WordPress Excerpt is an optional summary of your posts. In this tutorial, I will show you how to automatically control the Manually typed excerpt AND the Automatically generated excerpt at the same time, by using a simple function and without the need of a plugin.
The image below shows the result when using CODE-Y below. Notice that both the Manually typed Excerpt and the Auto-generated excerpt are present. Continue Reading »
In this tutorial, I will show you how to use Gravatar as Favicon in WordPress as shown in the image below. The image shows that I am using my Gravatar image as Favicon.
A favicon (short for Favorite icon) is an image, most commonly 16×16 pixels, associated with a particular Website. The browsers typically display a page´s favicon in the address bar and next to the page´s name in a list of bookmarks and also in the browser tabs. Continue Reading »
In this tutorial, I will show you how to refine and filter Search Results in your WordPress Blog´s front-end. Specifically, I will show you how to Exclude Posts, Pages, specific Categories, Custom Post Types and more from your WordPress Search Option.
In general, every WordPress Blog has a Search box that you can use to search based on your keywords. Continue Reading »
As of June 11, 2013, Twitter API v1 officially retired. The new version is Twitter API v1.1. Thus the code discussed in this post NO longer works. I will update this post with the new code if/when I find a solution. Thanks.
Do you want to display your latest tweets on your WordPress Website? Continue Reading »
In a previous tutorial, I showed you How To Customize WordPress Login Screen Without a Plugin. In this tutorial, I will show you a different and better approach to do that.
The problem with my previous tutorial, is that most likely you will lose your changes the next time you upgrade your WordPress version. Continue Reading »
In this tutorial, I will show you how to Protect email Addresses in WordPress, and prevent email spam with the built-in WordPress antispambot() function. You probably did not know that there is a function in WordPress that automatically obfuscate an email address.
Spam bots are regularly scanning the Web to find emails to spam. But what if you want to display your email, or other Authors´ emails on your WordPress blog? Continue Reading »
In this tutorial, I will show you how to separate pings (Trackbacks & Pingbacks) from comments when using the wp_list_comments() function in WordPress. The wp_list_comments() function is located in the comments.php file in your theme´s folder.
The wp_list_comments() purpose is to display all comments (including Trackbacks & Pingbacks) for posts based on a variety of parameters including ones set in the dashboard in Settings -> Discussion panel. Continue Reading »
In this tutorial, I will show you how to dynamically display an HTML Sitemap for Custom Post Types in WordPress without the need of a plugin. Dynamically means that the Sitemap updates automatically with every new Custom post added. Yes, there are plugins that add an HTML Sitemap to your blog. But I encourage you to read my previous post about unnecessarily adding plugins to your theme, and you don´t need a plugin for such a simple task. Continue Reading »
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2012
How To Display Author’s Comment Count in WordPress Without a Plugin
In this tutorial, I will show you how to display the number of comments an author has posted in the post´s comment section without the need of a plugin, as shown in the image below:
Everytime someone leaves a comment on any post, the Author´s comment total count will show up next to his/her name.
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Last Updated: March 20, 2014
Written by: Boutros AbiChedid
Tags: comment count, count comments by author, customization, How To, PHP, plugin killer, wordpress, wordpress comments, WordPress plugins
Posted in Category(ies): WordPress