How many times have you been through the boring task of deleting hundreds of spam comments in your unapproved/pending comments list? You can use WPCommentCleaner plugin to quickly delete unapproved comments, spams or approved comments in one click.
If 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.
An image slider makes websites and blogs interesting. If you are using WordPress, you can add an image slider using any good plug-in. For those looking to add a simple slider easily, you must install the WP Cycle plug-in on your WordPress site.
WordPress has an RSS feed that your visitors can subscribe to get latest updates about new posts. By default, the WordPress RSS feed does not include featured thumbnails that might be part of your theme. Do you want to show thumbnails in RSS feeds? By adding this function to your theme’s functions.php file, you can display a featured image in the RSS feed if the post has one.
Want to show a list of most recently updated posts and pages in WordPress? You can add a list of recently updated posts/pages by adding a code snippet to your WordPress theme in any template file where you want it to appear.
Do you want to show all your WordPress posts in a dropdown menu? It can come handy to allow your visitors browse through the website quickly. Below is the code for creating a dropdown menu with all the posts in it. You can add the code to any template file such as sidebar.php in your WordPress theme.
WordPress is often used to create websites which do not need feeds (RSS feeds, atom feeds, etc). Sometimes we just want to mimic a HTML website. You can disable the feeds functionality of WordPress.
How often do you update your posts just after publishing it on WordPress? For me, almost every post is updated at least once almost immediately after publishing the post or page on my WordPress blogs and websites. I happen to find some error or the other a few minutes later. By the time the post is updated, it has already been sent to RSS subscribers as well as social media platforms such as Twitter. You can delay publishing of content in various FEEDS.
By default, WordPress does not allow contributors to upload files. Contributors have limited access to your WordPress website. This is often preferred for security and management of the website. If you have multiple authors with posting rights set as “contributor” but you want to allow them to upload images, audio, videos and other allowed files, paste the code below in your theme’s functions.php file.
Social media proof can be very effective in impressing new visitors. How to display number of FaceBook fans in WordPress blog or website?