Important wordpress links!

Posted on September 30, 2009 by admin

WordPress Plugins
WordPress Support Forums – If you have a problem, it’s probably answered in the forums somewhere
WordPress Download Page – Make sure you’re downloading the latest WP for clients
HTML Validator
CSS Validator

Tags: Wordpress Customization

How to remove version information from your Wordpress?

Posted on September 29, 2009 by admin

By default WordPress adds the script version to the header of your Wordpress blog. This information might be a lot helpful for a hacker who are trying to take down or take over your blog since you are using an older version of WordPress which is not as secure as the latest version. Do not [...]

Tags: Wordpress Customization , Wordpress TIPS

How to Display List of Authors?

Posted on September 29, 2009 by admin

Here is how you can display a list of the authors (users) associated with your Wordpress Blog, and if the user has authored any posts, the author name is displayed as a link to their posts. Optionally this tag displays each author’s post count and RSS feed link.
<?php wp_list_authors( $args ); ?>

Tags: Wordpress Customization , Wordpress Functions

New Features in Wordpress 2.8.4

Posted on September 29, 2009 by admin

Here are the list of Newly added features to Wordpress in it’s latest version 2.8.4.

New Theme Installer routines
Add CodePress syntax highlighting to Theme and Plugin editors
Add Documentation(function) lookup to Theme and Plugin editors
Use “Custom Header” for menu text and revise Default theme to reflect change
Separate Comments into a [...]

Tags: Wordpress News

How to change the “Read More” link?

Posted on September 29, 2009 by admin

In the Wordpress Templates we generally see the “Read More” links at the end of the small excerpt text. Wanna change the text to something else? Then please follow the steps.
1. Navigate to Appearance –> Editor in your Wordpress Dashboard
2. Open your “index.php” or file and find this line:
<?php the_content(__(‘Read more’));?>
3. replace it with this [...]

Tags: Wordpress Customization , Wordpress Dashboard , Wordpress Functions , Wordpress TIPS

How to remove Excerpt if left empty?

Posted on September 29, 2009 by admin

In Wordpress “the_Excerpt()” displays the excerpt filed value of the current post with [...] at the end, which is not a “read more” link. If you do not provide an explicit excerpt to a post (in the post editor’s optional excerpt field), it will display a teaser which refers to the first 55 words of [...]

Tags: Wordpress Customization , Wordpress Functions , Wordpress TIPS