Wordpress Hacks

Your WordPress blog sidebar is an essential element of your blog, however, on some occasions you might not want it to be displayed on your blog homepage.To hide your sidebar on your homepage, edit the index.php file from your theme and look for the following snippet of code:{code type=php}{/code}and replace it with:{code type=php} [...] → Read More

For any reason, you may want to disable search engine indexing on a specific category of your WordPress blog: the category page as well as all the posts in that category.The very first thing to do is to get the ID of the category you'd like to not be indexed by search engines. Browse to [...] → Read More

Nowadays, putting images in your blog posts is almost an obligation to catch the eye of your blog readers. But very often, if the images are too big, they might break your blog layout. Here is a very easy yet extremely powerful tip to avoid this problem.All you have to do is paste the following [...] → Read More

Since quite some time, WordPress includes a way to set a thumbnail image for your blog posts. I make extensive use of these thumbnails in the themes I get designed for all my WordPress blogs. But what about displaying post thumbnails in your RSS Feed?To display post thumbnail in your WordPress blog's RSS Feed, just [...] → Read More

There are lots of blogs which are displaying a list of the most popular posts in the past X days. These posts' toplists are generally based on the number of pageviews, but I believe that getting the most commented posts of the week is a more accurate way of displaying the popular posts.To display a [...] → Read More

I use Google Analytics on all my WordPress-based websites. There simply isn't any other free analytics that can compare with this one. The problem when implementing Google Analytics is that you must edit your theme files to paste the code where needed and you mustn't forget to paste the code in your new theme whenever [...] → Read More

When you're blogging, you definitely want to create a connection with your readers to gain their attention and their trust. A good way to do that is to display a customized "welcome" message to your visitors.You might not know it, but when people are leaving a comment on your WordPress blog, a cookie gets written [...] → Read More

One of the very nice things about blogging is that your readers can leave comments on your posts just minutes after you publish them. However, as you allow your readers to subscribe to your RSS Feed to read your posts, they do not visit your site directly so they might not think about leaving comments.One [...] → Read More

You may want to make sure that all the posts published on your WordPress blog have a minimum word count, especially if you are allowing guest contributors to post on your blog. This can also help maintaining a clean layout and a decent post quality.To enable this WordPress hack, paste the following code in your [...] → Read More

Your WordPress blog sidebar is an essential element of your blog, however, on some occasions you might not want it to be displayed on your date-based archive pages.To hide your sidebar on your date-based archive pages, edit the archive.php file from your theme (if your theme doesn't include this file, edit the index.php file) and [...] → Read More