Archive for 2011

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 »

Top Three Tools for Testing Website Speed and Performance

The speed and performance of your Website has quickly become one of the most definitive aspects of successful blogging. As we have all experienced, our society today is rapidly becoming obsessed with speed and instant gratification. With the internet so heavily involved in our everyday lives, the speed and performance of your Websites is essential to holding readership and gaining more traffic. 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 »

13 Best Free Blogging Platforms

This is my thirteenth post in this series. It is a handy list, a one stop shop if you like, of the best free blogging software platforms available nowadays.

There are many blogging platforms available and it can get confusing and difficult to figure out the best ones. But after an extensive research, reviews and trying few of them, below are the best free blog publishing tools. Continue Reading »

26 Best Free Content Management Systems (CMS)

And you thought there are only three. This is my Twelfth post in this series. It is a convenient list, a one stop shop if you like, of the best free self-hosted Content Management Systems available these days.

There are many Content Management Systems available and it can get confusing and difficult to figure out the best ones. Continue Reading »

17 Best Free PHP Frameworks

This is my eleventh post in this series. It is a convenient list, a one stop shop if you like, of the best free PHP frameworks available today for your next Web project.

There are many PHP frameworks available and it can get confusing and difficult to figure out the best ones. But after an extensive research, reviews and personally trying couple of them, below are the best free PHP frameworks available nowadays. Continue Reading »