How To Update WordPress Automatically Without Using FTP

In my previous post I featured a tutorial on how you can upgrade your WordPress version using SSH (Secured Shell) protocol. Well, guess what? I found another great alternative for you to consider in updating your WordPress and its plugins to a newer version. What makes this different from the previous one I posted is [...]

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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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Upgrading WordPress Via SSH

Updating to a newer version of WordPress couldn’t be any simpler for most users! Just log into the dashboard, select the option to update right under ‘Updates’, and in just 10 seconds or so, you’ll be done and ready to start blogging again in no time. However, there are still some cases wherein an automatic [...]

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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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Display Post Views In WP Admin Posts Panel Without Any Plugin

Some of you might be already be familiar with a WordPress plugin called WP-PostViews, a plugin that displays the total number of views a particular post has had. But if you’ve reached over a thousand posts it can be hard for you to keep track of any recent developments, updates, and stats already. Iftekhar Bhuiyan [...]

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How To Add Thumbnails To Recent Posts Without A Plugin

Some of you might be asking, “Why would you not want to use plugins?” Well, one of the reasons for that is because plugins sometimes can be a little temperamental over time as newer versions of WordPress are released, another one would be to avoid excessive use of plugins. But the main purpose of this [...]

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Display Disclaimer Popups In WordPress Using jQuery

I’d like to share with you all this very nice WordPress trick from Rebecca Markowitz that I think some of you might find very useful for your site. It’s a cool hack that lets you create a pop-up window wherein you can put in a disclaimer or notification message for your visitors to read before [...]

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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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How To Remove The Height And Width Attributes In WP Image Uploader

Every time you use WordPress’ image uploader it automatically includes the image’s actual size (height and width) into the <img> tag. While this is all well and good, it can be a bit of a nuisance especially if you’re using a responsive website design because renders your uploaded image un-resizable which kind of defeats the [...]

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