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Unlock more useful buttons in WP editor

WordPress on basic level has nearly covered every button that one needs for quick customization of the content. But besides what WP offers , there are situations that one may require a few/more detailed style options. Like font size, font family etc. These buttons can be brought up and used in the editor without any external plugins. The multi functional...

Categories Web Development/WordPress

What is WordPress Multisite and where and when to use it?

I was at the first WordCamp in Nepal, WordCamp Nepal 2012 this last weekend and had an awesome time meeting fellow WordPressers and also talked a little on WordPress MultiSite and when and where should one use it and where should it avoid that. Here is my slide from the event. Hope you guys find it interesting.

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Remove menu items from WordPress Dashboard

Clients can sometimes be very hard to handle. There might be certain things that you would not want your client to use on the WP back end. Since you can not ask them not to use it, what would be a better option is if you could hide those unwanted menu items from the Dashboard itself. Here is a snippet...

Categories Web Development/WordPress

Working with User management in WordPress

A user is generally a person who does certain set of work on any system. A typical Blogging platform or CMS will have certain level of users and hence user management is an important aspect, where there are many and different users. WordPress too handles this and takes care of most of the functionality that would be required. WordPress generally keeps user...

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Quick Fix:: wp_nav_menu not working on category.php

Today while working on a site I came across a problem that seemed weird to me. The wp_nav_menu was working fine on all the pages except for my category page. When I took a detailed look, I found that it was caused by conflict of custom post type.  So how did I fix it? Well here is a quick fix. Copy and...

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Convert URLs to Links on WordPress Content

So you have been in a situation where you want all the urls on the content of your post to be a link. Well if you have found yourself in such situation, you can always make use of make_clickable function that is available by default on WordPress. What this basically does is convert all http, https, ftp , ftps, emails...

Categories Miscellaneous/WordPress

7 awesomely sweet WordPress plugins

There are plugins for just about everything you can possibly imagine on WordPress. But just like themes, it can be difficult to sift through the fluff, and find those gems that truly improve your website. But when you do find a WordPress plugin that’s great, you just have to share it with others in the community. And so am I...

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How To Display a Message on Old WordPress Posts

If you post helpful information on your blog chances are some of your early posts are now outdated as technologies have changed over the years. Let’s take a look at how we can add a mix of PHP tags to our WordPress themes to automatically add a small disclaimer or warning message to posts over X years old. The little...

Categories CSS/WordPress