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How To Export & Import Individual WordPress 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.

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How To Archive & Un-publish WordPress Posts/Post Types?

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.

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How To Copy Content From One Website To Another In WordPress Multisite?

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.

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How To Disable WordPress Posts Or Limit It To Admin Only?

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.

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How To Bulk Create WordPress Categories & Other Taxonomy Terms?

Now you know how to create multiple posts or post types at once in your WordPress site. We have also discussed about bulk posting videos from YouTube, Vimeo & DailyMotion etc to WordPress. In this lesson you will learn about creating terms & taxonomies like tags, categories etc in bulk on your WordPress installation.  Continue reading How To Bulk Create WordPress Categories & Other Taxonomy Terms?

How To Instantly Create Multiple Posts And Post Types In WordPress?

Now you can quickly create multiple posts, pages and other custom post types from a single interface in WordPress. Bulk Content Creator is a WordPress plugin that allows you to bulk create posts and other custom post types.  Continue reading How To Instantly Create Multiple Posts And Post Types In WordPress?

How To Silently Update Posts 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?

Displaying Custom Author Profile Box After 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.

Great for multi author WordPress sites where unregistered authors submits posts for publication. With this plugin you can create multiple custom profiles in order to take preference over website user profiles.  Continue reading Displaying Custom Author Profile Box After Posts In WordPress

Switching Between Post Edit Screens In WordPress

Earlier we have discussed about navigating to next & previous post edit screen in WordPress while editing any post in admin area. Now today in this lesson we will show how to switch between edit screens on posts, pages, and custom post types using a drop-down metabox.  Continue reading Switching Between Post Edit Screens In WordPress

Set Limit For Maximum Number Of Tags In WordPress Posts

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.

In this lesson we will show you how to easily set maximum number of tags for posts in your WordPress site.  Continue reading Set Limit For Maximum Number Of Tags In WordPress Posts

Limit Contributors Only To Their Posts In WordPress

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

Set Link Relationship To No-referrer In WordPress Based Website

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.

A link relation is a descriptive attribute added to any hyperlink in order to define the type of the link i.e. the the relationship between the source and destination resources.  Continue reading Set Link Relationship To No-referrer In WordPress Based Website

Prevent New Slug Conflicts With Trash In WordPress

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

Export & Sync Comments Between WordPress And Disqus Comment System

Earlier we have discussed about installing and configuring Disqus comment system in your WordPress site. We have also discussed about resolving the width and CSS issue that shows up on some WordPress themes when used with Disqus.

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.

So in this lesson we will show you how to export WordPress comments to Discus comment systeom. We will also talk about snycing comments between Disqus and WordPress so that you can download your Disqus comments and store them locally in WordPress.  Continue reading Export & Sync Comments Between WordPress And Disqus Comment System

Fixing Up Disqus Comment Form Width On Twenty Fourteen WordPress Theme

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.

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In this lesson we will show you how you can align your Discus comment box on Twenty Fourteen WordPress theme.  Continue reading Fixing Up Disqus Comment Form Width On Twenty Fourteen WordPress Theme

Installing & Configuring Disqus Comment System In WordPress

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

New WordPress Quick FrontEnd Editor With AJAX Based Process

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.

You may also use this plugin in addition with ‘Remove Dashboard Access‘ to completely hide dashboard from your website users. Great for static client websites when you just want to allow your client to update content without accessing the admin section.  Continue reading New WordPress Quick FrontEnd Editor With AJAX Based Process

Easily Insert Smilies From TinyMCE Visual Editor (WYSIWYG) In WordPress

Smileys, also known as “emoticons,” are glyphs used to convey facial emotions in your text. WordPress provides you option to create smilies inside your text content.

You can easily enable smilies option by visiting your admin area dashboard Settings -> Writing screen and ticking ‘Convert emoticons like :-) and :-P to graphics on display’ under formatting section. When this option is enabled, you may start creating smilies with traditional way of typing two or more punctuation marks.

Some examples are;-) is equivalent to smile emoticon :-) is equivalent to smile emoticon :( is equivalent to sad emoticon :-? is equivalent to confused emoticon

But not everyone knows all emoticons & smilies, it is hard to remember smilies like ragg, roll, oops, evil etc. Hence, by adding a smiley inserter TinyMCE button, you will sure be making things easy for yourself and for other users on your website.  Continue reading Easily Insert Smilies From TinyMCE Visual Editor (WYSIWYG) In WordPress