Posts Tagged ‘hack’

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..

At login page into Wordpress admin, we may see same default wordpress logo. This may be boring for some people. Using different logo can give added value and expressing the identity of certain website, while it may means nothing at all. Anyway, in order to customize wordpress login page logo into your own logo can be achieve in two ways.