There is no automatic built-in method/function in WordPress to change a multi-user WordPress’s domain name. I faced this problem when I tried to add ‘www.’ to the domain name. Hopefully, many people have this problem and give out pretty good solution. Oremj integrate the DB changes needed into one PHP script, which is quite convenient […]
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Controlling Display of WordPress Widget with PHP Code
I am always wondering how to display different Widgets in WordPress depending on the page/post/category etc. I ever tried some plugins that is for specific purpose. However, they are not flexible enough for all my needs. For example, I want a widget that contains AdSense ad not display on certain posts that I selected and […]
Changing the Font Size of WordPress’s Visual Editor
The font size of WordPress’s visual editor is too small for me on my screen display. The default font size is 13px which is hard for my eye on my screen. There are two ways to change the default font size in the visual editor. One is changing WordPress’s css file for the editor while […]
How to Redirect WordPress Feed to Feedburner Using .htaccess
.htaccess is a powerful tool. Let’s look at how to using .htaccess to redirect WordPress feeds to feedburner. Let’s use my blog as the example. The WordPress’s feed url of my blog is https://www.systutorials.com/b/feed/. Now I want to redirect it to feedburner with url http://feeds.systutorials.com/fclosefeed . The idea is quite straightforward: For every request to […]
WordPress Theme: ZM Theme
About ZM Theme ZM Theme is a simple and light-weight theme for WordPress. ZM Theme provides a green style, bright view and fast rendering experience to the users. ZM Theme passes W3C XHTML 1.0 and W3C CSS level 3 validation. This theme works well on WordPress 2.9.x. ZM Theme is originally designed for this blog […]
Get the Number of All Posts in WordPress
Use the wp_count_posts() function to get the posts count. The code: <?php $count_posts = wp_count_posts(); $count_pages = wp_count_posts(‘page’); echo “<li><a href=” . get_option(‘home’) . “>”; echo $count_posts->publish . ” Posts, ” . $count_pages->publish . ” Pages”; echo “</a></li>” ?>
Speeding Up the Site by Using PHP GZIP Compression
Compression is a simple way to speed up the site. PHP’s gzip compression is excellent. And using it is very convenient: Simply put these codes before any HTML content at the beginning of the PHP script: <?php if (substr_count($_SERVER[‘HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING’], ‘gzip’)) ob_start(“ob_gzhandler”); else ob_start(); ?> In WordPress, the suitable position for these codes is the beginning […]
Put the Categories, Archives and All Posts into Pages
I prefer putting pages that contains all the categories, archives and even all the posts in one page to putting these links in the side bar. Actually, most of time it needn’t to stay on every pages. And if it is in the side bar, the search engine will see these links in every page […]
Change WordPress’s Excerpt Length
The default excerpt length of WordPress is 55 words. Some one like me may want to change the excerpt length. I like the have a smaller excerpt length for the homepage. WordPress provides a interface for changing the default excerpt length. The method is very simple and easy. Put these codes into the function.php file […]
Use noindex Meta Tag in WordPress to Prevent Search Engine Indexing Categories, Tags and Archives
WordPress has the content duplication problem which may confuse search engines. Duplicate content won’t hurt you, unless it is spammy or keyword stuffing, as said by Matt Cutts, and Google may just ignore the duplicate content. However, instead of letting the search engines decide which pages of the duplicate ones are important, we may only […]
Use Excerpt in Index, Category, Tag and Arhieve Pages for WordPress
By default, all of the content of the post is shown in index, category, tag, archive and search pages. This is duplicate contents which may cause search engine penalty. The better way is using excerpt in index, category, tag and arhieve pages. By doing this the duplication can be avoided and the blog is optimized. […]
Verifying WordPress Blogs with Google Webmasters
Note: this may not be working anymore with latest WordPress and Google Webmasters. Considering this as a historical reference. Google Webmasters gives two methods for verification: Meta tag and HTML file. The meta tag method can not be used for ones that do not have the permission to upload plugins. And usually theses users such […]
The WordPress Desktop Client – lekhonee
I find a desktop client for publishing to WordPress blogs – lekhonee[1]. I find it interesting and easy to use. This is the first post using it. The interface is simple, but it can provides most of the functions: * Writing post. * Select categories. * Add tags. * Load and Edit the old post. […]
Moved back to WordPress from MediaWiki
WordPress is so missed for many great features and plugins. Hence, we moved the site back to the WordPress system on Jul. 12, 2013. MediaWiki is great but, for this site, WordPress is a better solution. The so missed features of WordPress ∞ Related posts via the YARPP Plugin. URLs without strongly mapped to the […]
