How to clear your Facebook search history | Remove awful search bar history.

Just like news feed and timeline, Facebook introduced another new technology just in March 2013 and they named it as Facebook Graph search. It is a semantic search engine that provides well defined search results for users. Yes! Facebook graph search makes us easier to find out nearby places, restaurants and lot more. Not just that, it shows all your activity logs and anything everything that you searched in Facebook.

Just like Google auto search, Facebook tracks all your activity logs and suggest the results based on your previous searches. How do you really feel when Facebook suggests awful, creepy and offensive results in search bar? This is a bit terrifying one, especially when you use Facebook in front of your co-worker or someone who is special. Here we will see 

how to clear Facebook search history.

Facebook keeps every word that you type in search bar and this search history is private and can be seen only by you. Facebook provides high security, but anyhow don’t risk yourself by leaving your mobile or PC without logging out from Facebook account. Clearing all your search history is a good action if you’re really concerned on someone who digs your search history. This simple guide tells you 

how to clear and delete all Facebook search history.

How to clear Facebook search history

View your profile timeline in Facebook and at the top right corner you will see Activity log that is just next to Update info.

Activity log is the place where you can see all your Facebook activities and searches. You can find all your posts, photos, likes, comments, photos of you, photos you are tagged in, groups, events and search history. Now again at the top right corner you will see a box that says “include only me activity” which is unchecked by default. By checking this you are lining up your entire private activities and searches that are hidden from your timeline.

Now explore more option from the right hand side and you can see all your activity logs in category base. In case if you are worried about any likes or comments that you made then you can easily find out and remove it from activity logs. So the main thing troubled you is the search bar history and we will now see on deleting your Facebook history.

To clear history click on more that is next to photos, likes and comments. Now click on search at the beneath and you will see all your search history from the beginning. Again at the top right corner that is in search page you will see an option to clear search history.

Facebook opens a pop box when you select to clear history and that is to confirm clear cache. It says “search histories are used to show most relevant results for you” and the final decision is up to you. If you wish so then click clear searches and you are done.

You have erased all your search history and from now on the history page gets filled up again. You can delete all the history again after few weeks or months.

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How to hide Facebook friends list from public and other friends

Facebook is one of the widest social media on the internet, everyday people from different parts of the world get connected, share content, chat each other’s, browse photos and seek information about peoples and places. It has become a social phenomenon and many have even started using it as a diary.  By default all your information, activities, friends list, posts, photos are public and it can be viewed by anyone. If you wish to hide and protect your private and personal information from strangers then you must tune up your privacy settings.

Many people in Facebook are not aware and never use their privacy settings. Considering your security and privacy Facebook offers you various settings and you have to make proper use of that. Without setting up your privacy, one day or other you might end up in trouble. Here are some must know privacy settings in Facebook which will be helpful for you to tune up your privacy settings. Also we have previously shared a post on how to hide Facebook posts from certain people. Now here we will see how to hide your Facebook friends list.

How to hide Facebook friends list from public and other friends

Most folks don’t like to show their friends list to strangers and so they hide it just from public, but make it visible to their current friends. There are others who completely hide their friend list from both public and friends, making it only visible to their own. Also there are few who hide their friends list from both public and friends, but still making it visible to certain friends (close friends).

So why do people hide their friends list on Facebook? Each one of them will have different privacy concerns and reasons. Some hide it because they don’t like to explore the cool friends list that they have. Some hide it because they don’t like to show their friends list and other relationship circles to their ex-girlfriend or ex-boyfriend. Some hide it because they have a worthy business contacts. All that depends upon people and their activities. Alright here comes the step by step information to hide your Facebook friends list.

Step 1: Go to Facebook.com, login to your account and open up your profile page.

Step 2: Now see whether your friends list is publicly available to everyone or only available to your friends. To do so, drop down the gear icon next to activity log and then click on view as (public and friends).

Step 3:  Next click on “friends” option which will open a page where you can see your entire friends list, recently added, followers and following.

Step 4: Now at the corner, drop down the small pencil icon and then select edit privacy.

Step 5: Now you will have privacy options for friend list, following and followers. Choose whether to show your friends list to friends, only me or custom option. In custom settings you will have more options, you can choose specific people, friends of friends and also you can hide your friends list to a group of peoples, making it visible only to certain friends. When you have edited your privacy settings click on save changes.

Now your Facebook friends list is completely hidden from public and other people based on your settings. But one thing that is still visible to your friends that is your mutual friends list. So what is that called, mutual friends list. Mutual friend’s mean friend in common that is you and your friend both have a friend in common. Mutual friends are not visible to public, but in still Facebook there is no option to hide mutual friends list from your friends.

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How to hide Facebook posts from some friends or certain people.

Most of the Facebook users does not like to share their personal information to the whole world. Facebook is a wide network with billions of users that connects us with friends, families, friends of friends etc.  We do not know all those Facebook friends in our real life and so sharing specific personal information to them is not a good idea. This doesn’t means to unfriend them or completely block them from viewing your timeline. Just hide certain posts that you think it to be personal, so that you can maintain your privacy.

Every one of us will often have a business acquaintances or an annoying family member in Facebook whom we cannot unfriend, but most of the time we get tired of having them in our connection. Facebook by considering all that social pressures in mind offers you various privacy settings which you can tune it utmost. Here in this post we will see how to hide Facebook posts from certain people without unfriending them.

How to hide Facebook posts from certain people

Now let’s see how to hide certain posts such as status message, photos, link or a video from certain people.

Step 1: Whenever you post a new entry in your Facebook status tab (such as status message, photos and videos) you will see a drop down option close next to post or share button. Just click and drop down.

Step 2: You will now have four options to choose from such as Public, Friends, Only me and custom. The default one may be Public, friends or only me depending upon your global privacy settings.

Step 3: To hide a Facebook status post from certain people you have to choose the custom option. This custom privacy option enables you to share a post just to certain people, list you manage or hiding it from a group or specific people.

Step 4: Just choose whom you want to share your post and whom you don’t want. If you wish to hide your post from certain peoples then just type in an individual name or group name in “don’t share this with” box (for example: Your mom, dad, boss or ex names) and Facebook will auto completes.

Step 5: When done click on save changes and post your update without any bother. To make the process easy every time you can create a list and organize people in to it.

Basically the process is same for restricting or hiding links, photos and videos from specific people. You will have the privacy option each time when you attach a file or choose a photo or video to upload.

Maintaining privacy in social networks in very much important because it determines who we are, how we are and how we want to be. You have to decide which part of your life to share and whom to share with. Check out these must know privacy settings in Facebook.

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Complete guide to wordpress basics | WordPress made easy.

Are you a new blogger in the digital era? then for a complete guide to wordpress basics you should read this article. Why you have to choose wordpress? when there are lots of open source CMS(Content Management System). You know why because wordpress is free and widely used blogging platform and it  has many features. It is easy to install, customize and to use.

As a beginner you will be needing all the single steps to be explained briefly. What ?this is a complete guide to wordpress basics? Yes but I am not going to do that in this single article. As it is lot to tell you will just learn the features and navigation of wordpress in this post, so you can understand what is what.

WordPress Front-end

Here in the image below you can see the site structure. This type applies to most of the sites not only for wordpress sites.

• Header – Here comes your site logo along with tagline, next is header menu for your page navigation.
• Content area – All your post and page content goes here.
• Sidebar – You can place all your widgets here.
• Footer – This place is for copyright content and for footer widgets.

WordPress Back-end (editing & managing your site)

• Dashboard – In dashboard you can see wordpress welcome message and a short detail about your site (number of pages, posts, category & comments)
• Posts – Publish, edit & delete all your blog posts and category.
• Media – In media library you can add your images and other media files
• Pages – Same as posts add, edit & delete all your pages. Here is the guide for adding post & pages
• Comments – You can see your approved and pending comments.
• Appearance

Here it comes ! In appearance you can totally change the look and feel of your site.

Themes – In appearance 1st thing you will be seeing is themes here you can Install and manage your themes.
Widgets – This place is unlimited you can place anything you want in your widgets like calendar, Ads, images, pages, categories, plugins.
Menus – Add your custom menus with pages and categories. Brief about themes, widgets & menus
Header & background – This option’s will preview your header and background. You can change Site’s logo and background by selecting an image and has the feature of changing colors.
Editor – This part is only for intermediate’s and pro’s and not for beginners. It contains all PHP files and CSS

• Plugins –  Add, delete & manage your plugins. Here is the Guide to install plugin for beginners explained.
• Users – Manage your profile. Add, edit and delete users. Set privileges for users only administrator can do that.
• Settings – Manage your site title, tagline, e-mail for user notification and in-case you forget your password, blog settings, comment/media settings and your site’s URL structure.

In this complete guide to wordpress basics you have found some helpful related links. Make use of that so you can get a complete idea on wordpress.

WordPress Themes, Widgets and Menus | For Beginners.

This post is the continuation of WordPress basics. It covers the appearance section wordpress themes, widgets and menus where you can completely modify your website’s look and feel as you like.

1. Themes

As there are so many wordpress developers you can find tons of free & premium wordpress themes available to download just Google it. Here is how to install and manage wordpress themes.

Installing theme via wordpress back-end

1. Go to Appearance > Themes and click install themes. You will see featured, newest and recent updated where you get free basic themes.
2. Go to upload and choose a file that you have downloaded already and upload it as a zip file.
3. Now go to manage themes and activate your theme.

Installing theme via FTP

1. For this you will be needing a FTP client download FileZilla.
2. Have the theme file unzipped
3. Just drag and drop the unzipped theme file to this path /public_html/wp-content/themes
4. Go to manage themes and activate your theme

Once you have done installing your theme with any one of the above methods reload your webpage. Your new theme is installed! now start customizing your theme.

2. Widgets

With widgets you can add content and features to your sidebar. Features like pages links, recent posts, blog archives, calendar, tag cloud, Facebook like box, ads, twitter tweets, Flickr photos and so on…. You can get more widgets in wordpress site, moreover your theme comes with some widgets that you can add it to your sidebar.

Adding widgets is easy just drag and drop the widgets you want it to your sidebar.

3. Menus

You can create your custom menu and add it to your wordpress site. Some themes support three menus primary menu, header menu and footer menu. Custom menu supports pages, links and categories.

1. First enter the name and create new menu.
2. Select pages, links and categories that you want and add it to your menu.
3. Select the menu and add it to your theme locations.

 

        

Guide for adding post & pages in Wordpress.

This article is for beginners who are confused with posts and pages in wordpress. You will have a doubt that both post and pages have same field, then why should i use both. Yes they are both same when it comes to look and feel ( theme & content), but there is more difference with posts & pages.

Complete guide to wordpress basics | WordPress made easy.

POSTS

Blogging is done through posts and not with pages. Each post will have a specific date & time so that the subscribed users find latest posts via RSS and it comes with categories and tags.

It works in reverse chronological order, each and every post that you are making goes in reverse order (ie new posts shows up and older posts fades down). If you have a huge number of blog posts only few recent show up and the remaining older posts you have to find in blog archives. You can share your daily posting to social networking sites, by this your site gets updated day by day.

WordPress Themes, Widgets and Menus | For Beginners.

How to add a post & categories

Before adding a new post you must first create a category, in order to specify that the post is related to that category.

1. Go to posts in your wordpress dashboard and click categories.
2. Name the category and click add new category.
3. Now go to all posts and click add new.
4. Enter your post title and content
5. Specify the category that your content is related to and click publish. You can see the published article in your blog page, which will show the posted date, time & author.

PAGES

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Pages don’t have categories & tags, pages are not listed day by day like you post, they are static, pages don’t come with posted date and time, not listed in RSS, no sharing options or commenting options(but it has).

Will you have a commenting option in your about us and contact page of your site? no one does it. A page can have multiple sub-pages that a post don’t. Each page can have their custom layout style.

How to add a page

Adding a page is same as doing with post. Just go to page in admin panel enter your page title and content then click publish. Set the page attributes before publishing so that pages are arranged in order in the main menu.

I hope you won’t get confused with posts and pages in wordpress again from now on.

Complete guide to blogging with blogger for Beginners.

There are still many who don’t know how to start a blog and for them we have decided to make a post on beginners guide to blogging with blogger. For starters you have three options Free (wordpress.com, blogger, Tumblr), commercial (Square space) and self-hosted (WordPress.org, Joomla, Drupal) blogging platforms.

If you are willing to spend some bucks for domain name and hosting then wordpress will be the right choice and here is the beginners guide to wordpress and if you are not willing to spend even a single buck then Google’s blogger is the best choice to kick start your blog.

Beginners guide to blogging with blogger covers the following:

1. Introduction to blogger.com
2. Setting up blogger
3. Dashboard in a nutshell
4. Making your first post
5. Themes and Layouts
6. Your blog settings

What is blogger.com? And what can I do?

Blogger is a free blog publishing tool by Google where you can start posting anything you want like photos, videos, text, links and more.

Starting with blogger

All you need to start a blog with blogger is a Gmail account which we hope you have one and with single account you can have unlimited blogs u want. Once you login http://blogger.com/Click “New Blog” in left hand side, a pop up shows where you need to enter your blog title, blog address (yourblogname.blogspot.com) and choose a template that looks cool and create blog!

Dashboard in a nutshell

That’s it you have created a new blog. Now open it to view your dashboard, it’s a place where you are capable of managing your complete blog. Bloggers dashboard is simple, lies left side in a vertical bar and beginners find it easy to navigate the features.

The first thing you will see is overview of your blog that is number of page views per day and over all, number of posts, number of comments and number of followers and also below right hand side you will see useful links on guide to blogger which you can make use of.

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Making your first post

The first thing you need to know is the difference between posts and pages and we have explained it for wordpress and that implies for blogger too.

So what to post? Post anything you want like family profiles, information, photos, videos, links and more. How to post? In your dashboard menu you will see posts below overview option open and create a new post.

In post editor screen you will see to options compose and HTML. For beginners it’s recommended to use compose option (WYSIWYG). Give a well suited title for your post and explain your post with text, images and videos you like.

You can find content editor at the top and once you done created your post click save to save your post in drafts, click preview to preview your post and click publish to publish your post. Click view blog in the top and you will see your blog in new tab.

Pages: The next thing is to adding pages. You will see Home page as default you can add as many pages you want like about page, blog page and contact page and set the arrangement by just dragging and dropping one by one and show pages as top tabs or side links.

 Themes and Layouts

Layout is where you arrange and manage your blogs layout. To add a logo to your blog click edit header and choose an image and upload. You can add as many gadgets in your sidebar and gadgets are additional plugins that adds more features for your blog. Click “add a gadget” and you will see a list of gadgets available. Change the footer content for your copyright and
you cannot remove the “powered by blogger” text. 

In template option you can see your blogs sample preview for mobile and desktop. Click “customize” and you will see a bunch of options to modify your theme where you can pick template, choose backgrounds; adjust width, layout, font styles, font color, CSS and more. The changes you make will preview below and you can choose the right design for your blog.

Settings of your blog

Once you open settings the first thing you will be seeing is “basic settings” where you can edit title, description and privacy to your blog. You can change your blog address if you want.

In post and comments settings you can edit the number of posts to appear in front page and set who to post comments to your blog.

Select language, enable transliteration and set time zone for your blog in language and formatting settings

You can set search preferences and add robots.txt which is not recommended for beginners. If you want to import or export your blog then use other settings and you can add Google analytics id which tracks the traffic data of your blog. Moreover you can easily integrate Google adsense from your dashboard menu which we not included in this topic.

Now we hope you got a complete idea with beginners guide to blogging with blogger. If you have any queries regarding blogger then comment below so that out team members can help you.