In this tutorial, I will show you how to easily redirect your visitors to a temporary maintenance page without the need of a plugin. The custom maintenance page lets your visitors know that your WordPress Website (or blog) is down for maintenance. Logged-in administrators will still have full access to the Website while visitors see a customized maintenance message. Continue Reading »
In this tutorial, I will show you how to dynamically display an HTML sitemap for your WordPress blog without the need of a plugin. Dynamically means that the sitemap updates automatically with every new post and other blog changes. 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. Continue Reading »
In this tutorial, I will show you how to easily turn your WordPress blog from the default NoFollow to a DoFollow blog without the need of a plugin. Why not turn your blog into a DoFollow blog and get more visitors, more traffic and eventualy more recognition in the Online community. Probably you already have seen some blogs displaying the DoFollow image and you wonder how it is done and what it really means. Continue Reading »
Are you tired of the default WordPress Login screen? Would you like to customize the Login screen for your WordPress Website or your customers´? In this tutorial, I will show you how to easily Customize WordPress Login screen, to standout from the crowd, without the need of a plugin. Specifically, I will explain how to replace the default WordPress logo in the Login screen with your Logo or your customers´ Logo for a more professional look and better branding. Continue Reading »
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 »
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 »