Fixing the Unresponsive Script Problem in WordPress 2.5+
Yesterday in my post about moving your blog to a new domain, I mentioned that there is a problem that presents itself when posts are imported into WordPress 2.5 or later. A quick search determined...
View ArticleTips for Speeding Up Your WordPress Installation
Find your WordPress blog is loading slow? Do you ever get a “MySQL server has gone away” message? Maybe your WordPress Admin Panel is running slow? Even if none of those apply to you, the higher...
View ArticleBuilding a Multi-Author Blog with WordPress
Because WPHacks.com is a multi-author blog, it seems like at least once every week I get an email from our readers asking for more information about how to set up a multi-author blog. How do you set...
View ArticleHow To: Building a Google Custom Search Engine (GCSE) into Your WordPress Blog
Over the holiday weekend I decided to spend some time cleaning up a few of my websites and while doing this, I ended up installing Google’s Custom Search Engine on a couple of my WordPress blogs (as of...
View ArticleHow to: Upgrade your WordPress Blog in a Minute via SSH
Having to upgrade your WordPress install every time a new version is released is necessary, but also very boring. If you have a SSH access to your server, here’s a very quick way to upgrade your...
View ArticleHow to: Using Thumbnails in your Sidebar “Recent Post” Listing
On the WP Recipes forum, a guy just asked me how I managed to insert thumbnails on the recent post widget located on the sidebar of my blog Cats Who Code. That’s a lot simpler than it seems. If you’d...
View Article30+ WordPress Video Tutorials
Are you a visual learner (a person who learn better through viewing rather than reading)? One of the challenges when writing WordPress hacks is trying to take something you know how to do and explain...
View ArticleHow To: Use WordPress Conditional Tags to Hack Your Theme
By using simple conditional tags – it’s pretty easy to add some very basic hacks to your WordPress theme to have more control over what’s displayed when. Here are some things you could do with a...
View ArticleHow To: Hack WordPress Theme Template Pages
The key to being able to display exactly what you want in WordPress is understanding WordPress theme template pages. These are the theme files that display pages, not the ones that perform functions...
View ArticleCRON Jobs Give WordPress Users Peace of Mind
If you’ve never had a website go missing, then you’re very lucky. Your host can have a network error or hardware failure that loses your site’s files. A malicious hacker can penetrate your FTP server...
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Top 5 WordPress Navigation Menu Tutorials
Navigation menu is a really important part of a website, both visually and functionally. Though, I noticed that most blogs use a really simple navigation menu. A simple menu can be good sometimes, but...
View ArticleParsing and Hacking External RSS Feeds in WordPress
It’s a little known fact that WordPress contains it’s own RSS parser, and you can use it to your advantage to make custom dynamic pages! This is a tutorial on how to take an ordinary RSS feed, parse it...
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How to: Display your WordPress Tags in a Drop-Down Menu
Tags are useful to any blog: As you know it, they allow the user to display a list of posts related to a subject. Most of the time, tags are displayed with in a tag cloud. If you have 20 different...
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How to Move from WordPress.com to WordPress.org (Step by Step)
Have you decided to make the move from WordPress.com to WordPress.org, but don’t know where to start? Many times after using the hosted WordPress.com platform, beginners realize the limitations that...
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How to Add Infinite Scroll to WordPress (Step by Step)
Are you in need of a surefire way to keep users on your WordPress website for longer? If so, you might want to think about how to add infinite scroll to WordPress. Infinite scroll, or endless scroll,...
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How to Remove the “Proudly Powered by WordPress” Footer Link
You’re building a brand on your website, and the “proudly powered by WordPress” footer link is cramping your style. How do you remove the powered by WordPress footer? Is it legal to remove that...
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How to Add a WordPress Author Box to Your Blog Posts
So you’re interested in adding an author box to your WordPress blog? Well, you’ve come to the right place. An author box is a section of your blog home page that displays some information about you,...
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How to Set Up an Email Address for Your Website Domain Name
Creating a new website can be overwhelming for some people. This is especially true when creating a website as a beginner. Oftentimes people fail to realize how much actually goes into launching a...
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How to Install a WordPress Plugin (4 Different Ways)
Installing a WordPress plugin is one of the most basic functions you can perform on a newly created WordPress website. It’s also one of the most important things to learn. In this post, we’re going to...
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How to Install a WordPress Theme (4 Methods)
Choosing a WordPress theme, particularly a premium one, is one of the first things you’ll do on a new WordPress site. This means learning how to install a WordPress theme is imperative to your site’s...
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