How to fix common problems on a WordPress website
Last month I was talking to my friend Zac Johnson about theme switching plugins for WordPress. For years I used the plugin Theme Test Drive to allow people to change the WordPress theme being used. Unfortunately, Vladimir Prelovac hasn’t updated the plugin for 18 months and it doesn’t work very well with the latest versions of WordPress. Try Theme …
I’ve spoken about preventing comment spam on WP Mods on a number of occasions. It’s something that all popular WordPress blogs have to deal with at some point. One type of spam I haven’t really spoke about until now is registration spam. If you have checked the option to allow anyone to register for your …
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A client recently asked me to change the order of a list of categories displayed in a sidebar. I opened the proper file, located the call to get_terms that collected the terms, and finally visited the Codex to find the proper argument to alter. To my astonishment, there was no way to order the category terms in a user-specified …
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This is a beginner level tutorial for WordPress users and developers who may have forgotten their admin password to log into the WordPress admin dashboard which is necessary to update any WordPress blog or website. I will provide several possible solutions for different situations. There is even a solution if you don’t know the username, …
The phone rang and my heart sank. I answered and heard the distressed voice of a client, explaining that her customers were calling and complaining that the WordPress website for their business was hacked. Complaints of damage to a customer’s computer because of a virus and claims of a lost photo collection trickled in and I knew we had …
P3 Plugin Performance Profiler is a useful WordPress plugin from GoDaddy that creates a report that shows you which plugins are slowing down your website. By analysing the report you can narrow down problem plugins and speed up your website. After installing the plugin you have the option of either an automatic or manual scan. The difference is the …
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No More Passwords is a cool new WordPress plugin from Jack Reichert that lets you log in to your WordPress-powered website by scanning a Quick Response Barcode with your smartphone. Once you have activated the plugin you will see a QR barcode in your login page. The idea is that you scan the code with your QR application and it …
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The NHP Theme Options Framework is an easy to use free options framework from Freelance Graphic Designer Lee Mason. On the framework home page Lee acknowledges other great option frameworks such as Options Framework Theme and The UpThemes Framework though points out that neither of them provided him with the extendibility he needed. Specifically he wanted: Setting up with NHP Theme Framework …
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This is an advanced tutorial for WordPress users interested in using WordPress CakePHP. There are several tricks in this tutorial you can apply to your WordPress/CakePHP setup when moving from one server to another. The tricks in this tutorial can be useful whether you are moving to a new server or adding WordPress to your …
Since WP Mods was launched the archives page has showed older posts by month and by category. Posts are listed using the index.php template so the title, excerpt and featured image are all displayed. Whilst this is a user friendly way of displaying older articles, it isn’t necessarily what everyone wants. Effectiveness of displaying posts …
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