Prior to WordPress 3.6, we had to run a query to retrieve all media attachments to a specific post. We had to do something like this. // show all WordPress post attachments $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘attachment’, ‘posts_per_page’ => -1, ‘post_status’ => ‘any’, ‘post_parent’ => $post->ID ); $attachments = get_posts( $args ); if (…
WordPress does not allow featured post thumbnails in feeds even if you enable the post thumbnails support. But we have a solution for that. Here is how you can add post thumbnails to your WordPress RSS feeds with a simple function. Just copy and paste this code snippet in your theme functions.php file and your…
Sometime you want to reward your registered user of your website with a special gift available only to them or maybe you have a important announcement/update for them or you simply want to send a message only to them. To accomplish that, this code snippet below creates a new shortcode with which to wrap content…
It is generally a bad idea to post your email address in plain text format on your website. It will most likely to get picked up by a spam bot and once it is in the hands of a spammer, your inbox will be filled with spam in no time. WordPress offers a way to…
Although it’s not really a huge deal but some people might want to replace the default welcome message “Howdy, admin” in the WordPress admin bar. To replace “Howdy, admin” in WordPress admin bar, you can use this code snippet below. Using this snippet now, your welcome message will read “Welcome! admin” instead of default “Howdy,…
By default the remember me checkbox on WordPress login page is always unchecked and you have to select it every time you visit login page of your website. To be honest, it’s really annoying and frustrating. Well, at least for me. Although, it’s a small thing, but it makes the login form more usable and…
Have you ever wanted a specific directory in your website to be accessible only by a selected number of people. Protecting files on your website from unauthorized users is very important and actually fairly easy. Although, there are numerous methods to password protect directory on a website but we will accomplish this with the help…
On successful registration of a user, WordPress by default shows “Registration Complete. Please check your e-mail.” message. But on a specific project/website you may want your newly registered user to display a custom registration message or you may want to redirect to custom page. In my opinion, it’s a better idea to redirect users to…
WordPress has built in compression for JPG images. Whenever you upload an JPG/JPEG image to WordPress media library, WordPress will automatically compress your images to 90% of the original quality, this is intended to help your pages load faster and keep file sizes smaller. But sometime it’s essential to have high quality images on your…
Useful websites that might come in handy someday Here’s a list of useful websites that you probably didn’t know and might come in handy someday. temp-mail.org ― create temporary disposable email addresses. You can also try 10minutemail.com. 12ft.io ― bypasses paywalls and removes ads from web pages. remove.bg ― remove background from images. You can also try erase.bg. haveibeenpwned.com ― check…