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We already shared how to add excerpt support for pages and change excerpt length for different categories. In this article we will discuss, how to change default value of post excerpt length in WordPress without using a plugin. The default WordPress excerpt limits your post to 55 words but sometimes 55 words aren’t enough to…

Google Feedburner is a great tool for managing your feeds and I am sure many of you have already been using it. Not only does it make it easier for people to subscribe to our outbound communication channels, Feedburner also gives us the analytical tools to dig into the data. Now if you have setup…

In previous article we show you how to clean WordPress admin dashboard by removing WordPress dashboard widgets. In this article, we will discuss how we can remove submenu items from the WordPress admin. Sometimes you might need to remove posts, pages, plugins or other submenus items from the WordPress dashboard. For example, if you are…

When you upload an image to WordPress, it automatically crops uploaded image to a number of extra sizes. By default, WordPress generates three different sizes Thumbnail, Medium Size and Large Size. You can take benefit of these different size auto generated images by using them on different sections of your website. For example you can…

In Previous articles, we have seen how to change the WordPress logo on login page and also how to remember me checkbox checked by default. In this article we will discuss how we can change title attribute of WordPress logo on login page. It’s really very easy to change title attribute of WordPress logo on…

Have you ever wanted to prevent your visitors from accessing wp-admin or WordPress dashboard? There is a couple of reasons why you would want to disable access to wp-admin folder or disable dashboard access in general for regular users. Some websites allow commenting only for registered users but after the user is signed on he…

In previous articles we have shown you how to display most commented blog posts and today we will discuss about displaying recent comments in WordPress. WordPress comes with a recent comments widget out of the box. Although it’s very handy, but on the other hand does not give you much freedom in terms of customizing…

Favicons, short for favorite icons, are a small but significant part of branding a website. They are used to display a 16×16 or 32×32 pixel image before the page title in your browser window. Favicons are also used for bookmarks in browsers and touchscreen devices. Favicons not only make your blog look more professional, but…

In version 3.7, WordPress introduced automatic background WordPress updates. We recently posted about disabling automatic updates in WordPress for security reasons but if you really like the idea of automatic background updates then how to enable automatic updates for major WordPress releases. When WordPress updates its core, it sends an email notification to the website…

The WordPress Excerpt is an optional summary or description of a post; in short, a post summary. One of the wonderful thing about Excerpt is that it replaces the full content in RSS feeds when the option to display summaries is selected in reading settings. Usually bloggers use excerpts on post stream and archive pages…