Remove HTML Tags and Attributes in WordPress Comments

Bu default WordPress comments have instructions for users on how to use HTML tags and attributes in the actual comments, many users are turned off by this, here is how to remove HTML Tags and Attributes section in the post comments…

Remove Featured Image from Post in Twenty Twelve WordPress Theme

Twenty Twelve WordPress Theme sets a big old ‘Featured  Image’ on top of the post content  if the featured image is set in a post. To remove the Featured Image from this area but keep it intact for excerpts where…

Making Custom Social Media Images for Share Links in WordPress

There are many Social Media Share link plugins for WordPress that do a great job, but not many that allow you to use a custom image that you may have designed for Facebook, Twitter or Google to use with the…

Upgrade MySQL Database from 5.5 to 5.6 on macOS 10.8 Mountain Lion

Remove Mysql Databse Macos

MySQL version 5.6.14 is available for download for OSX, a double click and install is available named Mac OS X ver. 10.7 (x86, 64-bit), DMG Archive. (Don’t worry about the 10.7 naming, Works fine in OSX 10.9 and OSX 10.8)Stop the…

Remove the WordPress Reset Lost Password Link on Login Page

To remove the reset ‘Lost Your Password’ link and function on the WordPress login page you need to add a function to your themes functions.php file and add in some CSS. The reason why both are needed as the forgot ‘Lost Your…

Secure the WP Admin Folder in WordPress Using htaccess

To protect your WordPress wp-admin folder from everyone else apart from you, you can add a htaccess file in the /wp-admin folder to allow only access from your IP address and everyone else will be denied and receive a ‘Page…

Add HTML [br] break tag to a Widget Title in WordPress

By default you can’t add HTML to a Widget Title in WordPress, such as a break tag <br>, you can get around this by adding a filter to allow shortcode to the title area…. In functions.php file in your child…

How to Create Custom WordPress Template Posts, Pages, Headers, Footers and Sidebars

How to create new Wordpress templates for your theme including posts, pages, headers, footers and sidebars. To change the WordPress home page edit the index.php in the main theme  if using a child theme, just copy and then edit the file in…

Making Full Width Headers and Footers in WordPress TwentyTwelve Theme

How to create a full width header and footer in WordPress’s responsive Twenty Twelve theme. Example Site. Create a Child Theme First up  you should really create and work from a Child Theme Make Header and Footer Copies to Child…

Find and replace text across a whole WordPress web site using phpMyAdmin

You can do a find and replace for text or html code on a post or page across a whole WordPress site by using the mysql database that the site stores all its data in. First up you need to…