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 […]
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 Enable User Registration, Login and Submission in WordPress
Instead of making a WordPress website limited to a number of users, we can easily configure it to allow user registrations and logins. Enabling visitors to register on the site means they can use the created accounts to login and then comment or even submit content/articles.
How to Use Digg Digg Plugin in WordPress to Add Social Sharing Buttons to Posts
Digg Digg is a popular social plugin that is used to add social media sharing buttons to a WordPress powered website. What is different about this plugin is that it is capable of adding a floating bar with the official sharing widgets. When a website is integrated with it, you will be able to configure […]
Setting Privacy of WordPress Links Shared in Google Plus to Public – Jetpack Publicize
Using Jetpack’s Publicize module there’s an option to automatically share the links to new posts in Google Plus. When this social network is connected for sharing links, by default, the privacy of the content is set to private or only me. For some users the content is shared only to their followers/circles and not the […]
How to Share Code Snippets in WordPress Using Syntax Highlighter Evolved
If you want to share code snippets in a website that is powered by WordPress then one of the finest plugin that you can use is titled: Syntax Highlighter Evolved. This is a powerful plugin that allows you to present code snippets within blog posts or pages. The syntax of code snippets will be automatically […]
Google XML Sitemaps Plugin – Make WordPress Site Accessible for Crawlers
Having an XML sitemap makes it easier for search engine crawlers to access all the contents of a website. It allows for the discovery and caching of content in multiple search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo. When all the links are submitted to Google, there is a high chance that every one of them will be listed […]
How to Disable Automatic Linking in WordPress Comments
Comments are very important in a blog. By default, it is disabled in WordPress. But one of the first things that are done is enabling comments along with a comment spam fighting plugin like Akismet. Comments add the interactivity to a blog. Users will be able to give feedback or discuss directly below the articles. […]
Changing WordPress Site Domain
When changing the domain name of a WordPress powered website, WordPress settings should be modified to reflect the new name. The changes will allow WordPress to actually use the new domain. The links, images and attachments which refer to the old domain name should also be updated. Remember, that the domain name change means changing […]
Can’t Find “Front Page Displays” Option in WordPress Reading Settings?
A number of themes these days have a magazine or parallax design. Instead of just displaying the list of articles, these themes display a number of elements on the home page. We can have different sections on the front page.