Wordpress Snippets

Previously we have talked about displaying related posts and popular posts in WordPress but today, I have very interesting WordPress snippet for you. Recently, one of my client requested me to develop a section for his WordPress blog to feature an article on blog homepage but the catch was, the displayed article should be selected…

Google has been supplying the community with a large collection of web-based fonts for quite a few years. There are several ways Google allow you to use these fonts for free on your website. Google also provides instructions for embedding and using these fonts in your website which works great for static HTML websites, but…

Think of yourself as a Blogger on the move. You are traveling around the world, sometimes you are at Berlin, and then you move to Paris, yet again to New York. How cool it would be to add a note to each post that says where you wrote that from? Or maybe you might want…

In this article we will show you how to create a back to top button or link on your WordPress website. Back to top button can be useful to visitors reading long articles or browsing large pages. After reading a long article, scrolling browser window back to top can be a little frustrating and not…

By OutsourcedContent — on April 8, 2012 Since ver. 2.3 you could create custom Taxonomies and custom Post Types came in since ver. 3.0. In simple terms, Taxonomies are classifications and Post Types are well, they are Post Types. For e.g. Pages and Posts are two default post types (there are 5 default post types)…

We are not talking about a pop-up or setting a page as the homepage of your WordPress site here. A real solid page that is shown to visitors when they enter your site from another site, or search engine (which again is another site) or by directly typing in your address. Have you ever seen…

First of all, I’d highly recommend using a dedicated SEO plugin like WordPress SEO or All in One SEO Pack to optimize your website for search engines because they are experts in this field and they really know what they are doing. Also it will be highly effective to use latest SEO techniques from expert…

By OutsourcedContent — on April 16, 2012 WordPress has obviously grown from a personal blogging tool to a collaborative blogging environment with multiple authors and multiple blogs in a network with the WordPress multisite. This sometimes call for styling not only your front end for your visitors, but also the backend of your WordPress admin….

Without any doubts, featured post thumbnails are one of the best features of WordPress. That’s why we are always trying to customize them and use them in unique ways on WordPress websites. For example, in previous articles we posted about how to add featured post thumbnails into blog RSS feeds, create an intuitive image based…

I do not use that many images in my posts, but when I do, I do it right. By that I mean, I make sure the image is cropped and optimized for the web (I use Kraken.io) and I rename the image to mean something rather than it saying IMG_0507.img. While naming stuff, I like…