Code Snippets

By default WordPress does not allow excerpt to pages and it’s probably for good reason because normally you will never use it for pages. That’s why WordPress provides no option to add excerpts to pages through the WordPress admin panel but it’s fairly very easy to enable excerpt for pages too, similarly like posts. To…

WordPress have a secret options section that contains all core WordPress settings on one single page. Here’s a quick code snippet to display an “All Options” page to view otherwise hidden data. Just add that code to your theme’s functions.php file and then visit the settings menu in the WordPress admin panel. There you’ll see…

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…