How to Backup WordPress
A step-by-step guide on how to Backup your WordPress blog or site using the BackupBuddy plugin. You can backup your database or your full site and can schedule your backups for full automation.
Best Twitter Plugins for WordPress
Let’s explore how we can get the most out of Twitter by posting new tweets to our WordPress blog and also publishing tweets about new blog posts. The plugins we will use are WP-to-Twitter and Tweet Adder.
How to disable a Plugin’s Styles
Learn how to disable a WordPress plugin’s stylesheet and use your own stylesheet instead. Reasons why you would want to do this are various, for example load speed optimisation and customising a plugin’s appearance (more than its own options allow you to). We also learn how to selectively load stylesheets.
How to Disable commenting on posts by default
All the options currently available for turning off commenting on WordPress pages, posts or custom post types. Check out the various alternatives and choose the one you like best.
How to use WordPress Tags and Categories
Learn about the nature of WordPress Tags and Categories, and how you can make these taxonomy tools work in your favour by making users and search engines find your content in an easy way.
Detect WordPress template file being used
This is a handy function which I tend to use from time to time when debugging my blogs, it outputs the name of the template file being used to display the current page.
Optimise your site’s speed using Debug Queries
Learn how to use the Debug Queries plugin to analyse database queries at load time, and make the adjustments necessary to speed up your site.
How to add a JQuery ‘scroll to top’ button
Learn how you can easily add a cool and useful ‘Scroll to Top’ button at the bottom of long posts on your blog.
How to automatically capitalize post titles
Learn how you can use the Title Case plugin to automatically capitalise post titles in WordPress.
How to Add More Than One Featured Image in Your Post
Learn how you can use the Multipe Post Thumbnails plugin to add more than one featured image (post thumbnail) to your WordPress posts/pages or custom post types.
