How To Automatically Embed Your Github Gists On WordPress

If you’re an active Github member, then you just might find today’s featured tutorial very helpful in your blogging tasks. It’s from Robert O’Rourke and what it does is it automatically embeds gists from your Github by pasting the URL into your post or page. All you have to do is paste the following code [...]

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Extracting YouTube Videos Using PHP

I’d like to share this nice PHP snippet that some of you would find useful. It’s a code that extracts the video title and the download URL from a YouTube page and then initiates a download sequence. There are already a lot of methods posted out there on the web on how to do this [...]

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How To Customize the WordPress Admin Login Logo

Here’s a great quick tutorial that will let you customize the default administration (wp-admin.php) logo on the login screen. This can be a nice little WordPress trick to know especially if you’d like to impress your client a little bit, because after all, nothing feels quite like having to see your own brand or logo [...]

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Automatically Email Guest Authors When Their Posts Are Published

Today’s featured WordPress tutorial will surely be very helpful to blog owners who run a multi-authored blog or blogs with lots of guest authors. This useful snippet is taken from a portion of one of Daniel Pataki’s SmashingMagazine articles regarding WordPress hooks. For now, let’s find out how you can automatically send emails to your [...]

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Disabling/Enabling Comments To All Or Unregistered Users Only

There are different reasons why some webmasters would prefer to either enable the commenting feature to registered users only or to disable it completely from everybody. This tutorial is about how we can do the same to our blogs or sites. Sometimes it’s easier to modify comment status and delete unwanted comments on a sitewide [...]

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How To Exclude A Category From Your WordPress Feed

Today I’d like to share with all of you this nice WordPress trick I stumbled on created by Joseph Foley; it shows you how to exclude one or more category from your WP feed. All it takes is for you to insert the following code in your functions.php file. function excludecatfeed($query) { if(is_feed()) { $query->set(‘cat’,'-1′); [...]

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An Alternative Way To Unburying Old Posts In WordPress Using PHP

As a blogger, you want your older posts to remain relevant to your new readers by making them visible on your site’s main page. And though there are various ways to achieve this (e.g. plugins, archive pages), Karol K. came up with his own unique and clever method by using PHP. With his method, you’ll [...]

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Deactivate WordPress Plugin Without Logging Into WP Admin

Some of you might have been in a situation wherein you’d want to log in to the WP Admin page but couldn’t because of a plugin you just happened to install or update. Well, Peter (I didn’t get to catch his last name) just created and shared a very easy-to-follow video tutorial wherein he shows [...]

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Display A Pinterest RSS Widget In WordPress

Share your Pinterest activities to your WordPress blog readers the easy way with the Unofficial Pinterest RSS widget! This plugin places an RSS widget on your sidebar, displaying images, captions, and links from your latest Pinterest activity both in WordPress AND Pinterest. Click on the image for more info on the widget. Customization features include [...]

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Build A WordPress Network Navigation Menu

WordPress 3.0 has allowed users to host multiple independent websites with just one feature called Multisite. It also lets you share settings, content, and code between websites within your network. Kevin Leary has shared some of the hacks he did to perform the aforementioned abilities in one of his articles; one of them involves building [...]

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