One great thing about WordPress is its customizability. So today I’ll be featuring a nifty WordPress trick by Jeff Star of DigWP, which teaches you how to add a shortcut-link to the WordPress toolbar. This one involves a bit of coding. In his tutorial, Star adds a link to an external page, which is his [...]
There are many ways to customize your WordPress site, and one example of this is to hide the Page or Post title so the home page doesn’t display a stream of posts (which is basically a common thing among themes) because it might get in the way of your website’s desired look. So how do [...]
A trackback or a pingback is simply a type of notification that lets you know if and when someone has created a link to your site on their page. And it’s a good sign that your site will be taking in more traffic because of the added exposure. Here’s a nice little trick that you [...]
Instagram has long been quite a very popular app among smartphone users way even before Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg decided to buy it. Fact is, it probably even gained more fame and popularity since it was bought. Chances are, there’s a lot of bloggers out there right now who are thinking about synching or integrating [...]
We all know that you can embed YouTube videos in our post, but you can also do the same thing to your WordPress blog’s sidebar! Just watch this nice video tutorial by YouTube user competenowwebtips. The video will teach you how to embed a video into your WordPress sidebar and how to automatically display the [...]
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 [...]
By default, WordPress uses a ‘Recent Posts’ widget that lets you show your recent posts in your current WordPress theme. But what do you do when you want to show the most recent posts from only one particular category? There are two ways to accomplish this: one is through the use of a plugin, and [...]
Even when most of the information we gather and transmit now comes in digital form, it’s still a good idea to provide your blog readers an option to print out your blog posts. Good thing there’s this nifty WordPress plugin called WP-Print that will let your readers print your articles by placing a nice ‘Print [...]
What is a QR Code? A QR (Quick Response) Code is basically similar to a barcode except you don’t need a special laser scanner to be able to read it. Most importantly, it can carry more information. Why would your site need a QR Code? Over the past several months, there has been a growing [...]
Today’s featured WordPress tutorial is a hack made by Dan Gayle, and it enables you to display any RSS feed on your blog. It may have been around for quite a while but it is still as useful now as it was back then. There are a whole lot of tutorials out there that teach [...]
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