Set WordPress Permalinks Settings From functions.php

Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual WordPress or blog posts, as well as pages and other lists of blog postings. It's very important to have an easy and beautiful permalinks structure for your site, as it's a part of optimizing your site for SEO. The default WordPress permalinks structure looks something like this: http://www.whatever.com/?p=316 And I hate this as much as you...

Using A Different Post Template For Posts Within A Specific Category

On Thursday I posted an article about using different post template for posts formats, but now it's time for doing the same thing with categories, instead of formats. You can use this trick in your WordPress to create different type of posts, such as portfolio items. We discussed everything previously, so let's get into this trick: Using A Different Post Template: In this tutorial, we'll create...

Using A Different Post Template For Posts Formats In WordPress

Post Formats is a theme feature which was introduced with the WordPress 3.1 release. It gave us a new feature to style posts based on its format. If you ever used WordPress' default themes, then you might know about their different post templates based on the post format. So it's time for you to style your posts based on its format. Here's a demo of this trick from my own WordPress site: This is...

Add Post Formats To WordPress Theme

It's school holiday for five days in a row, so as a part of the second day of this holiday, I was doing some random stuff around the internet, such as listing to new songs, reading about upcoming Next-Gen gaming consoles, browsing troll memes, blaming Justin Bieber, and more. So in this busy day I took some time to edit my WordPress website for new feature. I did some thing new (at least for me)...

Change WordPress Login Logo Without Plugins

Above is a screen shot of the login page of my WordPress website. As you can see in above image, I'm using my website's logo in the login page instead of WordPress logo. And it looks pretty good.If you're running a website with public registration or a client website, then you should replace the default logo with your own. There are lots of plugins to change the custom logo in some easy steps. However,...

How To Set Minimum Word Count For WordPress Posts

If you're running a WordPress site with some co-authors then it's really important for you to focus on your content's quality. Quality content is the ultimate key to success in blogging. Most of bloggers write like a monkey in the very beginning; I was also in that league when I started this blog. Since recent Google updates you can no longer post an article with some couple of words and expect...

How To Set Minimum Comment Length In WordPress

Most of us turn on comments in our sites to start a discussion and reach out more people. But some people comment just to get a link back to their own site. Their comments will consist of things like "nice post", "thanks" and all stuff. If you're running a big website, then moderating these crappy comments will waste a lot of time. So how about setting a minimum character count length on your comments. Add...

Bulk Remove Featured Images From WordPress Posts

By default, there's no such option in WordPress to remove featured image from all posts at once. You can only remove the featured image by editing each post and removing it manually. It can take a lot of time. For example, it's almost impossible to manually remove featured images from my WWEFansNation.com with more than 4,000 posts. But that's all right cuz we're here to solve this problem. WPBeginner...

Automatically Set The Featured Image In WordPress

Almost every WordPress theme developer is using WordPress' featured post image option in their latest themes, and it's a very great option. You can pick any image for your article before publishing But ofter we forget to pick a featured image for out posts. Also there's no way to pick a featured image in WordPress' smartphone application. So today we're going to automatically set the featured image. This...

Move WordPress Admin Bar To The Bottom

Ever wanted to move your WordPress blog's Admin Bar to bottom of the page? If yes, then this is the right place for you. It sounds like a telemall commercial, lol. With just a bit CSS you can change it. So instead of editing the core CSS files, we'll add some CSS to your functions.php file. Put this little snippet to a Plugin or in the functions.php of your theme:  function fb_move_admin_bar()...

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...

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...

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 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 &...

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...

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...