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A neat way to spice up your WordPress search page is to highlight search terms within your search results. The solution described in this tutorial will highlight both the title and post content and is a drop-in modification for WordPress.
Breadcrumbs are a great way to give people a perspective of where they are on your site. In this post I will explain how to add breadcrumbs to WordPress without using a plugin. Adding this feature will also help the search engine spiders to find the structure of your site and decrease the time it takes to index a single page. A lot of wordpress theme developers like to use as few plugins as possible and this code will help you accomplish that.
By default, WordPress allows certain tags in comments. Commenters can add links, style text in bold and italics, add tables, and more. This can be quite useful until the spammers pay you a visit.
If you simply disable HTML from your WordPress comments, it can prevent a lot of SPAM. In this quick tip we will show you how to disable HTML tags in your WordPress comments.
So you finally got that long awaited popular post with a billion Digg’s and hundreds of comments. After spending quality time responding to some of your favorites you realized that your replies just got lost in the mix.
As the author you really want the readers to have an easy way to know exactly when and where your responses are so you decide to find a quick and easy solution. Why not just give your comments a different background color? I will show you how to highlight author comments in your WordPress blog. This is a lot easier than you think because at WPSwitch we are never gonna let you down. Here is a quick and super simple solution to make your replies stand out from the rest.
Let’s face it, the average blog designs these days are somewhat cookie cutter and a bit boring. You see a lot of rehashed free themes and you as well decided to use the same design that everyone else does. Time to change that by giving your blog some unique but very simple styles. How about using different styles for your wordpress categories?
Using custom fields can be confusing to WordPress noobs. Scott Ellis provides an introductory explanation of how to use wordpress custom fields for image placement and the components that go into making custom fields work from front end placement to back end utilization and code.
So you have bazillions of followers on Twitter and you want to display your Twitter dominance to all the people who visit your blog huh? If you are not a fan of plugins you can display your follow count in plain text and style it to your liking later on.
Adam Purcell of Hungry Dog Media walks you through all of the steps needed to create your first eCommerce website with WordPress. He adds a full ecommerce system and shows you how to have your product online, for sale in under 5 minutes using the WP e-Commerce plugin.
The thing you’ll probably be doing most with WordPress – writing and publishing posts – is covered in this short flyby tutorial.
VideoPress is an upgrade that makes it easy to upload, embed, and share video on your blog or any site around the world, even in full HD. In this wordpress tutorial, we look at how to make use of the service using your self-hosted installation of WordPress.
