A customized WordPress login is a nice touch to any site, especially if you’re making it for someone other than yourself. There should be no need to install a plugin to do this for you. In order to keep your site lean, you’ll want to avoid adding loads of plugins that do little things like [...]
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Enabling custom backgrounds is probably one of the easiest things you can do to improve a WordPress theme that you’re building or customizing. It takes one small addition to your theme’s functions.php file: add_custom_background(); Save that and you’ll get Backgrounds added to the Dashboard >> Appearance menu, as shown here. This will allow you or [...]
Top Search Queries is one of the most useful services provided by Google Webmaster Tools. It provides you with detailed information about when your site pops up in their search engine and what pages are attracting clicks. Specifically, you’ll find out: The total number of Google Web Search queries that returned pages from your site [...]
If you receive an error with your WordPress network, chances are that it is due to a failure that happens when WordPress cannot find one or more of the global tables for the network in the database. There are three major steps to walk through in the debugging process. This will help you to cover [...]
If you’re getting a fair bit of spam on older blog posts, you may want to disable commenting on posts older than a year or two. Because your posts are still indexed by search engines, you’ll still be getting traffic there, but you may not want the burden of answering questions on posts that are [...]
Creating an online store is a process that may seem mysterious and complicated when you first look at it. This guide will help to simplify the process and get you selling in no time. If you want to use WordPress to manage your e-commerce operation, then we’ll take you there from start to finish. There [...]
by Joe
OK, so everybody is always talking about how WordPress is no longer a simple blogging platform but a true CMS. This is true, WordPress can be put to use for a wide variety of websites, whether it be a local community website or, especially with the help of WPMUdev.org, a fully-fledged social networking arena. However, [...]
Checking your error logs can help you to isolate the source of problems you’re having with your WordPress installation. It can also help you to describe your issues more accurately to others who might be of help. Nearly every one of us has turned to forums for help when troubleshooting WordPress. Articulating your problem when [...]
Here’s a bit of code that I’ve found to be handy. Sometimes you have a site that is already running so many plugins and you hesitate to add another one on top just to display popular posts. Instead you can use this to change your WordPress loop to show your most popular posts by comment [...]
If you enable post thumbnails for your theme, you will find that you may not like the default size. If you want all of your post thumbnail images to be the same size throughout your theme, then you can set it in functions.php: set_post_thumbnail_size( 100, 100 ); // 100 pixels wide by 100 pixels tall, [...]
