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I was working on a WordPress theme for a client and he requested me to add couple of social sharing buttons on his website. So I started browsing through the social sharing plugins for WordPress and found that most were either too complicated or bloated for the simple feature my client needed. I didn’t want…

By OutsourcedContent — on September 12, 2017 boolval() is a PHP function that was introduced in PHP 5.5. If you try to use it on a server that runs PHP 5.4 and lower, you will get an error like this: Fatal error: Call to undefined function boolval() in /path/to/file/file.php on line 12 To fix this…

https://millionclues.com/wordpress-tips/making-classes-php-7-compatible/

Without any doubts, the Contact Form 7 is one of the best WordPress plugin for creating and adding contact forms to your website. The plugin is very easy to set up and use. The only issue with this plugin is that it includes required JavaScript and CSS file on every page regardless of the page…

By OutsourcedContent — on September 29, 2017 This tutorial will help you use a WordPress menu with the Navbar component of Bootstrap 3 and Bootstrap 4. Please refer this guide for how to do it directly with Bootstrap. Here is the code to use WordPress navigational menu as the Navbar component. <nav class=”navbar navbar-expand-lg navbar-light…

By OutsourcedContent — on September 29, 2017 Use this code snippet to display the first category of a WordPress post. <?php $smello = (array) get_the_category($post_ID])[0]; echo $smello[‘cat_name’]; ?> where $post_ID is the ID of the post whose category is required. Change [0] to [1] to get the second category. Not all posts will…

By default WordPress adds many useful classes to body and posts, to help theme developers to style their sites effectively with only CSS and without needing to edit theme files unnecessarily. For example, WordPress adds the category name when you’re viewing an archive page so you can style archive pages differently for each category. But…

By OutsourcedContent — on October 5, 2017 Add this to the active theme’s functions.php. /** * Remove Website From Comments Form * * @since 1.0 * @refer https://millionclues.com/wordpress-tips/remove-websiteurl-from-wordpress-comment-form/ */ function mc_disable_comment_url ($fields) {   unset($fields[‘url’]);   return $fields; } add_filter(‘comment_form_default_fields’,’mc_disable_comment_url’);

By OutsourcedContent — on October 6, 2017 Add this in functions.php replacing the font of course. /** * Adding Goolge Fonts To WordPress – The Right Way * * @refer  https://wp-mix.com/right-way-include-google-fonts-wordpress/ */ function right_way_to_include_google_fonts() {   if (!is_admin()) {     wp_register_style(‘google’, ‘https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=PT+Sans:400,400italic,700’, array(), null, ‘all’);     wp_enqueue_style(‘google’);   } } add_action(‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘right_way_to_include_google_fonts’);

Last week, we have posted about how to add meta description tag to your WordPress website without using any plugins and in this article, we will be showing you a way to add meta keywords tag to head section of website. First of all before proceeding any further, I would again recommend you to use…