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Tutorials

How to Add a Delete Button to the WordPress Admin Bar

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I came across this nice little piece of code recently at wpengineer.com. It adds a Delete button to your WordPress Admin Bar when you’re on a single post page. This lets you easily delete a post from your front end – very handy for some sites that end up doing a lot of deleting for one reason or another.

To use this, enter the following code into your functions.php file.  (Appearance > Edit > Theme Functions – functions.php)
function fb_add_admin_bar_trash_menu() {
global $wp_admin_bar;
if ( !is_super_admin() || !is_admin_bar_showing() )
return;
$current_object = get_queried_object();
if ( empty($current_object) )
return;
if ( !empty( $current_object->post_type ) &&

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Plugins

How to Stop WordPress Trackback Spam

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If you’re having a problem with WordPress trackback spam, then there are few different ways to go about combating it.
Turn Off Trackbacks
The first method is pretty obvious – just turn trackbacks off.

To do this, go to Settings > Discussions > uncheck “Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks).”

 

 

So this is fine, and a sure fix, but what if you want to allow legitimate trackbacks? Well, there are few different plugins you can choose from.

 
Simple Trackback Validation – Download

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Tutorials

How to Find Your WordPress Database Name

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If you’ve ever had the need to find the name of your WordPress database, then there’s an easy way to do that – simply look for it in your wp-config.php file located in the root folder of your WordPress install.
Accessing Your WP-Config.php File
If you are doing something where you need the name of your database, then I’m assuming you have access to your server.

Simply go to the main folder of your WordPress install and locate the file called wp-config.php.

 

Open that file by clicking “View” or “Edit” or however your system lets you see the file.

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Freebies, Themes

10 Free WordPress Video Themes

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Let’s be honest — there’s no big intro needed here. You want to run a video site. You want to run it on WordPress. You want a theme that will help you do that. And you want that theme for free.

Voila! …
1. Sundance -  DEMO | DOWNLOAD

2. Video from Templatic – DEMO | DOWNLOAD

3. WTB Video Theme – DEMO | DOWNLOAD

4. Selecta – DEMO | DOWNLOAD

5. Word Tube – DEMO | DOWNLOAD

6. Cinematic – DEMO | DOWNLOAD

7. Smashing Multimedia – DEMO | DOWNLOAD

8. WPTube – DEMO | DOWNLOAD

9. Foxinni Video – DEMO | DOWNLOAD

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Plugins

WordPress Read More Plugins to Help You Control Your Excerpts

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Nearly everyone with a website wants their visitors to “read more.”

And by that I mean they want their readers to click on the little link at the bottom of an excerpt that by default these days says, “Continue Reading.”

Below we’ve collected some “read more” plugins to help you gain more control over your excerpts, the links that go with them, and in some cases, even their corresponding full posts as well.
Read More Right Here – Download Here

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News, Plugins

Not Much Overlap in the Olympic and WordPress Worlds

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The 2012 Summer Olympics have their official opening ceremonies this coming Friday, the 27th in London. And so I thought I would look around for some WordPress/Olympics connections.

I took a look around earlier in the year but didn’t find much. And so recently I went back at it, but I’m still not finding much.

As WordPress developers and designers are usually very good about jumping on hot topics (like Pinterest), I thought I might find more going on in the WordPress world concerning the Olympics, but the pickings were pretty slim.

I did, however, find a few things.

 

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Themes

20 Free WordPress Pinterest-Style Themes

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Pinterest has obviously gotten a lot of attention lately. And whenever something like that comes along and gets hot in people’s minds, you can be sure that some enterprising WordPress theme developers will come along and offer themes that allow you to give your site a similar look and feel.

Below we’ve collected twenty free themes that can give your site at least somewhat of a Pinterest feel.

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Community, News

New Official WordPress Contributor Group Announced for Offline Organizers

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WordPress.org has recently announced a new official contributor group devoted to organizers of in-person, offline WordPress events.

The group is meant to be a place where people like WordCamp and WordPress Meetup organizers can gather to do some of the following …

share ideas and feedback
create connections
get information on policies surrounding official events
work on group projects
get and/or give mentoring
participate in WordCamp video curation for WordPress.tv

On a related note, it seems that a forthcoming centralized WordPress Meetup group is also in the works.

Again, you can check out the group here and get in on the action if you like.

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Tutorials

How to Remove WordPress Comment Tags Message with CSS for a Clean Look

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Although some people like them, some people don’t. They are the notices that tells users which HTML tags are permissible in a comments box. Whether they appear or not on your site depends on your theme. Here’s an example of a theme using one of these notices.

 
Removing the Tags Allowed Message
If you’re in the camp that thinks this message is either unnecessary, messy, or both, then this little CSS trick should help you remove it and keep your comments area a little cleaner.

Step 1 – Inspect the Element

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