WPRecipes has featured a useful example on how to change wordpress excerpt length depending on which category you are on. This is important for some webmaster who likes variations on their excerpt length depending on different categories. Let’s taste the recipes.
By default, the WordPress loops displays 10 posts per page. You can change this inside WordPress admin panel manually without any headache of coding. However, in some circumstances you may require to overwrite those setting. There is a way to overwrite them in case you forgot to do so, here’s the hack to define how many post to display per page on WordPress website.
Are you using excerpts or full posts on your blog posts homepage? By default, there is no way to use both excerpts and full posts on your blog homepage at the same time. However there is a hack that can enable that. This way you can show full post and excerpts at the same homepage. Here’s a hack to do it.
Some WordPress theme by default are using excerpt instead of full post to display post list on Homepage. Do you ever wonder why the the_excerpt() function displaying [...] at the end of the post excerpt? We don’t find this beautiful to see. Let us see how to remove it.
There might be a situation where a WordPress blog visitor would want to see an archive page with a complete list of all posts in a page. Not only they can be of help to widen the scanning area of which post they might want to read, but also improving the time of visitors at a certain page or post in terms of SEO because they have a wide list of posts to read after that by directly going to the archive page. The only drawback to it is the page would take quite some time to load all the complete post in the blog if they contain lots of images or videos. We can always use excerpt to level that. Follow us on how to list all posts in a page like our archives page!
We have been using plugins to display random posts on our sidebar. As all may have known, avoiding the use of plugins may decrease the loading speed of any wordpress website. We have started using these very simple line of codes just to make that happen. So how do we display random posts in Wordpress sidebar without any plugins?
.htaccess, the file which controls the Apache webserver behavior, is very useful and allows us to do a lot of things, mostly for security reasons. Now let’s see how these most popular .htaccess hacks can help us with our WordPress blog for security, functionality and usability.
One way to spice up the search page is to highlight the search terms within the search results. The way described in this tutorial is using jQuery and will highlight both title and post content.
Many free themes or blog templates out there comes with default search forms that has empty field without any text in its input area. We believe this is fine, but you can see that many themes also have already started to put default text inside the search form field.It has already become a web 2.0 trends and not just being used in search forms but other form fields also.
Some repetitive task like twitter code addition in every post may be troublesome for us. There is a simple way that we can do by typing something like [shortcode]. This allowing us to call a php function in any place of the site and saves time. Continue read on to find how to use them.
Somehow after a period of long time, we still receiving comments and trackbacks for our old wordpress posts. This maybe troublesome for us to approve if it is require moderation and moreover if they are likely more to spams and hot-linking only. However, the is an easy hack where you can disable comments and trackbacks after a certain period the post was published.
Sometime we may need to add an advertisement or adsense ads after our first post. That is quite easy to do. However, how if we want to add multiple advertisements after certain number of posts? See how it can be done..