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The traditional use of widgets in WordPress is to set it and forget it. After placing and configuring a widget, it stays in the widgetized area until manually removed. Many plugins have extended widgets to add visibility settings that are…
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WordPress’ sticky posts feature was introduced six years ago in the 2.7release. It was added to enable users to stick important posts to the front page so that they won’t disappear in a blog’s steady stream of chronologically ordered…
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Maintaining a library of code snippets can save you time when coding similar tasks in the future. Although there are countless sites online where you can host code snippets, it’s more convenient to have them at your fingertips when writing…
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The new WordPress default theme, Twenty Fifteen, looks great and provides a lot of flexibility, but one thing it lacks is the option to customize fonts. A free plugin called Typecase, by UpThemes, solves this problem by giving users easy…
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WordPress 4.1 was released just yesterday, but core contributors are already planning and working towards 4.2. The Menu Customizer feature plugin is back in development and contributors are hoping to have it ready for inclusion in 4.2. Nick…
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We recently suffered a brute force login attack on one of my servers which was causing some sites to be unreachable and the server load was sky-high. After installing a logging script on the server we found out that the problem was caused…
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In this post you will get an overview of the different roles in WordPress and what users with each of the available roles can do when logged into your WordPress site. If you ever plan on giving another user access to your admin area,…
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More people are now choosing to host their website resources on a content delivery network (CDN) for many reasons. While there are many benefits of using a CDN, do you need to use it? In this article, I’ll discuss the key benefits of using…
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