How to Exclude Pages Posts & Categories From Search Results in WordPress
If you want to hide pages from appearing when your readers use the default WordPress search box on your website, you have several options…
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How to Style The Same Widgets Differently
You can style your widgets simply by grabbing the widget class using a Web Development browser extension named Firebug. And you can grab the widget class from your source code and add it to a new CSS rule…
How to Easily Make WordPress Images Responsive
Responsive images can be big on wide screens and automatically adapt to smaller screens such as iPad. Making your images responsive is not difficult to do: Here is a simple recipe to achieve it on your blog…
WordPress Snippets, Hacks and Tips to Enhance your Comments Section
Comments are a very important aspect of a blog because it is where the readers interact with the blogger. In today’s article, I’m showing you lots of WordPress snippets, hacks and tips to enhance your blog comments section…
How to Display Post Attachments in a List
While building an order tracking system, where I used Custom Meta Boxes to collect and store custom data about each order, I had a need to be able to upload documents (such as invoices and authorisations) to each order…
How to Add Tables in WordPress Posts and Pages Without HTML
WordPress comes with a visual post editor which is nice, but there are certain things that it can not do. Creating tables is one of them. Tables are an important tool to sort and present data in an understandable format. Even…
32 Quick Ways to Speed Up Your WordPress Site
Load time greatly effects how visitors interact with your website. Fast load times make your visitors happy, and slow load times frustrate users and cause them to leave. Duh. Everyone knows that. In fact, just a one second delay…
A Comprehensive Guide to Yoast’s WordPress SEO Plugin
Search Engine Optimization is an ongoing process which requires a lot of patience, with equally sweet returns. One of the many reasons to love WordPress is because it enables us to implement SEO in our website without…
How to Create Post Tags With CSS
In this tutorial we are going to create post tags using CSS, we will also create a WordPress widget that will allow you to display these post tags in the sidebar of your WordPress site…
How to Enable Shortcodes In Widget Areas
Simply pasting a shortcode into any of your widget areas generally won’t work. To enable the use of shortcodes in any widget area, on any theme, simply add this code to your child themes functions.php file…
WordPress Plugins To Manage A Multi-Authored Blog
Content is king and getting co-authors / guest writers to post content on your blog is the easiest way to boost the quantity (and quality) of your blog. However, managing multiple writers is not an easy job – especially when…
How to Display Your Most Popular WordPress Posts Using Jetpack Stats
Your most popular posts are usually your best work and are likely to attract new subscribers to your blog. If you already have the Jetpack stats module active on your WordPress site, here’s a quick tip for putting your stats to good…
5 Features to Consider when Choosing a WordPress Theme
There are so many advantage of using WordPress websites over static HTML ones. WordPress websites are cheaper and easier to build, can be easily updated and edited and allows users to add a number of social…
How to Recover a Lost Password in WordPress
Forgetting password for any kind of web service is a common problem. Even the most tech savvy people forget their passwords. In the past, we have shown you how to reset your WordPress password using phpMyAdmin…
Restrict Admin Area To Only Admin Users
When you create a new user in the WordPress user manager they will be able to login to your site by going to the default WordPress login page /wp-login.php. Depending on the role you have assigned to this user they will see…
Making the Best of WordPress Categories: Tips and Tools
Back in October of last year, I wrote an article about using tags in WordPress. Today, we shall be turning our attention towards the usage of categories in WordPress. Once again, before we proceed, allow me to disclaim…
Digg Digg WordPress Plugin Review
Digg Digg is a social share plugin for WordPress. When installed, the user can add the ability for their website visitors to share their content on social networks and social bookmarking sites. The plugin offers a few ways to…
How to Add Subtle Background Patterns to WordPress
Subtle Patterns is a popular design resource for finding free, lightweight backgrounds to customize your website. Here you will find patterns that are easy on the eyes and tile perfectly to create pleasant backgrounds…
A Complete Guide to Using WP_Query In WordPress
If you’ve been around WordPress for a while, you’ll know how difficult it used to be to create lists of posts based on complex criteria while also conforming to WordPress’ standards. Over the course of a few years, the platform…
How to Display Post Attachment Count in Admin Post List
If you’re using many attachments in your posts, you might like to be able to visualize how many attachments a post have just from the admin post list. Here is a quick recipe to force WordPress to display post attachment…