Archive for the ‘WordPress’ Category

How To Display the Author Profile Box in WordPress Without a Plugin

In this tutorial, I will show you how to easily develop and display the Author´s Bio box in your WordPress posts without the need of a plugin. Probably you already have seen some Websites displaying the Author´s profile at the end of each post and you wonder how it is done.

Are you putting a face to your articles? Continue Reading »

How To Display Word Count of WordPress Posts Without a Plugin

In this tutorial, I will show you how to easily display the word count of a WordPress post without the need of a plugin. Admittedly, this is probably not very common to see the word count displayed in a Blog. However, in case you need to display the post´s number of words, this tutorial will show you how. Continue Reading »

WordPress 3.2 is Available

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Yesterday, WordPress 3.2 has been released. The focus of this release is to make WordPress faster and lighter, with a new dashboard design and a new default Twenty Eleven theme that fully supports HTML5, among other improvements.

When you can, download and update to the latest version of WordPress 3.2, or you can automatically update via your WordPress admin panel. Continue Reading »

Completely Remove WordPress Generator Tag Without a Plugin

In this tutorial I will show you the right way to completely remove the WordPress generator meta tag from the header section of your WordPress Website´s source and from your feed. Also I will show you the full code for removing other default tags generated in the header of your WordPress Website.

By default WordPress leaves its footprint on your Website. Continue Reading »

How To preserve HTML Tags in WordPress Excerpt Without a Plugin

WordPress Excerpt is a summary of your content. In this tutorial I will show you how to preserve HTML formatting for the automatically generated excerpts without the need of a plugin, and also choose what HTML tags to keep. For a manually typed excerpt, WordPress will keep all HTML formatting you have included in the excerpt. Continue Reading »

How To Improve WordPress Excerpt Without a Plugin

In this tutorial I will show you how to enhance WordPress Excerpt by using simple functions and without the need of a plugin. WordPress Excerpt is an optional summary of your content.

The relationship between the Manual Excerpt, Automatic Excerpt, and Teaser is this: When a post has no manual excerpt and the post template uses the the_excerpt() tag, WordPress automatically generates an excerpt by selecting the first 55 words of the post followed by the unlinked ellipsis “[...]”. Continue Reading »

How To Add Related Posts to WordPress Without a Plugin

Displaying “Related posts” is a popular feature and an excellent way to keep visitors longer on your WordPress blog and help them discover other related content. One way to keep them interested is to display a list of related posts; otherwise, they might just leave.

The picture below shows an example of Related Posts generated for this blog. Continue Reading »

WordPress Editor Behaves Strangely in Internet Explorer

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If WordPress Editor in your Administration Panels behaves strangely and not as you expect it, then continue reading, this post might be your solution.

Problems With the WordPress Editor

A little background: This blog is a self-hosted WordPress blog. Since its creation, about 14 months ago from this post date, I was using IE7, and then IE8 to access the WordPress Dashboard. Continue Reading »