WordPress usage has been diversified over the past few years. It was originally meant as a CMS for bloggers but more and more designers/developers use it to build completely different websites such as online stores, company websites, personal portfolios, membership...
PrivateContent – How To Add User Roles and Content Level Security to WordPress Websites
One of the questions I often get from visitors and clients is if there is a simple solution for WordPress to set up pages that only specific users can access – almost like a customer area or an extranet. I stumbled over a plugin that I believe does a good job and have...
How to Add a News Widget and exclude Posts from WordPress Archives
If you are using WordPress for blogging or an online magazine you may not need to filter out posts from the archives or searches. However WordPress have become very popular for business style websites and on this kind of websites clients may ask for having both news...
How To Add User Friendly And Fun Captcha Services
Web forms are used on nearly any website today to allow visitors to e.g. login or submit information of some kind. Collecting emails and other useful information from visitors and potential customers is critical to making business online. Unfortunately, adding a form...
How to Reorder Posts in WordPress without Changing Dates
Post in WordPress are normally presented to visitors in lists ordered by the date of publish. This is how we want it in most cases for blog posts and company news, but since WordPress is highly flexible and easily can be used for non-blogging related publishing, it is...
How to Add a Cool Submenu to your WordPress Website
While WordPress was originally created to serve the growing blogger population it quickly developed into a state of the art CMS platform for professional business websites. There is a huge supply of high quality themes for [link id='98804' text='business...
How to Get a Visual Editor for Your Widget Content
A key part of WordPress core functionality is the widget system. It was originally designed to make it easy for bloggers to add content to a sidebar without coding. Today widgets are not only used for blog sidebars and in many modern themes they are used as content...
How To Use WordPress Shortcut Keys to Speed Up Blogging
WordPress Shortcut keys is a useful WordPress feature since version 2.7. You don't even have to to get this feature. These helpful hotkeys can be used for more effective post editing, but also for comment...
How-To Translate WordPress Themes and Plugins
If you have never translated a WordPress theme or plugin before you may find that first time you try it out... it is not that easy. WordPress is certainly well prepared for localization and with the right tools and understanding in place you can do it fast and even...
How to Effectively Bulk Delete many Posts in WordPress
I recently had put myself in a situation where I had to delete just about 10.000 posts in WordPress in a specific category. The reason for this was the design of the community link on tripwire magazine. At the time when I created it I thought it was an OK solution to...