Count Words for WordPress Articles and Analyze Keywords
There is this not so popular but quite useful word counting and analyzing plugin called Word Stats. I stumbled across it while searching for a tool to count the total words of all the articles in WordPress. While it is capable of doing the counting, it has a lot of other features related to keywords and analyzing them for […]
How to Quickly Setup and Use a Child Theme in WordPress
While making modifications to the theme’s PHP, CSS or others files in WordPress, the changes might not stay after it is updated. Automated updates will definitely remove all the previous files and bring in new updated ones. Since the files are all new, they should be edited again.
Customize WordPress Posts to Display Updated Date Instead of Published Date
By default, most WordPress themes are configured to display the date a post was created and published on. That means, no matter how many updates are done, every post will show historical dates. Content can be updated multiple times but the date remains the same. But it is possible to configure any theme to show the […]
Create Price Tables in WordPress with Plugin: Easy Pricing Tables
If your goal is to create neat looking tables which display different subscription plans and their features along with a signup button at the end, then the plugin Easy Pricing Tables Lite by Fatcat Apps is the best one out there. Several plans can be listed in different columns and under each column—you can put […]
How to Create Additional Sizes of Images Uploaded in WordPress?
After an image is uploaded to WordPress, we can set it to have new image dimensions (width x height) in addition to the three default sizes automatically generated by WordPress. The new image size should be registered using add_image_size to instruct WordPress to create it. Additional settings like cropping the image and setting the position […]
How to Update Default Image Dimensions in WordPress
When an image file is uploaded to WordPress, various copies of the image is created and stored. Normally, three additional copies of an image will be stored with the original one. These copies are different in terms of dimension or image size (Width X Height pixels). The WordPress Media Manager, automatically re-sizes the images and […]
How to Edit WordPress Theme Files From the Admin Dashboard
While making modifications to WordPress, we need to edit the theme files located inside the /wp-content/themes/ folder. Sometimes, we might have to manually add some lines of code to header.php or other files like footer.php or content.php. The purpose of the edit could be to add simple lines of code like adding a favicon link rel […]
How to Add Favicon to a WordPress Powered Website
A favicon is an icon or image used in the title bar of a tab in a browser when a particular website is open. Every website can have a 16×16 pixels image on the browser’s title bar, right before the title of the page. It can be used as a branding tool for websites on […]
Configure WordPress Login, Registration Pages to Use the Current Theme
After enabling user registration, login and submission in WordPress, the design of login, registration and forgot password pages are quite different from the site’s current theme. It uses the default WordPress admin and login forms so it might look quite dull for many. What would look great is that if the login, registration and forgot […]
How to Backup WordPress Remotely to Dropbox using WPB2D
Backing up all the content that is online is absolutely necessary. While running a website powered by WordPress, the site files and database needs to be backed up regularly. This is done so that when there are data failures, the backup can be used to restore a website to its previous working stage. Backing up […]