WordPress Daddy » Hacks http://www.wordpressdaddy.com Father of all WordPress Blogs! Sat, 13 Feb 2010 09:14:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Insert Google Analytics without editing your theme http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/insert-google-analytics-without-editing-your-theme.htm http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/insert-google-analytics-without-editing-your-theme.htm#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:27:09 +0000 Shabu Anower http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/?p=1620 Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design Blog

Insert Google Analytics without editing your theme

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]]> I like to use Google Analytics, but the boring stuff is that when you switch themes, you’ll have to re-insert the code in the new theme. To avoid it, let’s use the power of WordPress hook to insert our analytics code without editing theme files.

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Insert Google Analytics without editing your theme

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Better page navigation

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]]> With the previous_posts_link() and next_posts_link() functions, WordPress allows you to link previous and next pages. But if the reader reached out the last page, what about providing him a link to the blog archive instead of nothing?

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Better page navigation

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]]> http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/better-page-navigation.htm/feed/ 0 How to define your own dashboard logo http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/how-to-define-your-own-dashboard-logo.htm http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/how-to-define-your-own-dashboard-logo.htm#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:54:48 +0000 Shabu Anower http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/?p=1617 Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design Blog

How to define your own dashboard logo

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]]> By default, the “W” WordPress logo is displayed on the top left side of the dashboard. If for some reason, you’”d like to add your own logo, just read this recipe.

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How to define your own dashboard logo

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Customize WordPress login logo without a plugin

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]]> WordPress login logo looks nice, but sometimes you may want to change it, for example when building a site for a client. In that case, you can use a plugin, or simply take advantage of this cool hack.

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Customize WordPress login logo without a plugin

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]]> http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/customize-wordpress-login-logo-without-a-plugin.htm/feed/ 0 How to check if a page template is active http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/how-to-check-if-a-page-template-is-active.htm http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/how-to-check-if-a-page-template-is-active.htm#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:45:36 +0000 Shabu Anower http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/?p=1612 Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design Blog

How to check if a page template is active

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]]> Conditional tags are very useful when you need to know if you’re on a post, page, homepage, etc. But how to know if you’re are on a specific page template? Nothing hard, just use the following recipe.

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How to check if a page template is active

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]]> http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/how-to-check-if-a-page-template-is-active.htm/feed/ 0 Block external requests on your WordPress blog http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/block-external-requests-on-your-wordpress-blog.htm http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/block-external-requests-on-your-wordpress-blog.htm#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:44:39 +0000 Shabu Anower http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/?p=1610 Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design Blog

Block external requests on your WordPress blog

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]]> For some reason, your WordPress blog can send some info to external sources, as such as Automattic, the company behind WordPress. Although you don’t really have to worry about it in my opinion, you can block those requests with the following technique.

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Block external requests on your WordPress blog

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]]> http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/block-external-requests-on-your-wordpress-blog.htm/feed/ 0 How to remove menus in WordPress dashboard http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/how-to-remove-menus-in-wordpress-dashboard.htm http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/how-to-remove-menus-in-wordpress-dashboard.htm#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:37:09 +0000 Shabu Anower http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/?p=1608 Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design Blog

How to remove menus in WordPress dashboard

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]]> I’m going to show you how you can easily remove menus in the WordPress dashboard. This can be really useful when building a WP site for a client.

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How to remove menus in WordPress dashboard

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]]> http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/how-to-remove-menus-in-wordpress-dashboard.htm/feed/ 0 How to disable image caption in WordPress post editor http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/how-to-disable-image-caption-in-wordpress-post-editor.htm http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/how-to-disable-image-caption-in-wordpress-post-editor.htm#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:35:25 +0000 Shabu Anower http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/?p=1606 Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design Blog

How to disable image caption in WordPress post editor

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]]> For each uploaded image, WordPress lets you enter a caption to describe the file. This is very cool, but sometimes you don’t need captions at all. Here is how you can get rid of it.

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How to disable image caption in WordPress post editor

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]]> http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/how-to-disable-image-caption-in-wordpress-post-editor.htm/feed/ 0 Get most commented posts with thumbnails http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/get-most-commented-posts-with-thumbnails.htm http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/get-most-commented-posts-with-thumbnails.htm#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:33:52 +0000 Shabu Anower http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/?p=1604 Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design Blog

Get most commented posts with thumbnails

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]]> In order to help your visitors finding your best content, bloggers often display their most commented posts on their blog’s sidebar. In this recipe, I’ll show you how you can get most commented posts along with their related thumbnail.

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Get most commented posts with thumbnails

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How to change the dashboard footer text

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]]> When building a site for a client, it can be useful to be able to modify the dashboard footer text. This recipe is going to show you how you can easily do it using a hook.

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How to change the dashboard footer text

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]]> http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/how-to-change-the-dashboard-footer-text.htm/feed/ 0 Display most recent comments with Gravatar http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/display-most-recent-comments-with-gravatar.htm http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/display-most-recent-comments-with-gravatar.htm#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:31:00 +0000 Shabu Anower http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/?p=1600 Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design Blog

Display most recent comments with Gravatar

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]]> Is your blog popular? Do you got receive lots of comments from your readers? If yes, what about displaying the most recent comments in your blog sidebar (or elsewhere) to let your visitors knowing about the discussion?

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Display most recent comments with Gravatar

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]]> http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/display-most-recent-comments-with-gravatar.htm/feed/ 0 Automatically output the content in two columns http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/automatically-output-the-content-in-two-columns.htm http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/automatically-output-the-content-in-two-columns.htm#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:40:15 +0000 Shabu Anower http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/?p=1551 Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design Blog

Automatically output the content in two columns

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]]> Printed magazines often display text in columns, so why blogs shouldn’t be able to do the same? Just read on to find out how to easily and automatically display your post content in columns.

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Automatically output the content in two columns

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]]> http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/automatically-output-the-content-in-two-columns.htm/feed/ 0 Display the number of tweets for each page or post http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/display-the-number-of-tweets-for-each-page-or-post.htm http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/display-the-number-of-tweets-for-each-page-or-post.htm#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:38:25 +0000 Shabu Anower http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/?p=1549 Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design Blog

Display the number of tweets for each page or post

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]]> Twitter is a very cool tool, especially if you’re a blogger. Using some PHP it is easy to display how many times a specific blog post has been tweeted. This is what you’re going to learn in this recipe.

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Display the number of tweets for each page or post

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]]> http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/display-the-number-of-tweets-for-each-page-or-post.htm/feed/ 0 Send article to a friend by email http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/send-article-to-a-friend-by-email.htm http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/send-article-to-a-friend-by-email.htm#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:36:39 +0000 Shabu Anower http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/?p=1547 Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design Blog

Send article to a friend by email

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]]> In order to create more traffic on your blog, it can be a good idea to let your readers send your posts to their friends by email. A few month ago, I already shown you a function to do that, here is an improved version for today.

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Send article to a friend by email

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Rewrite author name with custom field

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]]> In my other blog Cats Who Blog, I have demonstrated how being a guest blogger is definitely a great way to gain new readers. In order to give your guest authors some credits, you should definitely implement this easy tip.

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Rewrite author name with custom field

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]]> http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/rewrite-author-name-with-custom-field.htm/feed/ 0 How to show WordPress post attachments http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/how-to-show-wordpress-post-attachments.htm http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/how-to-show-wordpress-post-attachments.htm#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:20:12 +0000 Shabu Anower http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/?p=1542 Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design Blog

How to show WordPress post attachments

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]]> Since WordPress 2.5, attachments management in WordPress have been improved and is now very powerful. Today, I’m going to show you a simple code snippet that you can use in your WordPress theme to display post attachments.

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How to show WordPress post attachments

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]]> http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/how-to-show-wordpress-post-attachments.htm/feed/ 0 Multiple Sidebars the Right Way http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/multiple-sidebars-the-right-way.htm http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/multiple-sidebars-the-right-way.htm#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:09:37 +0000 Shabu Anower http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/?p=1534 Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design Blog

Multiple Sidebars the Right Way

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]]> WordPress has a better way, a built in better way for using multiple sidebar. In this post you’ll learn how to add multiple sidebars the right way.

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Multiple Sidebars the Right Way

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Awesome SEO With Custom Fields

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]]> SEO is something I’ve discussed before here on WPShout, but here we’re going to dive into a slightly more specific area: post titles, urls and title tags.

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Awesome SEO With Custom Fields

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]]> http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/awesome-seo-with-custom-fields.htm/feed/ 0 Custom Fields for HTML Post Titles http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/custom-fields-for-html-post-titles.htm http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/wordpress-hacks/custom-fields-for-html-post-titles.htm#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:01:26 +0000 Shabu Anower http://www.wordpressdaddy.com/?p=1436 Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design Blog

Custom Fields for HTML Post Titles

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]]> I was wishing for a plugin to handle this better, but until then, here is almost-as-simple way to go about it.

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Custom Fields for HTML Post Titles

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10 WordPress hacks to make more money online

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]]> WordPress can be used in a wide variety of ways: Photoblog, online magazine, classified site… And with all that power, WordPress can also help you to make more money online than a simple site or a blogger blog.

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10 WordPress hacks to make more money online

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