WP-Sweep is a WordPress plugin that uses regular WordPress functions to clean up database clatter of your website and get optimized database tables for better performance.
Unlike to other database plugins, even the most popular one called WP-Optimize, this plugin uses proper WordPress delete functions as much as possible instead of running direct delete MySQL queries. Continue reading Clean Up Unused, Orphaned And Duplicated Data In WordPress Database With Proper Functions
You can enable new custom fields to quick edit panel in order to apply quick edit actions to multiple posts at once.
Custom Bulk/Quick Edit is a WordPress plugin that allows you to add custom fields on edit screen bulk for posts, pages and other custom post types. This way you can you can perform quick edit actions in bulk on your WordPress site. Continue reading Using ‘Quick Edit’ Option With Bulk Actions In WordPress
Earlier we have discussed about changing background color. Most WordPress themes allows you to change background color or use a custom image as background of your WordPress site. This is done from your admin area dashboard Appearance -> Customize screen and selecting the background options.
You can also change background from Appearance -> Background admin screen. In this lesson we are discussing about a plugin that allows you to switch from simple background color or image to randomly color stripes. Continue reading Fabulous Background Colors – Add Random Colored Stripes With Smooth Color Transitions In WordPress
When yo link to any article on Internet, a notification is send to that website owner in the form of trackback or pingback. Whenever you link to any website, there are various services that can track the liking and send information on how many referrers are sent from your website.
This is ofcouse not problem but sometimes you just don’t want to allow anyone to track you or may be if you don’t want any website owner consider your website or whatsoever may be the reason, there are many free services that allows you to stop referrers on external links on your website. Continue reading Hide Referer And Anonymize All External Links In WordPress
In WordPress 4.2, the link title field from the popup box has been replaced with link text field. Link title attribute text shown when the user hovers over to the link.
But these days when smartphone, tablets and other mobile devices are more active, nobody cares about the link title attribute because it is not seen by most users.
Link title only shows up on desktop and laptops, some people thinks that it is useful for SEO and some only use it for writing a brief text for the link so that their visitors can know where they are going to. Continue reading Restoring Link Title Attribute Field In WordPress 4.2+ Versions
You can pull menu from another website on your multisite network to easily achieve a universal navigation and make things go fast and easy without needing to manually recreate same menus on other websites.
Earlier we have discussed about exporting and importing navigation menus in WordPress so that you can backup them or use them on other websites. Today in this lesson you will learn about using same navigation menu or pulling menus from other websites across your multisite network. Continue reading Keeping Shared Menus On WordPress Multisite Network
Jetpack by WordPress.com plugin provides you a variety of useful modules but sometimes website owners don’t want them all. Earlier we have discussed about keeping all or individual modules deactivated by default.
And today in this lesson you will learn how to remove all unnecessary modules from your website to keep a less confusing admin environ.
Continue reading Removing Unnecessary Jetpack Modules From WordPress
For customizing the default behavior of WordPress, webmasters either use plugins or insert hacks i.e. PHP functions and filters inside activated theme’s function.php file.
This works but when you insert any code without creating a child theme, it gets is automatically washed away in new updates.
Earlier we have discussed about creating child themes, we have also discussed about generating child theme with a user friendly wizard and there is a plugin that allows you to generate child theme of any theme in a click of a button.
Yes, you can easily insert custom PHP function in the functions.php file of your child theme but today in this lesson you will learn about a more easy way of inserting and activating PHP hacks directly from your admin area dashboard.
When using Jetpack by WordPress.com plugin, whenever any new module is introduced, it gets automatically enabled on your WordPress installation and in-case of WordPress multisite network, all websites experiences the same issue.
In this lesson you will learn about keeping all Jetpack modules deactivated by default.
Continue reading Keeping All Jetpack Modules Deactivated (Disabled) By Default In WordPress
BuddyPress already provides you a private messaging system but the plugin is intended for creating social networking websites. Ever wanted to use a good private messaging system for the authors, editors and other users on a WordPress multiauthor website.
In this lesson you will learn about adding a private messaging system on WordPress sites and blogs.
Continue reading Front End Private Messaging System For WordPress
Earlier we have discussed about finding and deleting all unattached media files like photos and videos etc in WordPress. An unattached media file is one which is uploaded but not used inside your content.
The default behavior of WordPress generates attachment pages for images uploaded in your media library. This is useful but sometimes can cause problems. Attachment pages are also created for unattached media files and have no pretty permalink structure which is not good for SEO reasons and is not useful for anyone. Continue reading Redirect All Unattached Images To Homepage In WordPress
Since 4.2 update, WordPress has introduced compatibility and support for emojis, the ideograms and smileys. Emojis are the ideograms or smileys 
used in electronic messages and Web pages. Originating in Japan on mobile devices, they are now commonly available on devices worldwide, ranging from mobile to desktop computers.
But there are many bloggers who don’t want this functionality on their WordPress sites, a few days back a SANGKRIT.net hosting user also asked us to post lesson on reverting back to classic WordPress smilies.
So in this lesson you will learn about disabling emojis and reverting back to classic smilies in WordPress.
Continue reading Disable Emojis Or Revert Back To Classic Smilies In WordPress
By default WordPress allows you to use only one image as post thumbnail i.e. featured post image. In this lesson you will learn how to use multiple images as featured on your WordPress site. Continue reading Keeping Multiple Featured Images On WordPress Posts & Post Types
Now you can upload media files like photos and videos etc directly from ZIP file to your WordPress media library and the use them inside your posts, pages and other custom post types.
The feature is great for photo blogging, portfolio websites uploading big amount of high quality images. It not only makes uploading faster but uses less amount of data, memory, resources and the very good thing is you can upload many images at once. Continue reading Automatically Add Images From ZIP File To Media Library In WordPress
Expire Passwords is the new WordPress plugin that allows you to automatically expire user account passwords after a set time interval. This way you can harden your WordPress site security and prevent unauthorized access of stale user accounts.
WordPress post formats is a post presentation feature introduced with WordPress version of 3.1. It is a block of meta information used by theme to customize the display of post.
Post Formats are set from post edit screen, you can easily select a post format using ‘Format’ metabox on ADD NEW/EDIT screen. It provides you a standardized list of formats that works on supported themes.
In this lesson you will learn how to easily convert post formats by category. For instance: Suppose you have a category VIDEO where you have posted all video posts on your website.
And now you want to make use of WordPress post formats and display your videos in a better way, using a good presentation indeed. So the problem is how to convert that video category’s general blog posts into posts in video post format.
Continue reading Bulk Converting Post Formats By Category In WordPress
Scroll to top buttons are header links used to allow website visitors to smoothly and instantly scroll back to the top of a website in a click. In this lesson we will show you how to add an elevator style scroll to top button in WordPress. Continue reading New Elevator Style Scroll To Top Button For WordPress
When an image is uploaded to a WordPress site, the system automatically creates multiple image sizes, but keeps the original image (no matter how big it is). Smart bloggers upload optimized, resized and lightweight images but atleast once in a lifetime all make mistake of uploading very large image files.
When large image files are hosted and used on a website, you get massive image embeds inside your content, which can drastically slow down your website.
In this lesson you will learn about correcting this mistake by bulk resizing all images on your website. There are two good plugin you can use in your WordPress installation.
By default all external and internal links on a WordPress site works the same way. But you might have noticed various websites displaying and processing external links differently from internal links. For instance: Websites based on Mediawiki shows a small icon on external links, some websites open external links on a new window or tab etc etc.
In this lesson you will learn how to process external links i.e. outgoing links differently from the links interconnecting your website pages locally.
Continue reading Process Outgoing Links Differently From Internal Links In WordPress
Earlier we have discussed about deleting WordPress posts, page and other post type by using custom filters. Now in this lesson you will learn about deleting posts between some date range on your WordPress site.
Continue reading Easily Delete Posts By Date Range In WordPress
WordPress supports special characters and now its update of 4.2 has made writing in WordPress much better. It supports a host of new characters out-of-the-box, including native Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters, musical and mathematical symbols, and hieroglyphs.
And even if you don’t make use of any of such characters then you can have fun with popular emoji, the ideograms and smileys 😃.
In this lesson you will learn about using special characters in your WordPress posts, pages and other custom post types using native visual editor of WordPress.
