Many a times website owners edit or hack the plugin to change its default behavior. For instance, you edit the CSS of some widget plugin to match your website theme.
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Uploading Big Plugin Files From WordPress Admin Area
Default WordPress plugin uploader crashes whenever you try uploading plugin zip files of size exceeding maximum PHP memory. For instance, some default PHP installations have 2MB memory and when you try uploading plugin zip bigger than 2MB, the uploader crashes showing some PHP error.
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How To Use Custom Colors On Social Sharing Buttons In WordPress?
Most of the WordPress sharing plugins uses the same default color for social icons like blue for Facebook sharing button, red for Google Plus and Pinterest, orange for StumbleUpon etc etc.
Even the plugins that allows you to select a custom color doesn’t lets you set it on per icon basis. Here comes the use of a plugin with more powerful color customization hacks.
Saif Sohel has created an awesome social sharing plugin. Unlike to other social sharing plugin this new WordPress addon allows you to use a custom color for each sharing icon.
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How To Hide WordPress Date Stamp From Google Search Results?
Yesterday, we have discussed about removing dates from old posts in your WordPress site. Today in this tutorial we will be showing you how you can hide dates on Google SERP (Search Engine Results Page).
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How To Remove Date From Old Posts In WordPress?
You can hide date from old posts and show it on new posts, great trick for blogs with evergreen content. There are various plugins that allows you to hide dates but most date remover plugins work globally on your WordPress installation.
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How To Credit Images With Nofollow Links In WordPress?
Problem comes when you are not sure about the spammy nature of websites you are linking to. Suppose you are using any image which has been labelled for reuse and you link the image source to the website you’re not entirely sure you trust. In such type of cases it’s always good to make sure the credit link is nofollow.
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Easily Run Mobile Version Of Your WordPress Site On A Subdomain
Facebook, Twitter and there are many other popular websites that provides you separate URLs for mobile and desktop versions. This allows users to decide whether they like browsing the mobile version or accessing full site version on their mobile phones.
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How To Keep Any WordPress Plugin Off On Mobile Devices?
By default all plugins go active on all types of devices. There is no default feature of making any plugin to work only on desktop or only on mobile devices.
Toady, David Behrens, a user of SANGKRIT.net emailed us asking how he can keep a plugin work only on desktop operating systems and keep it switched off on smartphones at the same time. He just wanted to keep his jQuery mega menu off on smartphones.
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How To Use Two Column Comment Form Layout In WordPress?
You must have observed various websites displaying a two columned comment form, as that looks more symmetrical on some websites. Now you can easily customize the default WordPress comment form and make it something other than default.
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How To Hide Sidebars On Small Screen Devices In Twenty Fourteen WordPress Theme?
By default, most WordPress themes slides sidebars to bottom on small screen devices like on mobile phones and tablets. But you must have observed various websites automatically remove the sidebars if it’s viewed on a small screen and keep it visible everywhere else.
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How Display Widgets In Two Or More Columns In A WordPress Sidebar?
A single sidebar or footer can easily be divided into multiple columns and multiple widgets can be added there. For example: Suppose you want to display a recent posts widget next to ad text widget in your website’s sidebar.
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How To Use A Responsive Scroll To Top Button In WordPress?
There are various scroll top button plugins available for WordPress. Scroll to top or to top buttons simply allows you to instantly scroll back to header of the webpage. In this tutorial we will show you how to make it work on responsive WordPress sites.
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How To Add AJAX Based Post Rating System In WordPress?
You can offer your users to rate posts and pages in your WordPress site. WP-PostRatings plugins provides you an easy AJAX rating system with all useful features and management options.
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How To Enable Inline Preview In WordPress?
Instead of opening post preview in a new tab everytime, you can add an on request inline preview next to the post editor. Inline Preview, a free WordPress plugin by Christopher Finke simply adds a live preview slide next to post content text area.
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How To Hide Feature Images On Single Post Screens In Twenty Fourteen WordPress Theme?
Twenty Fourteen, the new default WordPress theme displays featured images (post thumbnails) both on single and multi-post pages.
How To Auto Generate Posts And Other Content In WordPress (For Testing Purpose)?
Every time any developer creates any new theme or plugin or when you design your client’s website or while checking for new plugins and hacks etc, there is always some need of custom data like posts, pages, comments, users, tags & categories etc (it depends) in order to check the working of any plugin or whatever you are developing.
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How To Set Minimal Comment Length In WordPress?
Most blog commenters comment only for building good backlinks from your website and hence result is you get most of the comments as ‘Nice post’, ‘Great post, ‘Thanks for writing up’, ‘Thank you for the post’ etc.
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How To Show Authors Only Their Post Comments In WordPress Admin Area?
Default WordPress functionality shows all comments (in admin area) to all registered authors in your website. In this tutorial we will show you how you can restrict comment visibility in admin section so that authors can see only comments posted on their articles.
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How To Set Comments Cessation On Per Post Basis In WordPress?
It is easy to set comment expiration date on per post/post type basis in WordPress. Comment Expirator plugin enables you to close comments, pingbacks and also trackbacks on your posts, pages and custom post types on an individual basis.
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How To Send Approved Comment Notification In WordPress?
Ever thought of robotically notifying your website users and visitors after approving their comments in your WordPress site? Now you easily do so with new plugin by Niels Van Renselaar.
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BuddyPress 2.1 Is Coming With More Intelligible Social Networking Features
We have noticed various BuddyPress site owners discussing on how they can change the term ‘Avatar’ with ‘Profile Photo’ because it is more unanimous.
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