Category: WordPress

Hiding certain posts from the homepage

[ No Comments ] Posted on July 27, 2010 under WordPress tweaks

Create a special category and insert a code in the functions.php of your theme to prevent some posts from appearing in your homepage. Works only if you configured your homepage as list of latest posts and not as static page.

Listing ip addresses of WordPress comment spammers easier and faster

[ No Comments ] Posted on July 16, 2010 under Server Configuration, WordPress tweaks

You’re fed up with lots of spammers. You want to list their IP address to impose an IP ban but there’s too many of them to be listed. Here’s an easier way of listing the IP addresses of spammers even if there are hundreds or thousands of spams in your Dashboard.

Make the WordPress attachment page display full image

[ No Comments ] Posted on June 9, 2010 under WordPress tweaks

By default, WordPress’ attachment page displays the image in medium size, where medium is defined by media settings. Use this tweak if you want the attachment page to display the image with its actual size.

Removing the link of image in WordPress attachment page

[ No Comments ] Posted on June 8, 2010 under WordPress tweaks

The default WordPress configuration is that the image embedded on the attachment page is a link to the image file itself. Do you want to remove the hyperlink and present the image in the attachment page as a regular image?

WordPress: inserting ads between two posts in post list

[ 2 Comments ] Posted on June 5, 2010 under WordPress tweaks

Post lists are WordPress generated pages that contain list of all posts and may either display whole posts or excerpts. These include search results, category pages, and if configured, the home page. Do you want to insert advertisement between two adjacent posts in the post list?

Multiple page menus in WordPress using parent pages

[ No Comments ] Posted on May 22, 2010 under WordPress tweaks

Use the parent-child structure of WordPress static pages to create more than one navigation menu in your WordPress-powered website.

Multiple page menus in WordPress using include argument

[ No Comments ] Posted on April 30, 2010 under WordPress tweaks

Have more than one page navigation menu containing different pages by manually encoding which page appear in each of the menu.

Modifying the bracketed ellipsis [...] at the end of post excerpt

[ No Comments ] Posted on January 31, 2010 under WordPress tweaks

When WordPress used the first few (usually 55) words of the post content as post excerpt, by default it will end with a bracketed ellipsis like this [...]. Do you want to remove it or replace it with some other characters or symbols? Here’s how.

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