Happy anniversary WordPress. Today, 27 May is marked as the 10th anniversary of WordPress and officially there are 705 WordPress meetups on this around the world. Do you attend any of them? I started blogging with Blogger.com and migrated to WordPress about a year later. Once with WordPress, I never look back and never regret with my […]
How to Enable Shortcodes in WordPress Widgets
In this very short tutorial, I’m going to share a little snippet to enable shortcodes in WordPress widgets. By default, all shortcodes can only be used in post and page post types. To add shortcode support in widgets, simply paste the following code in the functions.php file of your child theme: View the code on Gist. Here’s […]
How to Embed Gist (Github) Code in WordPress
Github is a great tool founded in 2008 that are used by millions of developers around the world. It makes collaborating with you co-worker, friends or even strangers much easier. Another great feature of Github is Gist. Here’s what Gist means: Gist is a simple way to share snippets and pastes with others. All gists are git repositories, so they are […]
Great Resources to Learn About Genesis Framework Hooks
I do not remember how many times I tell about the greatness Genesis Framework in this blog. Besides its SEO friendly and easy to use, there another thing that I love about it, the power of Genesis Framework hooks. To customize your theme, I highly recommend using child themes. With the power of Genesis hooks, it makes a […]
How to Build Internal Links Effectively for SEO
When talking about SEO, there are two main components, on-page SEO, and off-page SEO. On-page SEO is anything you do to your own website to make it SEO friendly. Either than using SEO friendly theme such as Genesis Framework, an internal link is another way to optimize you on page SEO. In this article, I’m going to show you […]
Customize Excerpt Length in WordPress
Today I’m going to share a little snippet to change or customize excerpt length on your WordPress site. Excerpt is a quick summary about an article and by default, WordPress will pull the first 55 words from the article as the excerpt. To change the excerpt length, simply put the following code in the functions.php file of […]
How to Show External RSS Feed in WordPress
In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to show external RSS feed on your WordPress site. There are actually few ways to do so, and I’m going to show you to of them. 1. Using WordPress default RSS widget WordPress comes with RSS default widget. Drag this widget to any of the widget area […]
How to Add Popup Contact Form in WordPress
Previously, I’ve written a tutorial on adding a simple contact form to your WordPress site using one of the most popular plugin, Contact Form 7 as an example. That’s all you need to know to add a simple contact form on a WordPress page. In this quick tutorial, I’m going to show how to add popup contact […]