you can find similar websites to build links to your website.
W3C Validator: It empowers you to check the schema markup of your posts, pages, and custom taxonomies.
On-Page SEO: Quickly update pages from the post-preview top bar or admin top bar.
Pattern SEO: Set patterns for each post type and custom post types.
Social Optimization: Open Graph and Twitter Card support.
SEOPressor – 700000 installs. Unlike other plugins, this one always remains updated with Google’s algorithm. With the latest update of Rank Brain.
Key Features:
Automatic Smart Internet Linking: Add internal links automatically to keep leads and reduce bounce rate.
Dynamic Crawler Control: Complete command over how spiders travel through your site.
XML Sitemap generator: Helps make your site SEO Friendly.
Keyword SEO Score Checker: Monitors the optimized rate of your primary words, up to 3.
LSI keywords: Calculates your site’s LSI usage with a proprietary formula.Suggests ways to improve your LSI keyword use to rank for more words.
Readability Score: Did you know that the readability of your website copy may be a ranking factor?
Over Optimization Check: Over-stuffing words is now something that will bring red flags from Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.Monitors your keyword use and lets you know if overuse becomes a problem
SEO Squirrly – 2100000 installs. Specially designed for non-experts. Write content that is reader-friendly and is effective at ranking your site.
Key features:
Green Light Means “Good Job!”: Display turns green when you implement an item correctly.
Keyword Headline Suggestions: Give suggestions for headlines based on your primary keywords.
Content Strategy Tracking: Tracks all areas content strategies.
No Automatic Overwrite: Your current SEO settings stay intact during setup.
Social SEO AI:Updated artificial intelligence aids you in developing high-quality content.
Weekly Monitoring: Oversees your progress on a weekly basis.
This was all about the best SEO plugins If you are aware of some other plugins that you think this list should have then please comment below.
I will see you in the next post with an awesome topic to talk about.
So, admit it. We put really strong passwords and then we forget them.
And you end up being locked out of your own website.
So here is how you can reset it quickly.
Go to your hosting control panel and then go to phpMyAdmin if available.
Look into the database which is being used for your wordpress installation and click on Users table
Inside users table, find the row responsible for your admin account. (check the user_nicename column for username match)
and Press edit.
On the editing screen, put your new password again the column password and Choose MD5 in left column FUNCTION
Now scroll down and save this password.
And that’s it. Go to your domain / wp-admin path and login with the new password you just saved.
What to do if you dont have phpMyAdmin?
You gotta have some kind of access to MySQL, so connect to it using the credentials inside wp-config.php file
Use the following command after replacing your details:
UPDATE `wppl_users` SET `user_pass` = 'e0a8aa81eb1762d529783cf587f6f422' WHERE `wppl_users`.`user_nicename` = 'admin';
If you remember the email address only, use:
UPDATE `wppl_users` SET `user_pass` = 'e0a8aa81eb1762d529783cf587f6f422' WHERE `wppl_users`.`user_email` = '[email protected]';
The above command will set your password to abcd@1234. After this command you can login to wordpress admin panel and then reset your password to anything you want. Or use md5.cz to generate md5 for any password string and replace it with e0a8aa81eb1762d529783cf587f6f422
Do NOT forget to replace “wppl_” with your table prefix (stored in wp-config.php file)
Limit the number of login attempts that possible both through the normal login as well as using the auth cookies.
WordPress by default allows unlimited login attempts either through the login page or by sending special cookies. This allows passwords (or hashes) to be cracked via brute-force relatively easily.
Limit Login Attempts Reloaded blocks an Internet address from making further attempts after a specified limit on retries has been reached, making a brute-force attack difficult or impossible.
Features:
Limit the number of retry attempts when logging in (per each IP). This is fully customizable.
Limit the number of attempts to log in using authorization cookies in the same way.
Informs the user about the remaining retries or lockout time on the login page.
Optional logging and optional email notification.
Handles server behind the reverse proxy.
It is possible to whitelist/blacklist IPs and Usernames.
Sucuri Website Firewall compatibility.
XMLRPC gateway protection.
Woocommerce login page protection.
Multi-site compatibility with extra MU settings.
GDPR compliant. With this feature turned on, all logged IPs get obfuscated (md5-hashed).
Wordfence includes an endpoint firewall and malware scanner that were built from the ground up to protect WordPress. Our Threat Defense Feed arms Wordfence with the newest firewall rules, malware signatures and malicious IP addresses it needs to keep your website safe. Rounded out by a suite of additional features, Wordfence is the most comprehensive WordPress security solution available.
WORDPRESS FIREWALL
Web Application Firewall identifies and blocks malicious traffic. Built and maintained by a large team focused 100% on WordPress security.
[Premium] Real-time firewall rule and malware signature updates via the Threat Defense Feed (free version is delayed by 30 days).
[Premium] Real-time IP Blacklist blocks all requests from the most malicious IPs, protecting your site while reducing load.
Protects your site at the endpoint, enabling deep integration with WordPress. Unlike cloud alternatives does not break encryption, cannot be bypassed and cannot leak data.
Integrated malware scanner blocks requests that include malicious code or content.
Protection from brute force attacks by limiting login attempts, enforcing strong passwords and other login security measures.
WORDPRESS SECURITY SCANNER
Malware scanner checks core files, themes and plugins for malware, bad URLs, backdoors, SEO spam, malicious redirects and code injections.
[Premium] Real-time malware signature updates via the Threat Defense Feed (free version is delayed by 30 days).
Compares your core files, themes and plugins with what is in the WordPress.org repository, checking their integrity and reporting any changes to you.
Repair files that have changed by overwriting them with a pristine, original version. Delete any files that don’t belong easily within the Wordfence interface.
Checks your site for known security vulnerabilities and alerts you to any issues. Also alerts you to potential security issues when a plugin has been closed or abandoned.
Checks your content safety by scanning file contents, posts and comments for dangerous URLs and suspicious content.
[Premium] Checks to see if your site or IP have been blacklisted for malicious activity, generating spam or other security issue.
SECURITY TOOLS
With Live Traffic, monitor visits and hack attempts not shown in other analytics packages in real time; including origin, their IP address, the time of day and time spent on your site.
[Premium] Stop brute force attacks permanently by using two factor authentication, one of the most secure forms of remote system authentication available.
Block attackers by IP or build advanced rules based on IP Range, Hostname, User Agent and Referrer.
W3 Total Cache improves the SEO and user experience of your site by increasing website performance, reducing download times via features like content delivery network (CDN) integration.
The only web host agnostic WordPress Performance Optimization (WPO) framework recommended by countless web developers and web hosts. Trusted by numerous companies like: AT&T, stevesouders.com, mattcutts.com, mashable.com, smashingmagazine.com, makeuseof.com, kiss925.com, pearsonified.com, lockergnome.com, johnchow.com, ilovetypography.com, webdesignerdepot.com, css-tricks.com and tens of thousands of others.
An inside look:
BENEFITS
Improvements in search engine result page rankings, especially for mobile-friendly websites and sites that use SSL
At least 10x improvement in overall site performance (Grade A in WebPagetest or significant Google Page Speed improvements) when fully configured
Need some help with your search engine optimization? Need an SEO plugin that helps you reach for the stars? Yoast SEO is the original WordPress SEO plugin since 2008. It is the favorite tool of millions of users, ranging from the bakery around the corner to some of the most popular sites on the planet. With Yoast SEO, you get a solid toolset that helps you aim for that number one spot in the search results. Yoast: SEO for everyone.
Yoast SEO does everything in its power to please both visitors and search engine spiders. How? Below you’ll find a small sampling of the powers of Yoast SEO:
TAKING CARE OF YOUR WORDPRESS SEO
The most advanced XML Sitemaps functionality at the push of a button.
Full control over site breadcrumbs: add a piece of code and you’re good to go.
Set canonical URLs to avoid duplicate content. Never have to worry about Google penalties again.
Title and meta description templating for better branding and consistent snippets in the search results.
WRITE KILLER CONTENT WITH YOAST SEO
Content & SEO analysis: Invaluable tools to write SEO-friendly texts.
The snippet preview shows you how your post or page will look in the search results – even on mobile. Yoast SEO Premium even has social media previews!
[Premium] The Insights tool shows you what your text focuses on so you can keep your article in line with your keywords.
[Premium] Multiple focus keywords: Optimize your article for synonyms and related keywords.
[Premium] Automatic internal linking suggestions: write your article and get automatic suggested posts to link to.
KEEP YOUR SITE IN PERFECT SHAPE
Yoast SEO tunes the engine of your site so you can work on creating great content.
Our cornerstone content and internal linking features help you optimize your site structure in a breeze.
Integrates with Google Search Console: See how your site performs in the search engines and fix crawl errors.
Manage SEO roles: Give your colleagues access to specific sections of the Yoast SEO plugin.
Use this plugin to greatly improve SEO to create special XML sitemaps which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your site.
With such a sitemap, it’s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs. Additionally it notifies all major search engines every time you create a post about the new content.
We believe that you shouldn’t have to hire a developer to add Google Analytics to your website. That’s why we built MonsterInsights, a complete Google Analytics for WordPress plugin that’s EASY and POWERFUL.
MonsterInsights allow you to connect your WordPress website with Google Analytics, so you can see how visitors find and use your website, so you can keep them coming back. Simply put, we show you the stats that matter.
With almost 15 million downloads, MonsterInsights is the most popular Google Analytics plugin for WordPress.
At MonsterInsights, user experience is our #1 priority. That’s why we make it extremely easy for you to connect and view your Google Analytics reports from inside your WordPress dashboard. Our tracking settings and workflows make MonsterInsights the most beginner friendly google analytics plugin in the market.
wp-config.php file contains all information about your database connection and some salts which are used for password generation index.php handles all the requests on your wordpress blog wp-content/themes contains all the themes installed in your blog wp-content/plugins contains all the plugins installed in your blog yourblog.com/wp-login.php or yourblog.com/wp-admin/ can be used for logging into wordpress backend wp-content/uploads contains all your file uploads including all the images in media. They are usually categorized in folders like 2018/month_number (08 09 etc) users table is used for storing all your user details like username, first name, last name, email and password
other details about users are generally stored in usermeta table options table is used for storing all the blog settings. generally first and second row in this table contain the url of your wordpress blog.
When you will log into the administration area of your blog, you’ll see the WordPress Dashboard which will display the overview of the whole website. You can customize your needs by using some quick links such as writing quick draft, replying to latest comment, etc.
Dashboard Menu
The WordPress Dashboard provides a navigation menu that contains some menu options such as posts, media library, pages, comments, appearance options, plugins, users, tools and settings on the left side.
Welcome Section
It includes the “Customize Your Site” button which allows customizing your WordPress theme. The center column provides some of the useful links such as creating a blog post, creating a page and view the front end of your website.
Quick Draft
The Quick Draft is a mini post editor which allows writing, saving and publishing a post from the admin dashboard. It includes the title for the draft, some notes about the draft and save it as a Draft.
WordPress News
The WordPress News widget displays the latest news such as latest software version, updates, alerts, news regarding the software etc. from the official WordPress blog.
Activity
The Activity widget includes latest comments on your blog, recent posts and recently published posts. It allows you to approve, disapprove, reply, edit, or delete a comment. It also allows you to move a comment to spam.
At a Glance
This section gives an overview of your blog’s posts, number of published posts and pages, and number of comments. When you click on these links, you will be taken to the respective screen. It displays the current version of running WordPress along with the currently running theme on the site.
Step 2: Open the wp_usermeta or xxx_usermeta table in the database as highlighted. (wp_ is just prefix, your table prefix may be different)
wordpress tables in database
Step 3: In wp_usermeta table, you can find wp_capabilities under meta_key column.
User Roles in usermeta table
Step 4: The roles are saved in form of serialized PHP array. Change the user role you want to assign to the current user by changing the meta_value as:
KALLYAS is a technologically vast and resourceful yet ambitious and creative WordPress theme. It is expansive and readily responsive — perfect for any kind of website. KALLYAS is a strong, bold toolkit for the creation and development of polished, professional-quality, modern websites with minimal hassle and absolutely no coding skills required. With KALLYAS by your side, dozens upon dozens of sophisticated, professionally and graphically designed page templates and demo websites are at your disposal to get your projects off to a proper start with just a single-click import process.
Minimalist yet powerful, Writing is a WordPress theme that never fails to impress. It is entirely Retina-ready and fully responsive, allowing your readers to access every post from computers, tablets, and smartphones. In addition, this theme is compatible with all major browsers. Writing is SEO-ready, which increases your chance of success by maximizing your site’s exposure.
Matilda is a wonderful personal blog WordPress theme with a minimal feel, elegance and loads of professionalism. It is the best fit for every lifestyle blogger out there, however, Matilda can also smoothly adapt to other niches. In the Matilda package, you receive a total of 32 HTML files of which eight are neat home variations. That said, go with what is available and have a blog up and running in a breeze. Or improve and customize it with your individual touch. To each their own.
The Essence is a beautiful, highly diverse, tremendously intuitive and totally responsive WordPress blog website theme. It’s a theme built to satisfy the needs of the modern blogger, whether for casual and personal blogs or for professional, corporate and journalistic blogs. The Essence has been outfitted with a series of options, styles, layouts, and widgets that make your website a natural at blogging, with dedicated features and tons of custom post types, incredibly capacity for visual and experiential customization, and much more under the surface.
Random is a colorful, eclectic, modern and highly responsive WordPress theme that will leave your viewers truly impressed. This theme has been created by a team of dedicated developers and inspired designers as a solution for the modern webmaster that needs a freely structured environment where they can express themselves in an unrestricted fashion to the best of their abilities. To that end, Random includes a powerful assortment of all the latest and greatest web development features, each with its own unique, undeniably creative twist.
(just kidding)
