VaultPress Gets One-Click WordPress Database Restore

Vaultpress finally got the much desired one-click database restore feature for WordPress blogs. Vaultpress is a popular service by Automattic, makers of WordPress, which provides streamlined wordpress database backup, security and support.

Read our VaultPress review. We have been using Vaultpress for many months now as it quietly syncs our site database, themes, uploaded images and plugins in the background in real time providing a ready updated complete backup when needed.

VaultPress WordPress Database Restore

Previously you needed to download the files and restore them yourself, but the new feature of 1-click database restore makes it worth the money.

There are many WordPress backup services, but we chose Vaultpress, and the $15 per month spent on this service is worth the money should the database just crash one day. All plans include Realtime Backups, Downloadable Archives for Restoring, Vitality Statistics, and the Activity Log. Our Basic plan provides access to disaster recovery and support services also. More expensive plans also include  site migration assistance, automated security scanning, security consulting and performance auditing.

See the video how database recovery works

Previously we used to keep daily database backups, but now we add Vaultpress to the daily cpanel backup and full VPS backups by our amazing webhosting service Knownhost - it all helps to secure backup copies of the whole site for easy restoration (Remember when our site was hacked!). I am sure many more people will find Vaultpress useful now.

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Best Facebook Games List 2011

Facebook released the list of top Facebook games 2011 and the best Facebook game was … not Zynga’s Farmville or Cityville,  but Gardens of Time by Playdom! We are so accustomed to playing Zynga Facebook social games that we fail to look beyond at some best Facebook games which the list brings out.

Best Facebook Games

Here is the list of  Most popular Facebook games in 2011

1. Gardens of Time (By Playdom)


2. The Sims Social (By EA)


3. Cityville  (By Zynga)


4. DoubleDown Casino (by DoubleDown Interactive)


5. Indiana Jones Adventure World  (By Zynga)


6. Words With Friends (By Zynga)


7. Bingo Blitz (By Buffalo Studios)


8. Empires & Allies (By Zynga)


9. Slotomania-Slot Machines (By Playtika)


10. Diamond Dash (By wooga)

So are these the Facebook games with the most players? Facebook says they considered top games with more than 100,000 monthly active users with priority to those with highest user satisfaction scores. So the list is bascially of Facebook games with most user recommendations in 2011.

Where is Farmville you wonder… Some of the games were a surprise to me and to you also I think. The surprise winner was Gardens of Time.




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How to Force Browsers to Refresh CSS for Your WordPress Blog

How can you force your reader’s browser to refresh CSS files when you change CSS stylesheets in WordPress blogs? Unless you force CSS refresh, the regular visitors browser continues to load the old cached CSS files and new changes to the CSS on your site are never visible till the user decided to refresh the page, wherein the browser clears the CSS from the cache and loads a fresh current CSS file.

If you made minor changes, old cached CSS files might not make a difference. But what it you made substantial structural changes, or introduced new classes… your site would appear totally broken to regular visitors.  How many readers would think that refreshing the page will fix your site?

Force CSS Files Refresh

The answer is to force browsers to load the latest CSS file.

1. The way to do this is to change to a new CSS file name in the HEAD of the html, that will force the browser to load a new stylesheet file. But if you edit your CSS too frequently, its cumbersome to keep fixing new CSS files everytime and editing the source stylesheet name everytime.

I used to keep 3 CSS files like style1.css, style2.css, style3.css and keep cut pasting the latest code edits to the new one and updating the header.php file. An easier way is to add a so called version to your CSS file everytime like ?v=25122011, this will change the file name and force a refresh, but then again you have to change the file name everytime you edit WordPress stylesheets.

2. Then I came upon this nice trick suggested by WordPress developer Mark Jaquith, which suggests you use the function filetime which adds the server time the file was changed to the CSS url. Here is the code – cut and paste and try for yourself.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); echo '?' . filemtime( get_stylesheet_directory() . '/style.css'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen, projection" />

So we used this code and now our stylesheet call code in the HEAD looks like this
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/wp-content/themes/qot/style.css?1324491378" type="text/css" media="screen, projection" />

You note that the new code has made our stylesheet style.css?1324491378 – This number will change whenever we save a new version of the style.css and will force site visitors to load the fresh copy of the CSS file.

A smart trick which makes web designing easy for bloggers who like to tweak their site design every day…

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Download Facebook Messenger for Windows

Download Facebook Messenger for Windows as a standalone desktop app with which you can use without visiting the website facebook.com. Facebook released the new Facebook messenger as a trial app and you can download and try it right now

Download Facebook Messenger

As you surf the web, you can use the Facebook Messenger for Facebook Chat with your Facebook friends, see the latest updates from your friends in ticker and get quick Facebook updates and notifications.

After installing Facebook Messenger, you can easily do Facebook login and logout by right-clicking the Facebook icon in Windows system tray. Once you open the app, the app is undocked by default so that you can move it around your computer screen, but you can dock the app and fix it on the screen also.

Choose the “Keep me logged in” option and Messenger will keep you logged in to Facebook even after you close your browser or navigate away from Facebook. Remember, choosing Exit will close the app but still keep you logged into Facebook; therefore choose Log out to completely logout of both the Messenger app and facebook.com, especially if your computer has multiple users or public use.



Facebook Messenger has some limitations – unlike the website login, you cannot perform Facebook Chat with multiple friends, video calling, limit chat availability and edit settings as of now. You will need to go to your browser and login for that.

Download Facebook Messenger (.exe file). This will download a small .exe file, click that and it will download and install Facebook Messenger. The app will automatically install updates in future. Since this is a trial app, be ready to expect outages and periods of instability at times. System requirement says you need  Windows 7 (but I was easily able to download on my Windows Vista). You can uninstall Facebook Messenger anytime from Windows Control Panel.

You can also download Facebook Messenger App for mobile phones (available for Android, BlackBerry, and iPhone)




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How to Optimize WordPress Database Easily

What is the best and easiest way to optimize WordPress database? It is a good idea to optimize your WordPress database tables as useless data “Overhead” piles up over the years and slows your database down.

Our WordPress admin was getting really slow and so were the increasing  number of resource alerts. Like most WordPress bloggers, we too were always hesitant to meddle with the database fearing irreversible loss of data. There are many powerful WordPress database plugins, but they all seem too powerful and capable of modifying so much data, that it seemed better in expert hands. So we were looking for something very simple, easy and trustworthy.

Optimize WordPress Database

The we found the amazing Optimize DB plugin by Yoast, who is a well known creator of some other amazing plugins too. We simply installed and activated the plugin and it automatically analyzed how much database overheads it could save instantly. Then we backed up the database, though Vaultpress saves our latest database files automatically.

This what a partial screenshot of what we got. The plugin was going to optimize our WordPress database and save it by 33%!

Well there is only one button to click, and we clicked it. And in the next few seconds, it was all done.

The WordPress admin speed seems better, site resource alerts seem lower too.

Warning: Always back up your full database before attempting any database changes. This seems standard disclaimer, but is very essential to restore your database if something goes wrong (and sometimes things do go wrong).

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Find Your WordPress PHP, MySQL Versions Now

WordPress Bloggers must find the PHP version and MySQL version of their hosting server now.  The WordPress minimum requirements have changed and if your hosting server PHP and MySQL version is outdated, upon upgrade to WordPress 3.2, your site may not work.

PHP, MySQL Versions in WordPress

The minimum requirements for WordPress 3.1 (current version) are PHP 4.3 and MySQL 4.1.2. But the The minimum requirements for WordPress 3.2 (which is coming very soon) is PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL 5.0. So though most web hosting services would have updated their server, you need to be sure and not get stuck during update.

The easiest way is to install the Health Check Plugin – Its a simple WordPress plugin which will check checks PHP and MySQL versions of your server and compare them with WordPress 3.2 requirements.

We installed it and got an this response.

The response suggests excellent –  we are running on PHP 5.2.16 which better than required 5.2.4.

I suggest you also check your PHP and MySQL version and contact your webhosting if your server falls short. Of course, if your hosting provider cannot upgrade your PHP and MySQL, its time to find a new web hosting for your WordPress blog.

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bbPress WordPress Plugin Installs Forum in One Click

The first integration of bbPress forums as a WordPress plugin enables bloggers to add forums in one click to increase reader engagement to their site.

You read our 10 best reasons to install bbPress and for long time bbPress has been one of the best free forum softwares out there, and now it is also the easiest forum software you could ever integrate with WordPress. Right now the latest bbPress 2.0 beta in active development and you should try it on a test wordpress installation. Download bbPress WordPress Plugin (in beta testing) to see the new features.

bbPress WordPress integration

The new version will allow seamless integration with your WordPress site and theme, allowing integrated admin interface for forums, topics, and replies, splitting and merging topics within a single forum. Shortcodes will help you customize where your forums appear and there is the integrated child theme of TwentyTen for starters.

The power of WordPress will let you keep track of changes with topic and reply revisions, mark topics as favorites, receive emails when new replies are posted to topics you subscribe to, get forum widgets in sidebars and anonymous posting lets you open your community.

It will work with WordPress hooks, and Multisite application means that you can host unlimited bbPress forums. The important thing is there are no additional database tables and it promises to work in sync with BuddyPress Forums and WP caching plugins.

Something great is happening … I know a lot of bbPress forum owners are looking for the importer to migrate all their forums to the new WordPress integrated platform … and the time will come soon. I tried the beta and it is still buggy as of now, but I am sure the amazing WordPress community will make it better soon, and them all WordPress bloggers can get a one click forum of their own. Meanwhile there are many other WordPress Forum Plugins you can also try.

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