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...