Most WordPress plugins and themes will offer yearly subscriptions to receive updates and support. I do understand the need of recurring and predictable revenue for companies to keep up with the development costs. However, I’m a huge fan of lifetime deals (LTDs) and I can’t say no to such an opportunity whenever it arises. As …
You may often find that the only way to customize a WordPress plugin or theme is with a custom code snippet. Most guides on how to implement the code snippets recommend adding them to the functions.php file of your theme. There are 3 main downsides to using this solution: The changes you make to the …
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The “Destination folder already exists” error message is shown when a user is trying to upload a WordPress plugin or theme, preventing the plugin/theme from being installed. For this guide, I am updating Yoast SEO Premium to the latest version. I am updating it by uploading the newest version, as I want to replicate this …
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Are you looking to share users and login sessions between two or more WordPress websites? If so, you can learn how to do it step-by-step by following this guide. Recently, I found myself in a situation where I needed to add a bbPress and BuddyPress “section” to a website (we’ll call this site B), although …
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If you post usually contains images and they are large enough to not fit in your content area, then you might wanna put a lightbox effect to them. But most of us, especially me, hate to manual add lightbox to every single image. Plus, manually adding lightbox to photos would also require us to edit …
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WordPress displays “Enter title here” placeholder text in the title field on the post screen where you create new posts. When we create custom post types, there is no default parameter to change this text. BUT… (I love the fact that there’s always a but, ahhhha!!) here’s a simple snippet which allows you to change …
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Jetpack automatically adds Open Graph tags to your site, which can be annoying.You don’t need these tags if you don’t want, or if you’re using other plugins for this job. It is annoying, but it’s easy to disable this feature with a one-liner (snippet, not joke). Here’s how you can disable Jetpack’s open graph tags …
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to add user roles to WordPress with some basic capabilities. It can be a very useful trick if you run a membership. function tp_add_role() { add_role( ‘newbie’, ‘Newbie’, array( ‘read’, ‘edit_posts’, ‘delete_posts’, ‘manage_categories’, ‘upload_files’, ) ); } add_action( ‘init’, ‘tp_add_role’ ); You can get more details about WordPress …
WordPress comes out with five default roles. Most of them aren’t necessary for most of the websites. Here’s a snippet to remove user roles from WordPress. For example, I just have a single admin user on this website and my personal website. Do you need a writer or editor for your own personal website? No, …
Few weeks back, I shared a simple script which sends email notifications to users when someone or they update their profile. Here’s a simple script which sends email notifications when user role changes in WordPress. It’s a great way to notify your site’s users about role changes. It’s must-use snippet if you’re running a WordPress …
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WordPress comes out with some powerful tools to manage media on your blog, but it lacks one essential feature: it doesn’t allow users to replace media files. If you want to change an image (or any any other media file) on your website, you would normally have to manually update all URLs of the old …
In April, I coded a simple WordPress plugin which allows you to add Open Graph meta tags to your WordPress site. I thought I should also share a way to add Open Graph meta tags to Blogger blogs. Of course, we can’t install a plugin to Blogger but there are other ways too. Open Graph …
WordPress has have_comments(); conditional tag to check if a post has comments in it. It’s easy to create a comments.php file for your theme to show comments using this tag, but there’s no such tag like this for checking if a post has pingbacks or trackbacks. A theme which shows comments and pings in a …
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WordPress 4.0 will come out next week with a lot of new features, including all new plugin installer. WordPress 4.0 adds plugin icons in plugin installer. This change will not affect WordPress’ plugin directory, but will only add the icon to plugin installer. All plugin authors are advised to add a plugin icon to their …
Most of the websites sends an automatic email notification when a user updates his profile. It’s good for security because the user can find out if his user profile is being updated without his permission. It’s a simple script which automatically sends email notifications when user profile updates in WordPress by the user itself or …
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Let me guess! You were updating your WordPress site or plugin to a newer version and it took forever to update…or maybe same happened with WordPress’ automatic update features, and now all you’re left it with following maintenance message on your WordPress: [alert style=”white”]Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.[/alert] Looks scary, …
If you’re running a website covering news based on many different categories then you might wanna use custom template for posts based on categories. If there are different post formats then you can also use custom template for post formats. Using A Different Post Template For example, we will create a different post template for …
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WordPress uses a MySQL database to collect and store all the information. Your database is the brain of your WordPress site because it is the place where all your settings and posts are being stored. Your WordPress database is also a target of all the bad hackers. The best way to protect your database is …
If you’re running a website where you embed/link YouTube videos then you might wanna display YouTube video views count on your website. Here’s how to do it. This snippet was used by me when I was working on a client’s website earlier this hour. This is probably the easiest way to display views count. Just drop …
I love Jetpack’s stats module but I have a simple problem with it. I’m a former Blogger user, which shows post views in the post page. However, Jetpack shows post views on its own stats page. Here’s a great snippet from Rich Collier’s site which adds Jetpack post views column to WordPress posts page which …
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