Convert Pages to Posts and Vice versa
Sometimes you may need to convert posts to pages or vice versa, and as usual a couple of WordPress developers have already developed such a solution for you. Read the post to discover which plugins can help you out.
How to Remove Obsolete Cron Jobs
WordPress relies on Cron to run scheduled tasks and scripts, such as backups of your blog or flushing the spam comments. Unfortunately some plugins which use Cron are not coded well enough and do not remove their cron tasks when uninstalled. If you notice that this is the case (you can use the Cron View plugin to see what’s in your Cron), you can use this handy function to remove obsolete cron jobs. Replace ‘cron_name’ with the name of the cron job you wish to remove. Then just place the code snippet in the theme’s functions.php file, save and refresh.…
The Best WordPress Wedding Themes
Building a site for your wedding is a great way to keep a record of your special day and the build up to it, or even to share photos with all your guests. Others also use a wordpress wedding site to give directions or for a list of wedding gifts. We know you are busy preparing your wedding and don’t really have time to find out which are the best WordPress wedding themes, so we’ve done the hard work for you.
Anti-Spam Solutions for WordPress
Are you fighting a losing battle against spam on your blog or website? Read on to find which plugins will provide a solution to ending spam once and for all.
Custom Database Error Page
Put a file called “db-error.php” directly inside your /wp-content/ folder and WordPress will automatically use that when there is a database connection problem.
How To Remove Media Upload Buttons in Post Editor
In the WordPress admin screen, when working in the post or page editor, you will see some media upload buttons above the TinyMCE editor. If you would like to hide them from your client, for example to disable the upload of such files, you can follow the steps in this post.
Using Featured Images in Custom Post Types
Custom Post Types are one of my favourite features in WordPress nowadays, and I use the excellent Easy Content Types plugin for generating them. Sometimes I need to include uploadable images within the the custom post types, and although the plugin mentioned allows file uploads, I still feel that some tweaking of the ‘Featured Image’ functionality provided by WordPress is still the most ideal method of doing this. So at the end of this tutorial we will have something that looks like the screen below This is a screenshot of the ‘Books’ custom post type I have running on this…
Best Banner Image Plugin for WordPress
WP Bannerize is an amazing Banner Image Manager. In your template insert: , use new shortcode featured or set it like Widget.
WordPress Archive Solutions
WordPress provides the handy wp_get_archives() function for displaying post archives in your site, however depending on your site or blog, you may want to have some more advanced functionality. Let’s take a look at the options out there.
Best Pagination Plugin for WordPress
Pagination is an in-built feature of WordPress, but the default functionality only includes a way to access the next post or the previous post. A blog can have hundreds or thousands of posts, so this functionality might turn out to be a bit limited for such power users. A better technique would be to have numbering at the bottom of the post, whereby you would be able to skip easily to other posts, similar to the Google search page results screen. The best pagination plugins for WordPress are WP PageNavi and WP Paginate. WP PageNavi WP PageNavi is the most…
