Category Archives: Free Press

Display Category, Tag And Author Descriptions On Appropriate WordPress Archive Pages

In this lesson you will learn how to show category, tag and author descriptions on appropriate archive pages in your WordPress site.

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Show Archive Descriptions is a WordPress plugin that allows you to display description for category on that category’s first i.e. main archive page. The plugin does same for tags and author archive pages too. It also allows you to create custom titles.  Continue reading Display Category, Tag And Author Descriptions On Appropriate WordPress Archive Pages

Show/Hide Certain Post Sections By Date And Time In WordPress

You can show or hide certain post, page or post type sections by specific date and time characteristics in your WordPress site.

Timed Content is a WordPress plugin that allows users to specify whether a portion of a Page or Post should appear or disappear based on given time characteristics via shortcode in WordPress visual editor.  Continue reading Show/Hide Certain Post Sections By Date And Time In WordPress

Set First Name Letter As Profile Picture On BuddyPress/WordPress Sites

Not everyone has a Gravatar account and not every user uploads avatar on your BuddyPress community website.

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In this lesson you will learn how to say good bye to mystery man and automatically use first alphabet of user’s name as profile picture in your BuddyPress powered WordPress site or regular WordPress site.  Continue reading Set First Name Letter As Profile Picture On BuddyPress/WordPress Sites

Tiny Bootstrap Elements Light – Add Bootstrap Elements From WordPress Visual Editor

Tiny Bootstrap Elements Light is the new WordPress plugin that allows you to add Bootstrap elements using TinyMCE buttons from WordPress visual editor present on ADD NEW / EDIT content screens of your WordPress site.

The plugin works for posts, pages and other custom post types. It is compatible with most WordPress themes and allows you to selectively enable Bootstrap TinyMCE buttons on visual editor. It also provides you option to either add default or use custom Bootstrap CSS, including only needed elements.  Continue reading Tiny Bootstrap Elements Light – Add Bootstrap Elements From WordPress Visual Editor

Show Any WordPress Post Content Via Shortcode

In this lesson you will learn about using any post’s content inside any other post, page or custom post type with the help of shortcode in your WordPress site.

Many times bloggers create some intro text about anything and use it multiple times while composing other articles in WordPress.

For instance: If you write articles about WordPress plugins then in that case you must have published a general article about installing plugins in WordPress.

Now every time while writing tutorial on some new WordPress plugin you can use post content of article say “How to install a plugin in WordPress” with inside the content of your new plugin’s tutorial in order to show first basic steps of installing a plugin.  Continue reading Show Any WordPress Post Content Via Shortcode

Limit WordPress Admin Access To One IP Address

Earlier we have discussed about removing dashboard access on WordPress and BuddyPress powered websites and easily disallow either all or selected user roles from accessing your site’s admin area dashboard.

We ave also discussed about hiding admin toolbar and directing users to home whenever they attempt to access admin section of your WordPress site by suffixing /wp-admin after your website’s address.

Now today in this lesson you will learn how to increase the security of your website by only enabling one IP addresss to access admin area dashboard.  Continue reading Limit WordPress Admin Access To One IP Address

Prevent Your Clients From Deactivating Plugins In WordPress

Earlier we have discussed how to prevent your client’s from changing themes on their WordPress sites and keep using the theme you have designed for them.

We have also discussed about disabling plugin and theme installation/update functionality in WordPress and customizing admin area user interface. In this lesson you will learn how to remove deactivate links on plugins list.

Continue reading Prevent Your Clients From Deactivating Plugins In WordPress

Easily Disable Theme Changing In WordPress

Webmasters probably spent lots of time in customizing, creating and adding more specific features to theme for their client’s website and if by mistake your client switches to a new theme, deletes the old one could result in disaster.

So if you are also a website designer using WordPress to create client websites then here is a code snippet to remove “Themes” menu from “Appearances” section in your admin area dashboard.  Continue reading Easily Disable Theme Changing In WordPress

Enable qTranslate X Multilingual Framework For WordPress All In One SEO Pack

qTranslate X is a popular WordPress plugin that allows you to add user-friendly multilingual content management and translation support in your WordPress site. The plugin is an up-to-date fork of qTranslate, it comes packed with many more additional features.

Whereas All in One SEO Pack is another plugin that provides you SEO functions to automatically optimize your WordPress based website for various popular search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo etc.

In this lesson you will see how to use both of these plugins together to optimize your multilingual website for Google and other popular search engines.  Continue reading Enable qTranslate X Multilingual Framework For WordPress All In One SEO Pack

Embed Any Reddit Discussion Inside Your WordPress Post

Sometimes when you or someone else submits your article to Reddit, the discussion goes on and one and the link gets more Reddit comments than comments on main article’s page on your website.

In this lesson you will learn how to easily embed any Reddit discussion in your WordPress site so that your users would be able to join Reddit conversations directly from your WordPress site.  Continue reading Embed Any Reddit Discussion Inside Your WordPress Post

Locate What And Where Shortcodes Are Being Used In WordPress

When moving away from a theme or plugin that utilizes a lot of shortcodes in your WordPress site leaves broken shortcodes inside your content.

So when deactivating a shortcode plugin or switching to a new WordPress theme requires you to make sure none of your posts, pages and other custom post types have no outdated shortcodes to break in process.  Continue reading Locate What And Where Shortcodes Are Being Used In WordPress

Ellipsis (…) To Hide Specified Number Of Characters In WordPress Post Title

Earlier we have discussed about forcing post title characters limit to a defined number. Likewise display title on search engine results page is limited to 70 chars and hence last characters after 70 are automatically trimmed.  Continue reading Ellipsis (…) To Hide Specified Number Of Characters In WordPress Post Title

Easily Prevent Concurrent Logins In Your WordPress Site

Default WordPress installation allows users to login to their account from multiple locations at the same time. For instance: More than one user can login to one WordPress account and make changes. This is sometimes useful but it may compromise the security of your WordPress site.

Earlier we have discussed how a WordPress user can logout from all devices, sessions and locations easily from one place. This can be done from Users -> Your Profile page simply by clicking ‘Log Out of All Other Sessions’ button.

We have also discussed about setting WordPress to automatically logout idle website users by displaying a custom message.

Now today, in this lesson you will learn how you can disable concurrent logins on your WordPress site.  Continue reading Easily Prevent Concurrent Logins In Your WordPress Site

Translate WordPress Themes And Plugins Directly From Your Browser

With Loco Translate, a WordPress plugin you can edit PO files and localizing your WordPress site themes and plugins. It provides you a translation editor and provides you features to create or update language files directly in theme or plugin.  Continue reading Translate WordPress Themes And Plugins Directly From Your Browser

Design Contact Form 7 To Fit Your WordPress Theme

Contact Form 7 is a popular WordPress plugin for generating various types of contact forms in your WordPress site. But the default layout of contact form is plain and very simple, so in this lesson you will learn how to redesign it to match your website theme.  Continue reading Design Contact Form 7 To Fit Your WordPress Theme

Generate And Save Avatars Locally On Your BuddyPress Networking Website

In this lesson you will learn how to create and save avatars locally on your BuddyPress site, get rid from generic WordPress avatars and avoid calls to Gravatar for displaying user avatars.  Continue reading Generate And Save Avatars Locally On Your BuddyPress Networking Website