By default WordPress only allows you to exclude your whole website from search engine results page, this is done from Settings -> Reading page on WordPress admin.
WordPress doesn’t provides you any option for doing same for selective posts, pages and custom post types.
Default WordPress post save button only updates your blog post or saves post draft. In this lesson you will learn about adding more useful options so that you can save your precious time while updating and modifying your blog posts.
You can individually export and import WordPress posts, pages and other custom post types. By default WordPress exporter in Tools menu allows you to bulk export posts using XML file format. It allows you to export posts by selected date range, categories, tags, authors and post types but has no option to export single content type.
You can archive any WordPress post, page or any other custom post type in order to unpublish it without sending it to trash. The feature is quite popular on email inboxes but now you can use same type of function on your WordPress website too.
You can design posts the way you want, you can insert images, rotate them to some angle, write text before or after them, adjust text location and size with inserted image and much more with Zedity WordPress editor.
Earlier we have discussed about copying complete WordPress websites with all theme options and settings to new ones. Now in this lesson you will learn about copying content of one website to another in a WordPress multisite network.
If you are not using default WordPress posts functionality and using only pages or custom post types then you can easily remove the posts section from your admin area dashboard or limit it to website admins.
In this lesson we will provide you PHP fucntions you can either use in your theme’s function.php file or via Code Snippets plugin to limit or disable posts features in WordPress.
By default when a post is updated in WordPress, the modification date is automatically changed. In this lesson you learn about stopping WordPress to change modification date so that you can silently update posts without letting anyone know about the new changes you have to that post after it has been published online. Continue reading How To Silently Update Posts in WordPress?→
There are many author box plugins that allows you to automatically display post author’s profile at the bottom of the content. This lesson is about Custom About Author plugin that allows you to show author profile at the end of the post and also provides you an option to display the author’s user profile or a custom profile.
Tags in WordPress provides you an easy way for grouping related posts together in your blog or website. You can show it in menus, after posts, in a tag cloud widget etc. By default WordPress allows authors to add as many tags they want to add in their posts.
It is possible in WordPress to limit authors, editors and contributers to only their posts on your WordPress website. This removes all unnecessary content clatter from all posts admin screen and allows your authors to see only their posts in admin area. Continue reading Limit Contributors Only To Their Posts In WordPress→
Earlier we have discussed about a service that hides referrers to anonymize all external links in your WordPress website. The service works by prefixing its own domain address before your domain name and hence all tracking services counts that service as referrer instead of counting your website.
In this lesson you will learn about doing same thing with link relationship technique. This is also a good option as it doesn’t take any work from external services.
When a post is deleted, it it not completely removed from your website. It goes to trash. You can access trash content by visiting your admin area dashboard Posts -> All Posts then by clicking the ‘Trash’ filter. Same can be done for pages and other custom post types. Continue reading Prevent New Slug Conflicts With Trash In WordPress→
Now the next big issue experienced by new Disqus users is exporting old WordPress comments made with native WordPress comment functionality to Disqus commenting system.
Disqus, the popular comment system we have discussed about sometimes causes a common display issue. Sometimes on some WordPress themes Disqus comment form appear wider than rest of the content. This can easily be fixed by inserting custom CSS under ‘disqus_thread’ CSS id.
First, you will be needing to figure out the width of the content area of your WordPress theme and then use custom CSS
How to insert custom CSS? One can insert custom CSS with some custom CSS inserter plugin or with Jetpack by WordPress.com’s edit CSS module that shows up on Appearance -> Edit CSS screen or by overriding custom CSS on your website’s child theme.
Disqus is a third party featurefull commenting system for WordPress and other website frameworks. WordPress already provides you a built-in commenting system and it has its own commenting network which anyone can activate with Jetpack by WordPress.com plugin. Continue reading Installing & Configuring Disqus Comment System In WordPress→
WP Quick FrontEnd Editor is the new WordPress plugin that lets you edit all website contents containing posts, pages and other custom post types using an AJAX based interface from front end, without going to the admin area dashboard.