Do you create WordPress themes for clients? Or just want a customised WordPress admin area in the back-end? You might also be looking for customisation to make it a better experience for your registered members to access the back-end to update their profiles or add some posts. Whatever your reason, WordPress allows you to easily tweak the admin dashboard.
Read moreYou must have seen how many websites convert all URLs and email addresses into clickable links without you having to add any HTML code. The system automatically detects URLs and email addresses in the content and converts them into links. If you have a WordPress website that includes lots of raw URLs and emails that you want to make clickable, it is fairly easy to do so.
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How can you make the first post in the WordPress query loop look distinct from the others? You need to add a CSS style specific to the first article in the post list and then style it accordingly. Now the real problem—how do you add a CSS style class only to the first post in the WordPress loop?
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If you need to keep your website down while you perform an upgrade or solve some problem, there are plenty of WordPress plugins that allow you to activate the maintenance mode and show a “Down for Maintenance” message to visitors. However, you can do this even without adding to the clutter of plugins on your WordPress site.
Read moreShortcodes are pretty cool way of formatting content as well as doing a lot of other things. However, common users can often have problems when they have to remember and type the shortcodes to achieve the desired results. Even if you are a pro at WordPress, you can still forget some shortcode exists in your WordPress theme. It would have been easy if all shortcodes were available for selection in a dropdown media button in the text editor.
Read moreDo you want to remove the theme editor from your WordPress blog/website? There can be various scenarios when the theme editor is not required at all in the WordPress dashboard. For instance, you are creating a website for your client who does not need to make any changes to the theme. You might have multiple administrators for your website, but you do not want them to have access to the theme edit panel. Then there is the risk of an accidental change to the theme.
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WordPress automatically adds a rel=”nofollow” attribute to external links in comments, but it doesn’t happen automatically within post content. If you want to automatically add rel=”nofollow” attribute to external links in your post content without using any plug-in, here is a simple WordPress hack.
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Do you want to embed audio files in your WordPress blog that your visitors could listen? Using HTML5, which is supported by most modern browsers, you can just add the location of the audio file using the AUDIO tag. Compatible Web browsers will automatically insert an audio player with necessary Play-Pause controls.
Read moreEach WordPress website uses a theme to create the user interface or the front-end look. Generally, themes do not have a built-in feature to allow use of custom HTML page. You can use a custom HTML template/webpage in WordPress by adding the same as a template.
Read moreIf you have multiple WordPress websites, you might want to show titles and excerpts of latest posts of one site on another. You can also use the RSS (Real Simple Syndication) feeds of other websites and show them on your own WordPress site. Use the code snippet blow to show RSS feed of any website in your WordPress blog.
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