Canonical links for comments
Duplicate content is one of the most discussed topics in terms of SEO. Happilly, with the new rel=’canonical’ attribute, you can now reduce risks of duplicate content. Here is how to implement it for your comments pages, on your WordPress blog.
Using Cron to schedule events in your WordPress blog
You probably know that WordPress can schedule events. In this recipe, I’ll show you how you create an event that will be executed once hourly, or daily, etc.
WordPress hook: Disable posts auto saving
WordPress have a very useful function that autosaves your posts while you’re typing them in the dashboard. Though, if for some reason you’d like to disable this function, it is very easy to do. Just read on!
Display Thumbnails For Related Posts in Wordpress
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to increase page views by adding thumbnails to related posts using the popular YARPP plugin and Wordpress custom fields.
How to Display Ratings with Wordpress Links
Give your links some extra importance using a commonly overlooked feature in Wordpress.
Detect if a post has at least one image
On a WordPress blog, it can be really handy to be able to know if a post has at least one image or not, for example for grabbing the first image and display it. This small code snippet do it, so just read on.
WordPress shortcode: Automatically insert image by file name
Shortcodes are always a good solution when you need to achieve a specific task. In this recipe, let’s see how we can insert an image in a post, simply by using a shortcode and the filename.
Add a login form on your WordPress Theme
Nothing hard at all. Simply paste the following code where you’d like to display your login form. (For example, on your blog sidebar, or on a page template).
10 Tips to Improve Your WordPress Theme
After finishing up with the new design for WPShout, here are ten tips I’ve got to improve your WordPress theme.
Full-featured comments.php template for Wordpress
Full comments.php file with many hacks to make it even more flexible.
Separating Trackbacks from Comments
The method described here will lift out all of the trackbacks, and then display them as a numbered list after the list of comments is finished.
How To Make Your Own Default Avatar in 5 Minutes
many people don’t have an avatar, so the result is usually a stack of default gray avatars in your comments area. The same gray avatar you see on every other blog with Gravatars. It only takes a few minutes to make your own, branded avatar.
Storing $wp_query for future use
When working with WordPress queries, it may be very useful to be able to clone, store and restore $wp_query. This is exactly what we’re going to see in this recipe.
WordPress function to display your posts words count
Function that can display the word count of a post content.
