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 sharing link of the post or page, instead you are stuck with the default ones.…
Read MoreRemove 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 Password‘ link appears in 2 areas as a link in the bottom of the dialog box…
Read MoreSecure 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 Not Found‘ 404 error. This ensures no-one can even get to the login screen which…
Read MoreAdd 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 theme add: add_filter(‘widget_title’, ‘do_shortcode’); add_shortcode(‘br’, ‘ng_shortcode_breaktag’); function ng_shortcode_break( $attr ){ return ‘<br />’; } Now…
Read MoreHow 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 your child theme folder alternatively you can create/edit front-page.php – this will take priority over the index.php To make a…
Read MoreMaking 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 Theme Copy your header.php and footer.php files from twentytwelve to your twentytwelvechild theme folder. Your…
Read MoreFind 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 connect to the database, if you have a cPanel/Plesk style hosting typically you will have…
Read MoreResponsively Removing Width and Height Attributes on Images and wp-caption on WordPress
If you are looking to go responsive for images on your site and want a theme that responds to various devices such as tablets and mobiles there are a couple of issues to sort out with existing hard coded images that have hard coded inline style width and height attributes. In WordPress not only do you…
Read MoreMaking RSS Feed Links no-follow in WordPress Sidebar
If you use the RSS widget in WordPress to bring in a Feed with multiple external links that go to external content and that update in the sidebar. You may notice that all these links have the attribute set to ‘follow‘ by default. This can be detrimental to your page’s SEO status in terms of…
Read MoreHow to change the header size in TwentyEleven and TwentyTen
To change the header size in width or height or both of the TwentyEleven or TwentyTen theme in WordPress you need to add a snippet of code to the ‘functions.php’ file in your parent theme or child theme – the preference is to make a child theme and create/change the functions.php file in there. The reason for this is…
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