Have you ever wanted to get template file being used on a current page? Well, I did, on a project I was working for a client. I wanted to get page template name to filter the post query based on the page template file being used. Although I could have done this by creating few…
By default, WordPress displays all of your blog’s pages in search results along with blog posts. But on a specific project you may want to exclude pages from WordPress search results to make your search more relevant and less crowded. After all, most of the time, your readers want to find interesting posts, not pages…
jQuery is undoubtedly one of the most commonly used JavaScript framework these days. Some of the biggest websites out there use jQuery and there’s no question about why, it’s both easy to use and incredibly powerful. As a matter of fact, WordPress uses jQuery by default out of the box. In this article, we will…
A popular feature for the sidebar of your WordPress blog is to display most popular blog posts. Probably you have seen this on another blog and you might be wondering how it is done. There are many WordPress plugins that can do this but in this article we will show you how to display 5…
As you already know, the HTAccess file is a very powerful tool for manipulating site performance and functionality. It also allows you to control files and folders in the current directory, and all sub-directories. That is why it’s very critical for your website security to protect HTAccess files of your website from any unauthorized access….
Post comments are an important part of any blog, they give your visitors a way to engage with the author of the article. But with the benefit of comments on article there is also a lot of disadvantages especially with WordPress. Comment spam is the main and very common problem with WordPress and every blogger…
By default, WordPress uses the “From Email” as “[email protected]” and “From Name” as “WordPress” when it sends out notifications to users. In our case, the emails come from [email protected] This is meaningless and quite annoying to be honest because WordPress does not offer any way to change this email settings from admin panel and modifying…
Many of you may have noticed the browser upgrade warning message on your WordPress admin panel dashboard. WordPress shows this warning message in admin panel if it detects you are using an old/outdated browser. Although it’s highly recommended to use latest browser on your system but sometime you don’t have the luxury of upgrading your…
Sometimes you have a category in your WordPress blog which you want to exclude category posts from appearing in blog’s homepage and also want to hide posts belong to this category from your main RSS feed. WordPress has a very simple solution for our little problem. WordPress provides a hook pre_get_posts that called just after…
When developing a WordPress theme or a plugin, you may have come across times when you may wish to get category slug in certain pages. May be you are modifying the WordPress category archives or you may have some other reason for wanting to retrieve category slug, in this article we will show you a…