In this era of responsive web design (RWD), many developers tend to make clients’ websites responsive. According to Wikipedia, RWD can be defined as: An approach to web design in which a site is crafted to provide an optimal viewing experience—easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling—across a wide range […]
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WordPress 101: Embed Youtube Videos in WordPress
Writing a blog post shouldn’t be all texts. Sometimes you want to add some spices to the article by adding some related images or videos. With WordPress, that can easily be done. Today I’m going to teach you how to embed Youtube videos on your WordPress site. For advanced users, this is something you already […]
Add Floating Social Sharing Buttons to Website
Besides Search Engine Optimization (SEO), there is no doubt social network is another great source to increase traffic to your website. For example, a user might find that your article is useful, so he decided to share your article in his Facebook wall. Then, few of his friends noticed it and click on the link, […]
Automatically Create Video Thumbnail in WordPress
With auto-embed feature enable in WordPress by default, it is now very easy to put (or better-called embed) any video on your website. You just need to paste the video URL in your post editor, click Save Draft or Publish button and you’ll see the video. However, one thing I found that WordPress is still lack of is the […]
Redirect Logged Out User to Custom Link
By default, when users log out from your website, they will be redirected to the Login Page with the message “You are now logged out“. Yikes. That is not so user-friendly. Users have to click on the link at the bottom of the page that says “Back to WP Speak.com” to go back to the […]
Auto-Generate Embed Code for Image in WordPress
In one of the recent projects, I need a feature that allows WordPress to auto-generate embed code for every image uploaded. Visitors can simply copy and paste this code to embed the image on their sites. Instead of having to write it manually after uploading every image, I need a way to automate the process. […]
Add 9gag-like Image Watermark
I rarely open 9gag. However, I often see people around me on Facebook (my friends and relatives) sharing funny pictures from 9gag. How do I know? Well, it’s very obvious. Every 9gag image will have a watermark at the bottom of the image. When users download a picture from 9gag to their computers, interestingly the image […]
Remove Category Slug in WordPress
For managing content, Categories plays a vital role to put content into the similar topic. By default, WordPress will create a not-so-good-looking slug for category: http://yourdomain.com/category/category1 Sometimes, when using WordPress as CMS, this looks so unprofessional. A better category slug for the category should be: http://yourdomain.com/category1 While there are some folks suggesting to tweak the .htaccess file, I […]