Posts Tagged ‘WordPress plugins’

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:

  1. How can I get ALL my WordPress commenters to redirect to a fancy “Thank You” page. Continue Reading »

How To Obfuscate Email Addresses in WordPress Without a Plugin

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 »

How To Create a Variable Length Excerpt in WordPress Without a Plugin

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 »

Top 17 Free WordPress Security and Backup Plugins

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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 »

How To Disable Self Pingbacks in WordPress Without a Plugin

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 »

How To Add HTML Sitemap For Custom Post Types in WordPress

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 »

How To Add Sortable Custom Columns in WordPress Dashboard

In a previous tutorial, I showed you how to display a plain, non-sortable “Views” Column for Posts in the WordPress Dashboard. In this tutorial, I will show you how to make that “Views” Custom Column Sortable for Posts, ascending or descending based on the number of post views.

A WordPress developer asked me the following question: Is there a way to make the “Views” Custom Column sortable in the WordPress dashboard? Continue Reading »

How To Display Most Commented Posts in WordPress Without a Plugin

Do you want to show your Most Commented Posts on your Blog? In this tutorial, I will show you how to display your most popular posts (based on Comments) in WordPress Without a Plugin. Probably you already have seen Blogs displaying the Most Commented Posts and you wonder how it is done.

Yes, there are plugins that display the most popular posts on your blog, but they all tend to do a lot more than you need. Continue Reading »

How To Display Most Viewed Posts in WordPress Without a Plugin

Do you want to show your Most Viewed Posts on your Blog? In this tutorial, I will show you how to display your most popular posts (based on Views) in WordPress Without a Plugin. Probably you already have seen Blogs displaying the Most Viewed Posts and you wonder how it is done.

This tutorial is a natural progression from my previous tutorial: How To Track & Display Post Views Count in WordPress Without a Plugin. Continue Reading »

How To Track & Display Post Views Count in WordPress Without a Plugin

Do you want to know how many times a post has been viewed on your Blog? In this tutorial, I will show you how to count post views and display it on your WordPress Blog and also in the dashboard without the need of a plugin. Probably you already have seen some Blogs displaying a View Counter for each post and you wonder how it is done. Continue Reading »