Here’s another short and quick little WordPress hack for ya, it comes from Smashing Magazine and t it lets you control how often your RSS widget should refresh. As with most WordPress hacks, all it takes is adding a snippet of code in your functions.php file. Here’s the code that you have to copy and [...]
Here’s a quick and short tutorial shared by Damien Oh from WPBDailyBits that shows you how you can change the font in WordPress’ HTML editor. Follow the very brief instructions below to find out how. Open your theme’s functions.php file. Copy/paste the following code below: add_action( ‘admin_head-post.php’, ‘wpdb_fix_html_editor_font’ ); add_action( ‘admin_head-post-new.php’, ‘wpdb_fix_html_editor_font’ ); function wpdb_fix_html_editor_font() [...]
Some people would want to execute PHP codes in WordPress’ default text widget but this is not possible since it does not support such a task. There are, however, a number of plugins available that you can use to do this. But thanks to Marvie Pons of TriptripperTips who shared this helpful snippet of code, [...]
In his last July post, Paul Kaiser from WPMU shared three different methods on how you can animate your web content using the free animate.css toolset created by Dan Eden: 1) by adding the CSS element manually, 2) through theme templates, and 3) by using jQuery. Today, I’m going to feature one of those tricks, [...]
Here’s a nice and quick WordPress trick you might want to try out on your site. It’s a hack that will let you get attached images from a post or page and then output them. This is a nice little piece of code in cases where you want to collate certain images and use them [...]
Our featured WordPress tutorial for today may be a long-time classic trick. It comes from renowned CSS guru Chris Coyier of CSS-tricks, and it’s about replacing the ellipsis (…) from the excerpt with a permalink to the post. It is a pretty short snippet and so it’s very easy to implement on your site. All [...]
Although using the Lightbox plugin can be a nice way of giving your readers a great experience in viewing your images in your blog, it can also become a bit tedious adding the rel=”lightbox” attribute to each image that you want to open with it. But thanks to Tyler Longren‘s code snippet, you won’t have [...]
By default, WordPress’ built-in media manager only has filter support for three types of media: image, audio, and video. But what about other file types like PDF? Well, thanks to a nifty trick from WP Tuts, it won’t have to be limited to just three anymore. I’m certain that this trick will be very helpful [...]
jQuery Mobile lets you create web apps like a WordPress theme. Jean-Baptiste Jung displays a useful tutorial on how you can do that. Here are the following steps: 1. Getting the files. With tools like Blank Theme, a WordPress theme without stylings, in use, you can save some time creating a theme from scratch. Simly [...]
There’s this interesting article and tutorial written by Brian Gardner that I thought I’d feature in today’s post. It’s about building a Tumblr-style blog with WordPress. In it he also points out the reason why you might want to try it – or rather, should do it. Since the release of version 3.1, WordPress has [...]
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