Wordpress Snippets

If you are doing client work on a WordPress theme then it’s nice to put your brand in as many places as you can without affecting the design of the website. The WordPress dashboard footer is an ideal place to put your credential link. Copy the following snippet in your functions.php file to change WordPress…

By default WordPress allow authors to display some information about themselves, such as a website URL, email address, a short bio and their IM contacts, but it is missing important social media networks like Facebook, Twitter, linkedin and Google+. It’s good option to display social media profile page along with author bio because your readers…

Sometimes on a specific project, you have requirement to also display last modified date of pages and posts along with published date. So here is a code snippet to display both in your WordPress. Posted on <?php the_time( ‘F jS, Y’ ); ?> <?php // display last modified date $modified_time = get_the_time( ‘U’ ); $new_modified_time…

WordPress provides their own logo on user registration and login pages but sometimes it is required to replace that with your/client logo especially for branding purpose. You can easily change the default WordPress logo on the Login page with the help of admin_head WordPress action. Here is a simple code snippet that will allow you…

Comment spammers are getting smarter and using latest techniques to fool anti-spam methods. It really does not matter which anti-spam plugins you use on WordPress, you must have noticed that these spam comments are bypassing your full proof system. Every now and then, you will receive bunch of spam comments on your website. If you…

WordPress has a very useful feature which will automatically save your current draft every 30 seconds, as you type and you will not even notice. You can change the time interval settings on how often WordPress auto saves by adding a setting in the wp-config.php file. Let’s say you want to autosave drafts every 10…

Although its personal preference whether you prefer trailing slash at the end of your website URLs or not. But if same webpage content on your website is accessible with two different URLs, one with trailing slash and other without it, then search engines consider it as duplicate content and therefore penalize your website domain in…

When you are developing a site, you have to refresh page lot of times and you start to get a pretty good feel for what your browser is going to pick up on a single refresh, and what it won’t. For example, I find that if I overwrite an image file on the server, it…

Sometimes you want to show different content within WordPress based on whether a WordPress user is logged in or not. WordPress provides a simple way to perform this check with is_user_logged_in tag. It returns boolean true or false value and with the help of this tag, we can create unique messages for members, add images…

If you use WordPress with Subversion (svn) then you will probably notice .svn (metadata) folders on your server. These folders are used by the Subversion client to keep track of changes and determine what files need to be updated when getting the latest versions. They also contain information about what SVN server you are using…