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Here you'll find useful tips and tutorials to help solve common problems and build a better WordPress site.

How To Enable Shortlinks In WordPress

By default, the Get Shortlinks button next to your permalink URL on the Edit Post/Page screen is hidden. You can enable it by adding this

This PHP code enables you to add a CSS class to any WordPress or Genesis widget by way of your child themes functions file. This way, your

This code enables you to select which single pages you want displayed on the front page of your WordPress site. It excludes all posts and

Speed up your local installation by disabling the connection to wordpress.org's server. [code] add_filter( 'pre_http_request',

This code loads the template file named featured.php from the child themes root directory. You can use the code in your child themes

A premium user asked how to remove links from comments which is the reason for publishing this code. Add the following PHP code to your

The code in this tutorial enables you to do 2 things : You can control the length of the excerpt Add a custom read more link to

If you want to exclude older posts from your search results, you can using pre_get_posts. The following code uses the date_query from

This code, once added to your child themes functions file, adds rel="nofollow" to all the tag cloud links generated by the tac cloud widget

This code enables you to modify the default functionality for the WordPress tag cloud widget. You'll find the tag cloud widget by going to

The code in this tutorial enables you to upload or select from your media library, a different (2nd) featured image which is used when you

This code enables you to add a 2nd editor to any page template or any/all edit screens in WordPress. All you need to do is add code to print

Before you install font awesome, consider using dashicons which are already included in WordPress so you only need to load

There's at least 5 ways to redirect 1 page to another, all tested. 1. The easiest method if you're using a theme like Genesis, is to use

This code enables you to display Adsense or any type of advertising content after the first paragraph of text on single posts and single

This tutorial provides the step by step instructions for moving a sub site from Multisite ( MS ) network to its own domain on its own

This code enables you to use a custom image in replace of a Gravatar hosted image for any author in any WordPress theme. You can add the

This code enables you to set the posts per page limit for any tag archive page. This way you can over ride the WordPress > Reading settings

This tutorial provides 2 slightly different code snippets which enable you to open the post tag archive links in a new window. You can open

This tutorial provides 2 different code snippets which enable you to remove the link for the post_tags while keeping the tagged