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 »
WordPress Excerpt is a summary of your posts. In this tutorial, I will show you how to generate variable Length Excerpt that completes the sentence. Meaning that the Excerpt is not cut off mid-sentence. Also, I will show you how to preserve All, Some or None of the HTML formatting in the Excerpt, among several other features listed below. Continue Reading »
Securing your WordPress Website is critical in growing your online presence. As your Website becomes more popular it becomes more attractive to Crackers.
If you are looking for Security and Backup Plugins for your WordPress Website, then look no further. In this article, I share and review the Best 17 Free WordPress Security and Backup Plugins that don´t cost you anything. Continue Reading »
By default, WordPress blog automatically send a pingback to itself any time you link to one of your own internal old post. It would be nice if this self-pingback feature can be turned off in the dashboard.
Self-pings, or pings within your own blog, are found useful by some, annoying by others. Those who find them useful feel that self-pingbacks is a good approach to increase inter-linking between posts. Continue Reading »
In this tutorial, I will discuss the basics of Trackbacks and Pingbacks in WordPress. For now, remember that both are methods for blogs to communicate with each other. Trackbacks are more prone to spam than Pingbacks. All WordPress Websites are set up, by default, to send and receive pingbacks automatically.
If used properly, trackbacks and pingbacks are another way to increase traffic to your blog and build links. Continue Reading »
In this tutorial I will show you how to display the WordPress default allowed HTML Tags list for the comment form on your WordPress blog, as shown in the image below:
Also, I will show you how to modify the allowed HTML tags and attributes list to fit your needs. I will show you how to remove tags from the default list and how to add HTML tags to the list for the Comment textarea in WordPress. Continue Reading »
May
2012
How To Redirect First Time Commenters in WordPress Without a Plugin
In this tutorial, I will show you two separate codes on how to Redirect all your WordPress Commenters to a Thank You page, and also how to only Redirect your First Time Commenters to a Thank You Page without the need of a plugin.
This tutorial is for you, if you are asking one of these 2 questions:
Last Updated: March 20, 2014
Written by: Boutros AbiChedid
Tags: custom, How To, plugin killer, redirect comments, redirect first comment, Tips and Tricks, wordpress, wordpress comments, WordPress plugins
Posted in Category(ies): WordPress