In this article we will show you how to create a back to top button or link on your WordPress website. Back to top button can be useful to visitors reading long articles or browsing large pages. After reading a long article, scrolling browser window back to top can be a little frustrating and not…
By OutsourcedContent — on April 8, 2012 Since ver. 2.3 you could create custom Taxonomies and custom Post Types came in since ver. 3.0. In simple terms, Taxonomies are classifications and Post Types are well, they are Post Types. For e.g. Pages and Posts are two default post types (there are 5 default post types)…
We are not talking about a pop-up or setting a page as the homepage of your WordPress site here. A real solid page that is shown to visitors when they enter your site from another site, or search engine (which again is another site) or by directly typing in your address. Have you ever seen…
First of all, I’d highly recommend using a dedicated SEO plugin like WordPress SEO or All in One SEO Pack to optimize your website for search engines because they are experts in this field and they really know what they are doing. Also it will be highly effective to use latest SEO techniques from expert…
By OutsourcedContent — on April 16, 2012 WordPress has obviously grown from a personal blogging tool to a collaborative blogging environment with multiple authors and multiple blogs in a network with the WordPress multisite. This sometimes call for styling not only your front end for your visitors, but also the backend of your WordPress admin….
Without any doubts, featured post thumbnails are one of the best features of WordPress. That’s why we are always trying to customize them and use them in unique ways on WordPress websites. For example, in previous articles we posted about how to add featured post thumbnails into blog RSS feeds, create an intuitive image based…
I do not use that many images in my posts, but when I do, I do it right. By that I mean, I make sure the image is cropped and optimized for the web (I use Kraken.io) and I rename the image to mean something rather than it saying IMG_0507.img. While naming stuff, I like…
By OutsourcedContent — on August 27, 2017 <?php $args = array( ‘posts_per_page’ => ‘3’, ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’, ); $recent_posts = wp_get_recent_posts( $args ); // Loop each post foreach( $recent_posts as $recent ) { echo get_the_title($recent[“ID”]); echo $recent[“post_content”]; } wp_reset_query(); ?> Refer the WP_Query class reference for a complete list of arguments. Another Approach <?php …
You might have seen, many websites and blogs displays top 10 authors in sidebar of their website, to give proper recognition to contributing authors for their work. And you might be wondering how to add such neat feature on your blog too. Well, to be honest it’s not that difficult to list top 10 authors…
By OutsourcedContent — on August 27, 2017 <?php echo apply_filters( ‘the_content’, wp_trim_words( strip_tags( get_post_field(‘post_content’, $recent[“ID”]) ), 55 ) ); ?> where$recent[“ID”]is of the ID of the post. If you are already querying the post and already have a WP_Post object, you can simply use this: <?php echo apply_filters( ‘the_content’, wp_trim_words( strip_tags( $recent[“post_content”] ), 55 )…
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