Why Password Reset Doesn’t Work on Localhost? The term localhost is used to describe a local server that is not available to the general public. For example: your personal computer. Many WordPress users install WordPress on localhost (in their computer) to test changes, design websites, try out new plugins, and even learn WordPress. Now here…

How to Add Buttons in WordPress Without Using Shortcodes Most people are not familiar with HTML/CSS. This is why WordPress plugins are so useful for adding tables or buttons. There are lots of plugins out there which allow you to add buttons to your posts and pages using shortcodes. But those shortcodes are difficult to…

How to Change Author URL Slug and Base in WordPress WordPress comes with built-in support for SEO friendly URL structure, also known as pretty permalinks. This feature allows you to choose URLs for your posts, pages, and categories by editing their slugs. However, WordPress does not allow you to choose a slug for author pages….

There are two kinds of blogs: those worth reading, and those that shouldn’t even exist. If your sole purpose of a blog has always been for SEO reasons then you probably fall into the latter category. This should be the year you decide to scrap it or do something different because a better strategy will…

Troubleshooting WordPress.. Have you heard the old joke: Patient: Doctor, it hurts when I do this. Doctor: Then don’t do that! With advanced troubleshooting it’s exactly the opposite! You want to be able to reliably reproduce your symptoms. Knowing exactly how to recreate the problem will be a huge help in figuring out how to…

Welcome to the end of the series! As we have done with other series, I find it useful to bring it all together and summarize the articles in one last post. So in this post, we’re going to do exactly that. The Basics We started off with some basic stuff such as the WordPress APIs…

In the previous part of this series, we reviewed what to avoid when making a WordPress theme. It is an important article because it’s really easy to make those mistakes. And in this article, we’re going to go through the things we need to do after making our theme. You should keep in mind that…

How to Fix WordPress Post Pagination Hiding Content in RSS Feed WordPress post pagination is still hiding the full content of your RSS feed. After doing some quick research, it turns out that this is a WordPress core bug (#10984) that was reported 4 years ago and is still not fixed!!! In this article, we…

If you want to offer videos or audios for download, or actually any file type on your WordPress site, but you do not want the links to be leeched on other sites, you might be interested in this free WordPress plugin; S3Media LinkSafe Lite 1.0. It creates expiring links to files on your S3 bucket…

Making a theme for WordPress is easier than ever these days (in theory, an index.php file and a style.css file is all you need!). But if you plan to be the creator of a good theme, a perfect WordPress theme, you need to train hard. What Makes a Theme Great? Seriously, what makes a theme…

Avoid WordPress from Reducing the Quality of Your Uploaded Images You might not have noticed but the fact is WordPress by default displays .jpeg image format with only 90% of the quality of the original uploaded image, This is a measure to speed up your website without causing much chaos Though this is not a…

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WordPress 3.7 is out and there are some cool new features in it. This release is mainly focused on improving security and stability of WordPress. One such improvement is the auto update system. Since 3.7, a typical WordPress install will now be able to automatically update itself when there is a new minor/security release available…

WordPress allows you to enter your contact information on the user profile. For example, you can enter your aim or jabber screenname. WordPress developers have probably forgotten the fact that most people now use Facebook/Google Plus/Twitter/LinkedIn etc. I will show you a very simple and efficient method to add new contact fields to your user…

This tiny piece of code works wonders! It automatically empties your WordPress Site’s Trash Bin.

If you have ever faced an error that reads “Allowed memory size of xxx bytes exhausted”, then you will have to increase the WordPress memory limit.

Adding this PHP code to the functions.php of your wordpress theme will remove the post excerpt metabox from the wordpress admin.

Have you ever wanted your visitors to post their views and engage them? Want to learn a trick which would increase competition among visitors to post more and more? Well, the best and simple thing you can do is – Display a list of top commentors on your blog.

Introduced in WordPress 3.3, the admin bar is a better version of the “Toolbar” which came with WordPress 3.0. The admin bar is useful only when you’re the blog admin though. When you’re a simple contributor, you don’t really need it. So why not get rid of it, except for admins?

WordPress (Sonny) version 3.3 was just released few days back. I like it. Then I disabled the admin-bar. Clicked “Update Profile”. Great! Hey, wait a minute. The admin-bar is still there!? What the Sonny!!

Avatars are the tiny images next to the author or commentator name in the comments section of your blog posts. Avatars are popular as they help in identification of the person who is commenting. We can also make them brandable. With services like gravatar it has become really easy to use avatars.

There are few of ways to install WordPress, and you should do it in a way thats easy for you. Some hosts have “one-click” installs via application like “Softaculous” that install WordPress for you. You can also install it manually with an FTP client or Shell access.