Few days back one of our readers asked us how he can hide the admin role from his website’s ‘All Users’ list. You can easily do so, all you need to do is open your theme’s function.php file and add the following hack. The hack simply hides all admins of your website from the eyes of others users. The plugin works out of box, by default Users page is hidden from other users roles but if you are using any plugin for editing user capabilities and provided other users roles the right to add/edit users, see user list etc then also the plugin will be keep admins hidden from the eyes of other users.
Sometimes it happen that you mistakenly click the ‘Publish’ button and your post goes live. This tutorial provides you a simple hack that you can put in your theme’s function.php file and then whenever you will be hitting your “Publish” button, a small dialog box will show up asking you if you’re sure about publishing your post or not. Now you can either click OK or CANCEL. Now no more acidentally published posts.
Whenever any new update (core, themes or plugins) is available, WordPress admin section automatically starts showing its notification. After the release of 3.8 version, some updates are made automatically but if you have disabled automatic updates then it shows the number of available updates available in admin dashboard menus. This tutorial provides you the hack that simply removes these notifications without disturbing the main updates functionality (so that you can update your WordPress installation whenever you like).
Tired of manually adding tags to your blog posts, you can automatically extract and add them from the content to the content. WP FixTag is the new WordPress plugin that automatically add tags to your posts.
Tags can be defined by the site administrator or you can just leave it to extract tags directly from the post content and automatically add them to your post . Yes, the plugin works all automatically whenever you publish a new post or edit & update old posts.
By default WordPress use dash (-) for separting words in permakinks (URL slugs) but you can easily change it to underscores (_). There are two methods. First you can do this by using a plugin or you have to paste some code you your site’s standard plugin or theme’s function.php file.
Disabling WordPress themes updates is a important hack specially for website owners who edits the core of their WordPress Theme, customize its template files, add analytics, hacks etc.
By default WordPress uses 90% quality for all images served in your website, log posts etc. This is done for conserving space and bandwidth. But still if you want you can force your WordPress JPEG image quality to be 100%.
By default Maximum upload file size in WordPress is 32MB but you can very quickly increase it to 100MB in seconds. This tutorial is on new WordPress plugin called PBP Increase upload limit. The plugin is lightweight, takes about 2KB space but increases your file upload size to 100MB.
By default WordPress allows site administrators to edit PHP files of plugins and themes direct from WordPress admin area dashboard. If you are using this feature from backend then make sure you have a strong security plugins installed in your WordPress site because this functionality can create a major security issue. For example: If your admin password is hacked by a bot or something then they can easily add their malware or suspicious scripts in your site’s themes and plugins easily by editing their PHP files.
WordPress automatically saves your post drafts after every sixty seconds, the feature is very useful for all bloggers because it helps you to get your content back in case your web browser crashes, your system hangs or shuts down etc. This tutorial explains you how you can change the default autosave time interval of WordPress from 60 seconds to something else.
Post revisions lets you tract post changes and revert them back easily but they populates your site _posts table and increases its size. This tutorial contains two simple wp-config.php file hacks you can use for turning off or limiting your posts revisions. Continue reading How To Limit Or Entirely Turn Off Post Revisions In WordPress ?→
WordPress can be used in many different languages. By default the language installed and active on WP sites is English. You can easily change your installation language by editing your wp-config.php file which is present in your site’s root directory. Remember it may happen that the language you have defined in your wp-config.php file is not installed in your WordPress site. In such case you can download your language files from here and upload them to Your site root -> wp-content -> Languages directory.
Without visiting cPanel and editing or adding PHP files you can very easily customize your WordPress installation with some basic hacks that every WordPress site owner needs, specially if you are working on your client website.
You can easily style headings you use for your blog posts, pages and everywhere else in your WordPress site simply by editing your theme’s style.css file. Style.css file is located in the directory of theme you are using. You can easily edit it from your admin area Dashboard -> Appearance -> Editor Page in single WordPress installations and Network Admin Dashboard -> Themes -> Editor Page in WordPress Multisite Networks.
You might have noticed there is a small message (Thank you for creating with WordPress.) and version information on every WordPress admin area dashboard’s footer. Some users wants to remove it, if you are one of them then here’s an easy hack and a simple plugin that lets you remove admin footer information very easily.
Sometimes you want to remove the logo from WordPress admin bar especially when you are keeping admin bar visible for the logged out users or sometimes in your client websites etc. You can do this very easily by adding a code snippet in your theme functions file.
Sometime you want to link some words inside your posts and page to other URLs. For example if you want to link WordPress to one of your page describing WordPress or you want it directly to be linked with WordPress.Org. In this article we will show you how you can do it in your WordPress based website.
Yes you can redirect 404 page to your website’s homepage. Open your 404.php file (if it doesn’t exist then create a blank file) and add the following code:
Today one of our reader emailed us asking how he can edit footer information (powered by) links in Atahualpa WordPress Theme. He tried to edit it in Theme’s footer file but he didn’t get any link showing powered by information, he searched for it in other theme files and at last he got it in the functions.php file but as soon he removed it he got some footer error on the front end of his WordPress blog.
Here are two powerful and free WordPress plugins that lets you create theme option, meta boxes in both free and premium WordPress themes. These plugins get easily integrated in almost all WordPress themes and provides you easy admin interface for building theme options.
