Wordpress Snippets

WordPress comes with a number of default widgets which allow blog owners to easily add some basic features to their website and one of them is Recent Posts widget. This particular widget, as the name suggests, displays a number of most recent blog posts in WordPress widgetized sidebar. It’s very easy to use, simply drag…

On a project, I had a request from client who wants WordPress users to be notified by email when they update information in their user profile. I think its fair because most of the websites sends an automatic email notification when a user updates his profile and it’s good for security reasons too. But the…

You might have noticed this on some websites that they highlight first paragraph of the article slightly different than the rest of the content. Some website use larger font size for first paragraph, some make it bolder than the subsequent paragraphs and some change the color style of the text. It looks nice and cool,…

Comment system is an integral part of WordPress and that’s why we are always looking for ways to customize WordPress comments. In earlier articles, we have already seen how to use circular shaped avatars, change reply link text in threaded comments, highlight post author comments and how to automatically link twitter username in comments. In…

By default WordPress keep users logged in for maximum of 48 hours before logging them out or if they chose to close the browser before. If you click on “Remember Me” checkbox on the login page of your website, WordPress will keep you logged in for 14 days before logout and require you to re-authenticate…

Adding the html attribute rel=”nofollow” to a link effectively stops Google and some other search engines to follow the link and prevent our website from passing page rank or recommendation to them. So adding the nofollow attribute to certain hyperlinks is good for SEO. Specially affiliate links, marketing link, paid links, links within blogrolls and…

Dribbble is a community of web designers & graphic designers share small screenshots (shots) showcasing their work on current projects. It’s a well known source for design inspiration. If you visit dribbble regularly then you might have noticed the unique navigation system dribbble use to browse through shots. dribbble use two small image thumbnails each…

To strengthen security of your WordPress website, creating and using a strong complex password for your admin account is very critical. But there is one thing I hate about strong and complex passwords, they are easily forgettable. That’s the only risk involved in using complex passwords on your website. So in this article I will…

When readers comment on your blog, WordPress uses the Gravatar platform to display a picture of the commenter next to his or her comment. If a commenter doesn’t have a Gravatar, or their email address isn’t associated with one, then WordPress displays the Mystery Man Gravatar as the default avatar in comments. WordPress also offers…

By default, WordPress cache feed or rather the cached feed has a lifetime of 43200 seconds, equivalent to 12 hours. There isn’t an option in WordPress admin panel to purge the cached feed and force WordPress to refresh feed manually. On a specific project you might need WordPress RSS widget to update faster than every…