WordPress is great! In my opinion it's one of the best PHP frameworks available. Ok, maybe "PHP framework" is a bit far-fetched but since I've started using and developing on WordPress for my websites, I'm not developing around other open source CMS (Content...
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Ready my latest WordPress Blog Posts.How to add any RSS feed to your WordPress blog
Have you seen blogs where different types of RSS feeds are displayed on pages and blog posts? If you have installed WordPress out of the box, the only way that you can add RSS feeds to your theme is usually via the "RSS" feed widget but then it is only displayed on a...
How to enable post thumbnails on WordPress
Have you seen blogs where thumbnails are displayed next to the blog post content usually found on the home page, search pages, categories and archive pages of the blog? Have a look at Mashable's home page and this blog's home page to see this in action. If you have a...
How to control your WordPress widgets – Widget Logic
Widget Logic is quite a nice plugin that you can use to control where your WordPress widgets appear with WordPress conditional tags. Once you have installed the plugin, all of your widgets will have an extra text field where you can use WordPress conditional tags to...
How to display your Twitter follower count on WordPress without a plugin
This is quite a nice trick if you don't like buttons such as Facebook Like or any Twitter counter buttons on your WordPress website or blog. With this method, you can display your Twitter count as normal text and it can blend in quite nicely if you have custom...
How to increase the excerpt length on WordPress
Are you displaying excerpts on your WordPress blog without any excerpt related plugins? Do you want to control the length of the excerpts? This method is great if you do not want to use plugins to control the length of your excerpts. Use the code below that you can...
How to display your most recent Tweet on WordPress
Twitter is one of the best tools that you can use as a blogger to promote your blog posts. Many blogs (including this one) uses Twitter related widgets and badges where you can display Tweets. If you would like to display your most recent Tweet on your WordPress...
Solution: An Unexpected HTTP Error occurred during the API request
Yesterday while I was busy updating a couple of my WordPress blogs, on one of the blogs I kept on getting an unexpected error when I was trying to add and update plugins - An unexpected HTTP Error occurred during the API request. To be honest, I was totally baffled by...
Google Webmasters Tools: WordPress update available
This is old news but I just logged into my Google's Webmasters account and got this message that I should update my WordPress blogs (the ones not updated yet) to the latest version of WordPress and the ones connected to my Webmasters account. I must say that I was...