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 […]
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 […]
How to Find ID of Posts/Pages, Categories, Users and Everything Else in WordPress
In WordPress, every item that you create or upload, or is created and uploaded by users has a unique ID assigned to it. It is basically a unique number used to query, identify and read the item for display from the database. This ID is present for almost everything—posts, pages, categories, tags, users, media uploads, comments, […]
Alternative Text vs. Image Title Attribute in WordPress Media Manager
The Add Media button in WordPress visual composer is not only for uploading and inserting images but it is also used to put additional media information and links. There are two main tabs present in the Insert Media window—upload files and media library. You can either upload files from your system or choose previously uploaded […]
How to Change WordPress Media Upload Directory?
WordPress media directory is the location of the folder on a web-host where media files like images are uploaded. By default, files are uploaded to /wp-content/uploads/ folder. The uploaded files are also organized into month and year based folders. That means when we upload an image.jpg in the month of May 2015, it is placed […]
How to Use WordPress Media Manager to Edit Images in-house
The tool that allows us to upload and insert images in WordPress can do a whole lot more than that. Besides allowing us to insert and edit captions, alternate text, descriptions and titles—it can do some basic image editing as well. It is not as powerful as an image editing software but we can easily […]
How to Find out Whether a Website is Powered by WordPress or Not
If there is ever a need to figure out whether a website is powered by WordPress or not, then it’s a simple task. We can either view the content/design, source of the website or check with external tools. What we usually look for is the directory structure, themes or CSS files that are pointed in […]
How to Get WP.me Shortlinks for Blog Posts in WordPress
WP.me domain short links is a great way to access the posts in a blog. They act as an alternative to using external URL shortening services like bit.ly and goo.gl. After activating Jetpack, this service is attached to your blog. When WP.me shortening service is activated in Jetpack, each and every post will have a […]