Wordpress Snippets

By default, WordPress uses the “From Email” as “[email protected]” and “From Name” as “WordPress” when it sends out notifications to users. In our case, the emails come from [email protected] This is meaningless and quite annoying to be honest because WordPress does not offer any way to change this email settings from admin panel and modifying…

Many of you may have noticed the browser upgrade warning message on your WordPress admin panel dashboard. WordPress shows this warning message in admin panel if it detects you are using an old/outdated browser. Although it’s highly recommended to use latest browser on your system but sometime you don’t have the luxury of upgrading your…

Sometimes you have a category in your WordPress blog which you want to exclude category posts from appearing in blog’s homepage and also want to hide posts belong to this category from your main RSS feed. WordPress has a very simple solution for our little problem. WordPress provides a hook pre_get_posts that called just after…

When developing a WordPress theme or a plugin, you may have come across times when you may wish to get category slug in certain pages. May be you are modifying the WordPress category archives or you may have some other reason for wanting to retrieve category slug, in this article we will show you a…

You might have noticed on many websites that they highlight their author’s comment by making it a different background color and style. Highlighting post author comments is useful, if you receive a large number of comments on your website and you want your visitors to easily identify post author’s responses in the comment list. This…

If you are new to WordPress then you might be used to visiting the help tab in the top right corner of the WordPress admin panel. WordPress has added a help tab which reveals a series of helpful topics related to the current page. For example, on the Dashboard, the tab offers an overview of…

I am sure you must have noticed a ‘Fatal Error : Memory Size Exhausted’ error when you install a lot of plugins, upgrade to the latest WordPress version or even sometime you’ll find an error in your Dashboard widget which prevents them from loading completely. It’s a very common memory size error in WordPress and…

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…