Showing Video instead of Featured Image (Post Format example Tutorial)

I wrote about Post Formats on my last article here. Basically it dealt with what a post format is and how it is different from Post Types and a basic know how of how to use it. In this article, I am going to take it a step further and give you a working example of it. You might have...

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Working with WordPress Post Formats

Ever wondered how to display a slideshow or video instead of Featured Image. Post Formats is the answer. Post Formats are not to be mistaken for Post Types. Post types let you create different post types where you go on to add them with different custom fields, taxonomies and they work as another post type for adding similar contents, while...

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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...

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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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Working with wrap in jQuery, (How to add an element around another element in jQuery)

jQuery is a multi-browser JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML. It was released in January 2006 at BarCamp NYC by John Resig. Used by over 55% of the 10,000 most visited websites, jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library in use today. Here we will discuss 5 quick jQuery examples.   wrap() This function is used to wrap a given element with the newly provided element. Say if...

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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...

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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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