Category: WordPress

Changing WordPress post excerpt length

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

If you leave the excerpt form blank, WordPress will use the first 55 words of your post content as post excerpt. You think 55 words are too long or too short? This is how you can change it.

Thank you page for WordPress comment

[ 2 Comments ] Posted on January 30, 2010 under WordPress tweaks

Say “thank you very much!” to your visitors by redirecting them to a separate thank you page after posting a comment. This is very useful if you intend to use WordPress’ comment form as an order form or as a message form. NOTE: This post is really old but it went a major update so I’m republishing it as new.

Putting external link icon in WordPress

[ No Comments ] Posted on January 30, 2010 under Cascading Stylesheet (CSS), WordPress tweaks

Allow your website visitors to determine whether a link is internal or external by modifying your WordPress theme so that it automatically inserts a small graphic to any external link in your website’s content.

Embedding image slideshow in your WordPress site

[ 2 Comments ] Posted on December 23, 2009 under WordPress plugins

Image slide show is a good eye candy for your website to highlight some things about your company. If your website is powered by WordPress, you can put a simple slide show using the WP-Cycle plugin.

Making all external links open in a new tab or window in WordPress

[ 2 Comments ] Posted on December 15, 2009 under WordPress tweaks

Insert a PHP code in the functions.php of your WordPress theme to make all internal links open in new window or tab and all internal links on the same window without having to manually set the target window in your WordPress visual editor..

Making all internal links www or non-www in WordPress

[ No Comments ] Posted on December 12, 2009 under WordPress tweaks

Make all of your internal links consistently with or without www without having to edit all of them one by one.

Manual search-and-replace in WordPress

[ No Comments ] Posted on December 10, 2009 under Server Configuration, WordPress tweaks

Replace all instances of a certain word, phrase or any string throughout your blog or WordPress-powered website without using any plugin.

Search and replace in WordPress using a plugin

[ No Comments ] Posted on December 7, 2009 under WordPress plugins

Need to change all instances of a word, a phrase or string across your blog or WordPress-powered website? The “Search and Replace” plugin can do just that. Advantage: you can select which database to perform find and replace operation. Disadvantage: sometimes there are strings it can’t change.

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