Stop WordPress From Compressing JPEG Images

According to some blogs, WordPress automatically compress your JPEG images to 90% quality, but this information is false.This only happens on the resized images WordPress creates. The original uploaded image is saved unaltered, as the "full" size.Anyways, you can stop compressing of JPEG images by putting following code into your functions.php file: add_filter('jpeg_quality', function($arg){return...

Google: How Fast Is Our Hummingbird

15 years have past since Google Search first appeared on the stage. Back in 1998 the searching process was far from perfection:  the huge machine called computer is on, the user type in keywords into the search system and the system manages to find several websites with the required information. Now it sounds funny, but at that time it was a miracle! The whole process and the devices have...

Remove Author Prefix From Slug In WordPress

Earlier this month I shared an article about changing WordPress Author URL Slug. That code will change the default yoursite.com/author/name to yoursite.com/profile/name. Now this trick will remove the author prefix from the author slug. To clarify, this snippet will help you turn: yoursite.com/author/name/ into: yoursite.com/name/. Just add following snippet to your functions.php file: // The...

Detect And Redirect Android Users With .htaccess

Last night I shared a trick to redirect Android users to your Android/mobile website with a simple PHP snippet. It's time to do the same with .htaccess file. Android is the most used smart phone platform right now, and is a hot topic for developers.Add this following code to your .htaccess file to redirect users with Android User Agent to a specific address: RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Android.*$RewriteRule...

Detect And Redirect Android Users With PHP

Here is a simple trick to redirect Android users with some simple PHP script. It's a useful snippet if you have an Android version of your website.Add following PHP to your document to search and redirect Android user agents: $ua = strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);if(stripos($ua,'android') !== false) { // && stripos($ua,'mobile') !== false) {    header('Location: http://android.yourwebsite.com');   ...

Allow Contributors To Upload Images In WordPress

Are you running a WordPress website with bunch of contributors who are willing to post on your website? If yes then this article contains a great tip for you. As I mention on previous articles, every post on your blog must contain at least one image related to the article. It's really great for SEO and other things. This code will help us to allow users with contributor role to upload images on...

How To Disable Smart/Curly Quotes In WordPress

There are lot of word processor programs which itself converts all yours simple quotes to curly quotes (aka s mart quotes). It looks like small figures six and nine raised above the baseline (like 6...9 and 66...99).It's a huge problem if you're writing codes in your posts as WordPress automatically converts all quote symbols to smart quotes. So if anyone is copying a snippet from your blog post...

Send Email Notifications When User Submit A Post In WordPress

Are you running a multi-author WordPress blog or a blog with guest posters with contributor role to submit the post directly from the WordPress dashboard? Then you must be looking for a way to get email notification when someone submit a post or when you publish or reject their post. We previously shares some great scripts to get email notifications for a couple of events, but this time it's a...

Prevent Directory Browsing With .htaccess

I recently shared several articles about .htaccess file, and as you may know by now, it's a great file if you're working on the security of your site. Today we'll disable the directory browsing in our website with some editing in .htaccess file. You know how you can change a few characters in a URL and continue browsing the website. Sometimes, it could be very dangerous for our website, so it's...

How To Remove Footer Credits From Jetpack Mobile Theme In WordPress

Jetpack is a great plugin for WordPress to connect your blog to WordPress.com. It also gives us dozens of crappy great plugins for our blog, such as mobile module, social share, wp.me short links, and more. Jetpack's Mobile module is great plugin to create a mobile version of your website for mobile users, but it comes with a footer credit: Proudly powered by WordPress. Giving WordPress their...

Protect Your wp-config.php File With .htaccess

As a webmaster, it's our duty to take care of our website. And security is our #1 priority when it comes to take care of a blog. As we know, there are millions of security issues with WordPress, which can be solved with some simple things, such as security plugins, configuring our .htaccess file, etc. Today we'll secure our wp-config.php file with some basic .htaccess editing. Add following code...

Optimize And Repair WordPress Database

In WordPress 2.9, WordPress gave us a new automatic database repair feature. This feature enables you to repair and optimize your database. You should use this feature time to time to take care of your website's home. You can use this feature even when you're not logged in to your website. This is because its main intent is to repair a corrupted database, Users can often not login to their WordPress...

Send Email Notifications When User Role Changes In WordPress

Yesterday I shared a code which sends an email to the user when the user updates their profile. Today I have something similar, but a bit different. This code sends an email the user when the user's role has changed. It's a great way to let a member know about the role changes that you'll make. It's also a great trick if you're running a WordPress site with bbPress forum or multiple wirters &...

Increase Maximum Upload File Size Limit In WordPress

Sometimes, you need to upload a large file to your site. If you run a WordPress site with audio podcasts, videos, and .zip files, then you may need to increase WordPress' default 32mb limit. There are lot of ways around the internet to increase your WordPress max upload file size, but most of them are not much hardy. But a little snippet by Word Impressed can solve your problem. You can easily...

Send Email Notifications When User Profile Updates In WordPress

Adding this snippet to your functions.php file will send an email to the user when the user updates their profile. It's really great way to provide more security to your users. It's also a great trick if you're running a WordPress site with BuddyPress or bbPress. It makes your website look more advance, and keeps your user secure from hackers. Just add following to your functions.php: function...

Restrict Access To WordPress Media Uploads

Ever wanted to restrict access WordPress media upload mime/format? Yes, that's why you guys are reading this post. You can perform this trick with directories such as /uploads/, /upgrade/, and /backups/. All you need a .htaccess file for the directory. Create an .htaccess file for your /uploads/ directory (or use existing file if present). Add following code to the .htaccess file: # restrict...

Add QR Code For Posts And Pages In WordPress

QR Code (Quick Response Code) is a great way to promote your content, and is very easy for users to use them. They can visit a webpage without even typing the entire web address. Just scan the QR Code and that's it. The QR code system was invented in 1994 by Toyota's subsidiary, Denso Wave. Its purpose was to track vehicles during manufacture; it was designed to allow high-speed component scanning.[ Would...

How To Hide Post View And Post Preview Buttons From WordPress Post Editor

Ever wanted to remove "preview post" & "view post" option from the WordPress' post editor? Here is the solution how to do this. Just add following snippet to your theme's functions.php file and don't forget to update the post type array in the following code: function posttype_admin_css() {     global $post_type;     $post_types = array(                        ...

How To Remove URL Field From WordPress Comment Form

For some WordPress sites, such as themes, review, and all, you may want to remove Website URL field from the WordPress' comment form. Removing the field could be used for product reviews or if they created a support tickets theme that does not require a url field. It's not much hard to remove/unset the website url from the comment form. Just add following snippet to your functions.php file and...

Change Post Color By Status In WordPress Admin Panel

It's a great trick if you manage a WordPress site with multiple writers/contributors.It's a great trick if you manage a WordPress site with multiple writers/contributors. Adding this snippet to your theme's functions.php file will change the background colors of the post / page within the admin based on the current status. Draft, Pending, Published, Future, Private. add_action('admin_footer','posts_status_color');function...

How To Login To WordPress Using Your Username Or Email Address

By default, WordPress only allows us to login to WordPress powered sites only with our username. But most of us prefer to enter our email address to login because remembering your email is more simple than usernames. C. Bavota from bavotasan.com found a great way to allow your users to use either their username or email address to log into WordPress without any plugin. Just add following code...

How To Change WordPress Author URL Slug

In WordPress, an author's profile is by default accessible by using the yoursite.com/author/name. But it's really easy to change the default author url slug/base. All be just need is a simple snippet. Kevin Chard found a great code to change the default yoursite.com/author/name to yoursite.com/profile/name. Just add following snippet to your functions.php file: add_action('init', 'cng_author_base'); function...

Add Short URL Below Posts In WordPress Without Plugins

Previously I shared a post on this blog about adding a Short Link Widget Below Posts In Blogger, which is a great tutorial for Blogger admins. But I never shared anything like that for WordPress blogs. There are a lot of plugins to add this short link widget below your posts, but we're going to do this without any crappy plugin. Plus, instead of going with one short link service, you can choose...

5 Professions For Being A Good Blogger

Before moving to very specific nuances of blogging every new person in this field of Internet acting should consider certain basic things. We are talking about that skills which are greatly required for a successful blogging career. These five professions are truly advised to master for a proficient blogger. Profession #1 A Writer: The ability to compose a text is the most important skil for...

How To Change WordPress From Name And Email Address

In many actions, such as registration, password request, plugins and more, WordPress sends email to your users and readers. The default sender name is "WordPress" and the default sender email address is wordpress@yoursite.com. If you're working on a client site, then I guess he wouldn't like WordPress' default sender name and address. However, it's extremely easy to change the default values to...

How To Disable HTML In WordPress Comments

I really hate spammers. They make me sick with their spam comments with all the bold text and hyperlinks. I know that I'm not the only one with this crappy problem, since spammers are everywhere these days. Some of them should write a book about "The life of a Spammer." You can easily disable HTML in WordPress Comments.So if someone uses the strong code, it will not bold the text etc. It's really...

Prevent Image Hotlinking With .htaccess

Image courtesy of markinns.com Ever wonder how someone stealing your images, directly taking the URL and display on their own website can effect your bandwidths? This is what we call image hotlinking. With every single view of our images on their site cost us bandwidths. Because it's called directly from our server. Not sure about you, but I paid for this bandwidths (not for this site). Just like...

Hide Dashboard Login Errors In WordPress

In this tutorial, I'm going to show how you can easily hide login errors in WordPress. It's a great way to protect from WordPress from hackers. Whenever you login with the correct username but with the wrong password, a message appears saying "Error: Incorrect Password." WordPress has now given a clue to hacker that the username entered is in the system, and that they simply need to crack its password....

How To Automatically Empty Trash In WordPress

The Trash feature was introduced in WordPress 2.7, and since then, if you click "Trash" for any item, it will be sent to the trash. It works similar to the Recycling Bin feature on Windows. By default, the content you trash remains there for 30 days before being permanently deleted. However, you can also delete items from the Trash at any time. You can also modify the 30 day period with some simple...