Add Jetpack Sharing Buttons Above Post Content

Add Jetpack Sharing Buttons Above Post Content

If you are self hosting WordPress on your server then you are missing out tons of features available specifically to wordpress.com users. To narrow this gap down, WordPress team has developed Jetpack plugin for self hosted blogs so they can also take benefits of these features without hosting their website on wordpress.com’s restrictive environment. Since…

Change Reply Link Text on Threaded Comments

Change Reply Link Text on Threaded Comments

There are many comment services available for WordPress like Disqus, Intense Debate, Facebook Comments, Google+ Comments and many more. But most of the WordPress themes still utilize the standard WordPress comments system. Because it’s very easy to use, nothing to set up and works flawless out of the box. WordPress introduced a simple tag in…

Use Custom Permalink Structure for Pages in WordPress

Use Custom Permalink Structure for Pages in WordPress

Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual blog posts, pages as well as categories, tags and other lists of blog postings. By default, WordPress uses post ID query string as permalink structure rule but it’s not very user-friendly, and it is also not Search Engine Friendly. It is better to refer a visitor to…

Add First and Last Class to Navigation Menu Items

Add First and Last Class to Navigation Menu Items

In version 3.0 WordPress presented us with the new Menus functionality, it completely changed the way we use navigation menus in WordPress. Now we can easily manage our navigation menus and include pages, custom links and categories without hacking page listing functions or creating our own custom function. We can simply drag and drop menu…

Get The Previous And Next Post Link URLs

Get The Previous And Next Post Link URLs

WordPress provides several navigational template tags to make it easy for developer to create previous and next post link navigation for browsing through WordPress blog. There are basically two different types of template tags used for chronological post navigation, posts_nav_link() and previous_post_link() & next_post_link(). But there is a small problem with these template tags, that…

Disable Storing IP Address in Wordpress Comments

Disable Storing IP Address in Wordpress Comments

While posting a comment, WordPress automatically stores commenter’s IP address along with other information in MySQL database. Storing IP address is useful when you want to identify comment author for any unlawful/illegal content or a comment spammers to prevent them for posting anymore spam comments. Although this is a useful feature but in some countries,…