Good titles not only brings more organic traffic but are clicked more often by visitors on your WordPress site. Have you ever been strucked in choosing a right title for your blog post? Here is an easy way of to test multiple post titles and discover what gets more page views.
Now a days, almost all WordPress themes provides you a responsive layout as that looks good on all screen sizes but there is one more problem which is generally ignored by most website owners, it is the height of your sidebar.
Many a times website owners edit or hack the plugin to change its default behavior. For instance, you edit the CSS of some widget plugin to match your website theme.
Default WordPress plugin uploader crashes whenever you try uploading plugin zip files of size exceeding maximum PHP memory. For instance, some default PHP installations have 2MB memory and when you try uploading plugin zip bigger than 2MB, the uploader crashes showing some PHP error.
Most of the WordPress sharing plugins uses the same default color for social icons like blue for Facebook sharing button, red for Google Plus and Pinterest, orange for StumbleUpon etc etc.
Even the plugins that allows you to select a custom color doesn’t lets you set it on per icon basis. Here comes the use of a plugin with more powerful color customization hacks.
Saif Sohel has created an awesome social sharing plugin. Unlike to other social sharing plugin this new WordPress addon allows you to use a custom color for each sharing icon.
Yesterday, we have discussed about removing dates from old posts in your WordPress site. Today in this tutorial we will be showing you how you can hide dates on Google SERP (Search Engine Results Page).
You can hide date from old posts and show it on new posts, great trick for blogs with evergreen content. There are various plugins that allows you to hide dates but most date remover plugins work globally on your WordPress installation.
Problem comes when you are not sure about the spammy nature of websites you are linking to. Suppose you are using any image which has been labelled for reuse and you link the image source to the website you’re not entirely sure you trust. In such type of cases it’s always good to make sure the credit link is nofollow.
Facebook, Twitter and there are many other popular websites that provides you separate URLs for mobile and desktop versions. This allows users to decide whether they like browsing the mobile version or accessing full site version on their mobile phones.
By default all plugins go active on all types of devices. There is no default feature of making any plugin to work only on desktop or only on mobile devices.
Toady, David Behrens, a user of SANGKRIT.net emailed us asking how he can keep a plugin work only on desktop operating systems and keep it switched off on smartphones at the same time. He just wanted to keep his jQuery mega menu off on smartphones.
You must have observed various websites displaying a two columned comment form, as that looks more symmetrical on some websites. Now you can easily customize the default WordPress comment form and make it something other than default.
By default, most WordPress themes slides sidebars to bottom on small screen devices like on mobile phones and tablets. But you must have observed various websites automatically remove the sidebars if it’s viewed on a small screen and keep it visible everywhere else.
A single sidebar or footer can easily be divided into multiple columns and multiple widgets can be added there. For example: Suppose you want to display a recent posts widget next to ad text widget in your website’s sidebar.
There are various scroll top button plugins available for WordPress. Scroll to top or to top buttons simply allows you to instantly scroll back to header of the webpage. In this tutorial we will show you how to make it work on responsive WordPress sites.
You can offer your users to rate posts and pages in your WordPress site. WP-PostRatings plugins provides you an easy AJAX rating system with all useful features and management options.
Instead of opening post preview in a new tab everytime, you can add an on request inline preview next to the post editor. Inline Preview, a free WordPress plugin by Christopher Finke simply adds a live preview slide next to post content text area.
Every time any developer creates any new theme or plugin or when you design your client’s website or while checking for new plugins and hacks etc, there is always some need of custom data like posts, pages, comments, users, tags & categories etc (it depends) in order to check the working of any plugin or whatever you are developing.
Most blog commenters comment only for building good backlinks from your website and hence result is you get most of the comments as ‘Nice post’, ‘Great post, ‘Thanks for writing up’, ‘Thank you for the post’ etc.
Default WordPress functionality shows all comments (in admin area) to all registered authors in your website. In this tutorial we will show you how you can restrict comment visibility in admin section so that authors can see only comments posted on their articles.
It is easy to set comment expiration date on per post/post type basis in WordPress. Comment Expirator plugin enables you to close comments, pingbacks and also trackbacks on your posts, pages and custom post types on an individual basis.