Category: WordPress tweaks

Hiding certain categories in WordPress navigation

[ No Comments ] Posted on November 30, 2009 under WordPress tweaks

The category list is a useful navigation that normallly comes with a WordPress theme and can usually be found at the sidebar. For a variety of reasons, you might want to prevent some categories from showing in this list while they remain accessible through the dashboard or by manually typing the URL.

WordPress category ID

[ No Comments ] Posted on November 29, 2009 under Definition, WordPress tweaks

The category ID is a unique number assigned by WordPress to each category. Knowing the ID of a category can be useful in certain WordPress tweaks that involves indicating specific category or categories.

Policy-friendly way of implementing ad units in WordPress theme

[ No Comments ] Posted on October 14, 2009 under WordPress tweaks

Insert Chitika and Adsense ad units in your WordPress-powered website without avoiding the policy that forbids putting ad units in non-content based pages.

Inserting an ad between paragraphs in a WordPress post

[ 3 Comments ] Posted on October 7, 2009 under WordPress tweaks

Insert an advertisement between any two paragraphs of your posts. WordPress will automatically insert the ad after the first paragraph, or second or third depending on your desired configuration.

Auto generated robots.txt file in WordPress

[ No Comments ] Posted on October 2, 2009 under WordPress tweaks

I just noticed that WordPress automatically generates robots.txt. Here are some of my observations. Some of its functions require further studies.

Showing the date and time you last updated your WordPress post

[ No Comments ] Posted on September 25, 2009 under WordPress tweaks

The default configuration of most WordPress themes is to show the publish date and time. Should in case you want to show the date and time you last updated your post, all you need to do is to insert a small piece of PHP code.

How to change your WordPress login username

[ No Comments ] Posted on September 21, 2009 under Server Configuration, WordPress tweaks

Your dashboard said you cannot change your WordPress administrator username. Actually, you can, but you will not be using your dashboard. You will use the phpMyAdmin.

Excluding static pages and some posts from WordPress search results

[ No Comments ] Posted on September 21, 2009 under WordPress tweaks

The proper way of combining the codes discussed in two previous posts “Preventing certain posts from appearing in WordPress search results” and “Excluding static pages from WordPress search using functions.php”.

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