If you write original content day in and day out, you already are aware of the fact that your posts will end up on bunch of SPAM sites within a few days sometimes even few minutes. Some users even noted that the site with stolen content outranked the original post. It is very frustrating as a website owner to see that someone is stealing your content without permission, monetizing it, outranking you in SERPs, and stealing your audience. Content Scraping... (more...)
Managing a multi-author blog is a hard task on its own. It gets even harder during the maintenance times and site migrations. We have helped migrate numerous multi-author blogs to different hosting account, and the single biggest challenge was to keep everyone from making any new changes. We had to notify everyone multiple times to make sure that everyone got the memo. Well, recently we discovered a way to put WordPress in a Read-Only state which... (more...)
Often when designing a WordPress theme, designers choose to have different styling for odd/even comments. Recently while working on a design, we decided to have different styling for odd/even posts. To do this, we needed to add an odd/even class to appropriate posts. Sadly, this is not one of the default classes. In this article, we will show you how to add an odd/even class to your posts in WordPress Themes. Simply paste the following code in your... (more...)
One of our users asked how do other sites show number of queries and page load time in the footer. You will often see this in the footer of sites and it may say something like: “64 queries in 1.248 seconds”. In this article, we will show you how to show number of queries and page load time in WordPress. Simply paste the following code anywhere you like in your theme files (such as footer.php). <?php echo get_num_queries(); ?> queries... (more...)
One of our users asked if there was a way to disable plugin updates in WordPress? As we say it in the WordPress community, “there’s a plugin for that”. In this article we will answer the question how to disable plugin updates in WordPress, but we will also discuss why it is not a good idea to disable plugin updates. If you want to disable plugin updates, simply install and activate the plugin Disable WordPress plugin updates. Now... (more...)
Have you ever found a need to list the posts from a specific category on a specific post or a page? In the past, we have used custom page templates and hard coded a solution in. However, recently we have discovered a way that allows you to list category posts in WordPress Posts or Page with a shortcode. First thing you need to do is install and activate the List Category Posts plugin. Once you have activated the plugin, you can simply use the shortcode... (more...)
In the past we have shown you how to add the shortlink menu, draft posts, and other things to the WordPress admin bar. In this article, we will show you how to add the Theme Editor in WordPress Admin Bar. All you need to do is either open your site-specific plugin or your theme’s functions.php file and paste the following code: // Add Theme Editor to Admin Bar (to save time!) function admin_bar_theme_editor_option() { global $wp_admin_bar; if... (more...)