• Best Practice: Check if Function Exists When Adding in WordPress Theme

  The best part about WordPress is plugins. Theme designers also have a tendency of using WordPress plugins for adding cool features. When working on a custom WordPress theme project for a client, one thing you want to make sure is follow the best practice. Yesterday, we got an inquiry from one of our users whose site was broken. He had a custom design done by someone. The theme worked great until he changed hosts. His single posts would not load…

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• How to Float Your WordPress Admin Menu to Save Time

  One of the things that Zain Balkhi complained about when we were designing our current WPBeginner design was that the WordPress admin menu doesn’t float. Which is why in our current design, we made sure that our menu scrolled with the user. Recently we got an email from Till Kruess notifying us about a plugin that he has created which allows you to float your WordPress admin menu. First thing you need to do is install and activate the Floating…

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• Beginner’s Guide to Preventing Blog Content Scraping in WordPress

  If you write original content day in and day out, you already are aware of the fact that your posts will end up on bunch of SPAM sites within a few days sometimes even few minutes. Some users even noted that the site with stolen content outranked the original post. It is very frustrating as a website owner to see that someone is stealing your content without permission, monetizing it, outranking you in SERPs, and stealing your audience. Content Scraping…

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• How to Put Your WordPress Site in Read Only State for Site Migrations and Maintenance

  Managing a multi-author blog is a hard task on its own. It gets even harder during the maintenance times and site migrations. We have helped migrate numerous multi-author blogs to different hosting account, and the single biggest challenge was to keep everyone from making any new changes. We had to notify everyone multiple times to make sure that everyone got the memo. Well, recently we discovered a way to put WordPress in a Read-Only state which essentially freezes your entire…

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• How to Add Odd/Even Class to Your Post in WordPress Themes

  Often when designing a WordPress theme, designers choose to have different styling for odd/even comments. Recently while working on a design, we decided to have different styling for odd/even posts. To do this, we needed to add an odd/even class to appropriate posts. Sadly, this is not one of the default classes. In this article, we will show you how to add an odd/even class to your posts in WordPress Themes. Simply paste the following code in your theme’s functions.php…

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• How To Show Number of Queries and Page Load Time in WordPress

  One of our users asked how do other sites show number of queries and page load time in the footer. You will often see this in the footer of sites and it may say something like: “64 queries in 1.248 seconds”. In this article, we will show you how to show number of queries and page load time in WordPress. Simply paste the following code anywhere you like in your theme files (such as footer.php). And refresh the page. You…

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• How to Disable Plugin Updates in WordPress and Why You Shouldn’t

  One of our users asked if there was a way to disable plugin updates in WordPress? As we say it in the WordPress community, “there’s a plugin for that”. In this article we will answer the question how to disable plugin updates in WordPress, but we will also discuss why it is not a good idea to disable plugin updates. If you want to disable plugin updates, simply install and activate the plugin Disable WordPress plugin updates. Now lets discuss…

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• How to List Category Posts in a WordPress Post or Page with Shortcode

  Have you ever found a need to list the posts from a specific category on a specific post or a page? In the past, we have used custom page templates and hard coded a solution in. However, recently we have discovered a way that allows you to list category posts in WordPress Posts or Page with a shortcode. First thing you need to do is install and activate the List Category Posts plugin. Once you have activated the plugin, you…

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• How to Add the Theme Editor in WordPress Admin Bar

  In the past we have shown you how to add the shortlink menu, draft posts, and other things to the WordPress admin bar. In this article, we will show you how to add the Theme Editor in WordPress Admin Bar. All you need to do is either open your site-specific plugin or your theme’s functions.php file and paste the following code: That is it. We found this code floating around on the WordCamp Nashville Hashtag. We tried it on WordPress…

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• How to Create Beautiful Coming Soon Pages in WordPress with SeedProd

  One of the very hard lessons we learnt in the past is that every business needs a coming soon page before the launch. Coming Soon page is a crucial component of having a successful website/product launch. Coming soon pages are used to create a hype and capture emails, so when you launch, you have an existing base of users. In the past creating a coming soon page required coding skills, but now with WordPress and SeedProd plugin, things have gotten…

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• WordPress 3.3.2 (Security Update) – Upgrade Now

  We just saw the notice in our dashboard to upgrade WordPress to the newest version 3.3.2. Nacin announced it on the WordPress blog. WordPress 3.3.2 is a security update for all previous versions. Three external libraries included WordPress received security updates including Plupload, SWFUpload, and SWFObject. This release also addresses the Limited privilege escalation issue, cross-site scripting vulnerability when making URLs clickable, and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in redirects after posting comments in older browsers. Five other bugs were also fixed…

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