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What Is A Child Theme And How To Create One In WordPress?

A child theme simply inherits the functionality of any WordPress theme. Child themes enables you to edit or add new functionalities to main parent theme without digging inside its code files. The features added to a child theme overrides the features of main theme and hence it is the safest way for adding custom CSS, custom hacks and the best thing is that the code added to a child theme doesn’t gets lost after new updates.

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How To Bulk Convert Posts To Custom Post Types In WordPress?

With in a few clicks you can convert your WordPress posts or pages to some other custom post types and also you can do opposite of same i.e. you can convert any custom post type to posts or pages. Convert Post Types provides you the functions for converting posts and post types in WordPress.

This is not just limited to conversion but the plugin also enables you to limit the conversion to posts from a single category or children of some specific pages and vice versa. You can also assign new taxonomy terms (like tags and categories), which will get automatically added to the posts’ existing terms. This way you can migrate any specific category to a new post type without disturbing any other content.

To start, first install and activate Convert Post Types plugin. Take backup of you database before you start playing with this plugin or if you are sure about what you are doing then visit your admin area Dashboard -> Tools -> Convert Post Types admin page and choose the ‘Convert from‘ and ‘Convert to‘ post type options.

How To Convert WordPress Posts To Custom Post Types In Bulk?

Select a category if you want limiting this conversion. You can add taxonomies to get auto assigned to your content after the post type conversion process. Finally, click the ‘Convert‘ button and wait for the process to complete, process time depends entirely on the amount of content you are converting.

How To Change Number Of Posts To Be Displayed On WordPress Blogpage?

By default WordPress displays recent posts on homepage. Blogpage, posts page or frontpage are the pages where multiple posts are shown. WordPress allows you to change the number of posts showing up on blog page, by default it displays 10 posts per page. Here we will be explaining you how to change this number to the number of posts you like showing up on your blog page or home page.

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How To Parse Or Fetch Selective URLs In WordPress Posts?

URL Parsing is mostly used by the social networking websites like Google+ & Facebook. URL parsing means whenever you type any URL, the service automatically grabs its details like title and description. Earlier we posted a tutorial for enabling URL parsing/fetching feature in BuddyPress with BuddyPress Activity Plus Plugin. Now, today we will explain you URL parsing in WordPress so that you can fetch any link details inside your posts, pages & other post types.

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Easily Enable Guest Posting Feature For Unregistered WordPress Users In One Minute

Earlier we have discussed about building an account based guest posting system with WordPress. But that’s off course not for everybody. This tutorial is for the website owners who simply want to generate a for for accepting guest posts without allows any kind of new account creation. The plugin works out of box and is one of the easiest guest posting plugin for WordPress.

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How To Write Product Reviews Without Creating Any New Post Type In WordPress?

Earlier we have discussed about creating a review website with WordPress, but that method activates a new post type whereas in this tutorial we will be explaining you how you can write product reviews without adding any new custom post type. WP Product Review is plugin which adds in-depth reviews & ratings features to basic WordPress posts. The bloggers make regular posts but at the bottom of the page, the plugin will ask you if this post is a review or not. If you select “Yes, it opens up a whole bunch of extra fields and makes it easy for you to list product’s features, its pros and cons, you can add a product image and add other review details.

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Building Account Based Guest Posting System In WordPress

Creating an account based guest posting system means you want to all guest post bloggers to be registered on your WordPress site as a contributor role. You can simply enable registration from your website settings and select the default user role as ‘Contributor’, contributors cannot publish any post directly instead they can only leave the post for review. Peter’s Collaboration E-mails make this system more powerful and much better. It is a free WordPress plugin which enables automatic emails to the relevant users on your website during the collaboration workflows.

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How To Use Custom Website Titles For Selected Posts, Pages & Taxonomies In WordPress?

We have discussed about the plugins that lets you show menus and widgets on the basis of post, pages and taxonomies etc. But now you can use similar feature for showing up a custom title on some specific webpages of your WordPress site. Flexible Blogtitle is the new very lightweight plugin which enables you to set conditions for displaying custom titles on selected areas of your website.

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Enable Read More Link To Open Up Post In AJAXified Inline Modal WordPress Box

Default ‘Read More’ links opens up post in a fresh web page. As soon ‘Read More’ link is clicked, the page opens up with a refresh. In this tutorial we will explain you how you can open up the post in same window in a AJAXified popup which instantly comes visible without any page refresh.

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How To Record Post Reactions Of Your WordPress Site Visitors?

Not everyone who reads your post comments on your website and mostly the comments are made by the website owners and bloggers working to build up good back links to increase page rank and traffic towards their web addresses. Now, if you add some feedback buttons after you posts and ask your readers to rate the post can bring a boost of reactions (if you have traffic).

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Now You Can Display Related Posts With Thumbnails Using Jetpack

Now Jetpack also provides you fully functional module for displaying related posts of your website. This new Jetpack’s feature feature pulls out the relevant content from your blog and displays it at the bottom of your posts. When the feature is enabled, a new section of related posts automatically appears underneath your Jetpack’s Sharing Buttons and WordPress.com Likes (if its on).

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How To Create Custom Single Post Templates In WordPress?

Single Post Template plugin lets you enables your theme to include “Post Templates” in much the same way you can add “Page Templates”, the plugin provides you a dropdown which enables you to choose which post template you like using on a per-post basis. Yes, by using this cool plugin you can create one or more “Post Templates” in your theme’s folder, and when creating or editing a post, choose the post template that you would like to use. If no post template is selected, the default template will be used.

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How To Display Post Authorship For Unregistered Authors In WordPress?

Here an awesome plugin for the websites that allows guest posting. Default WordPress feature provides you authorship i.e. displaying author’s name with link to all posts he posted on your website but what then when you want to publish some posts without registering any new author in your WordPress site.

Sometimes you like displaying an author name on a post without register any new user and sometimes when you delete any registered author and WordPress assigns all his posts to someone else but you want to display his name for the posts he made on your website. Here’s your solution.

Enabling Authorship For Unregistered Users:

Simply install and activate the new Post Authorship plugin. After activation the plugin adds a new metabox (for entering custom author name) on your add new & edit post screens. The metabox provides you a simple text field to enter a custom author name.

Now if you leave it to blank, the plugin will display original author’s name but if you type any name there then plugin will change the default author name to the name you just typed. Another good thing about the plugin is that it displays the author’s name with link (just like WP default) which directs the users to a page showing archive of posts made by that particular author and hence the registered and unregistered authors on the frontend looks the same.

How To Enable Your Website Visitors Collect Their Favorite Posts In WordPress?

You can easily enable a good feature that simply allows your website visitors to add their favorite posts. The WP Favorite Posts is a free WordPress plugin that uses cookies for saving data and hence the unregistered users can favorite any post they like.

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How To Change Custom Post Type Icons On WordPress Admin Menu?

There hundreds of plugins that allows you to register new custom post types, some plugins automatically provides you post types made for specific purposes like news, blog and events etc and some plugins enables you to manually register your own custom post types but there is no custom post type plugin that lets you manually edit the post type icon that appears in dashboard’s side menu. In this tutorial we will show you how you can assign or edit post types icons, the best thing is you can edit all custom post type icons no matter if that post type is registered by a plugin, a PHP hack or you have manully registered it.

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Easily Generate Carousel Galleries From Images Attached To Posts In WordPress

Carousel-of-post-images provides you completely integrated jcarousel Image Gallery shortcode and function call that enables quick and easy galleries generated from images attached to posts. Photos inside the gallery are selected from either all images attached to posts, or from images attached to a specific post. By default it selects 10 random images from all posts.

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Get Detailed Report On Authors & Their Content Publishing In Your WordPress Site

WP Author Report Free is the new WordPress plugin that generates the report showing statistics etc on how authors of your website are working etc. It provides you a detailed report of content published in your website, how many posts your authors are making, per day, per week, per month or any other duration you want to see. You could also see how those posts are getting response in terms of views count.

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How To Avoid Accidental Content Publishing In WordPress?

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.

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Checking For Grammar & Spelling Mistakes In WordPress

Jetpack already provides you a module for After the Deadline proofreading service for improving your writing via artificial intelligence to find your errors and offer smart suggestions. It also provides a number of customization options which you can easily set from your profile (Dashboard -> Users -> Your Profile).

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How To List Any Category Posts Inside Pages And Other Post Types In WordPress?

List Category Posts enables you to list posts from a given category into any page, post or anyother post type using the [catlist] shortcode. While creating or editing any page or post you can directly insert its shortcode and the posts will get listed there.

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How To Disable Auto Tag Suggestions In WordPress?

By default WordPress automatically shows you tag suggestions when you start typing tags for your blog posts but sometimes this is very irritating, specially if you have a large number of tags in your WordPress site. This tutorial explains you an easy way to turn off automatic tag suggestions on tags metabox visible on edit post screens.

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