To customize specific widgets on your website, you need the widget class. To, find the class for every widget in your WordPress site, I recommend using Firebug, an add-on for Firefox browser. For Chrome users, you can use the developer tools by simply click the F12 button. However, there are times when using custom class […]
WordPress101: Using Your Own Custom Gravatar
Gravatar is your own internet identity. It is another great product by Automattic, the same company behind WordPress.com and many other great products such as VaultPress, VideoPress, Akismet etc. From WordPress Codex page, Gravatar can be defined as: Gravatars are Globally Recognized Avatars. Integrated into WordPress, Gravatars are an avatar or gravatar is an icon, or representation, […]
Make A Video Responsive in WordPress
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 […]
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 […]
Creating a Custom 404 Page in Genesis
Sometime you might encounter the 404 page when visiting a non-existed page. This might cause by various reasons, you might have misspelled the URL or maybe the author had deleted his article. Many websites have 404 page that is useless. Users feel lost and they quickly leave the website. This is an example of really unique […]
SimpleModal Login Review: Add Popup Login in WordPress
I hate the default login page in WordPress. Although the login page can be customized, it’s not user-friendly. Users have to click a link and they will be redirected to the login page. Why not just put the login form on the front page? It can be on your sidebar and on your top menu. […]