In version 3.0 WordPress presented us with the new Menus functionality, it completely changed the way we use navigation menus in WordPress. Now we can easily manage our navigation menus and include pages, custom links and categories without hacking page listing functions or creating our own custom function. We can simply drag and drop menu…
Many of you may have noticed a new trend of circular shape avatars (profile images) in author bio as well as in comments section. You may also be wondering how it’s done or do I need to edit them in Photoshop to make it circular. Editing your avatar in image editing software will only make…
WordPress provides several navigational template tags to make it easy for developer to create previous and next post link navigation for browsing through WordPress blog. There are basically two different types of template tags used for chronological post navigation, posts_nav_link() and previous_post_link() & next_post_link(). But there is a small problem with these template tags, that…
WordPress introduced Post Formats with version 3.1. A Post Format is a piece of meta information that can be used by a theme to customize its presentation of a post. By default WordPress comes with number of standard post formats but themes are not required to support every format on the list. Support for a…
While posting a comment, WordPress automatically stores commenter’s IP address along with other information in MySQL database. Storing IP address is useful when you want to identify comment author for any unlawful/illegal content or a comment spammers to prevent them for posting anymore spam comments. Although this is a useful feature but in some countries,…
WordPress plugins and themes are usually loaded and executed along with the rest of WordPress. However, since each plugin and theme is physically located on your server in wp-config folder, it is also possible for someone to bypass the normal load order and execute the PHP files directly. They just need to type the right…
WordPress comes with a number of default widgets which allow blog owners to easily add some basic features to their website and one of them is Recent Posts widget. This particular widget, as the name suggests, displays a number of most recent blog posts in WordPress widgetized sidebar. It’s very easy to use, simply drag…
On a project, I had a request from client who wants WordPress users to be notified by email when they update information in their user profile. I think its fair because most of the websites sends an automatic email notification when a user updates his profile and it’s good for security reasons too. But the…
You might have noticed this on some websites that they highlight first paragraph of the article slightly different than the rest of the content. Some website use larger font size for first paragraph, some make it bolder than the subsequent paragraphs and some change the color style of the text. It looks nice and cool,…
Comment system is an integral part of WordPress and that’s why we are always looking for ways to customize WordPress comments. In earlier articles, we have already seen how to use circular shaped avatars, change reply link text in threaded comments, highlight post author comments and how to automatically link twitter username in comments. In…