Over the years, I’ve had some interesting requests, and one of them was how to link the widget title in WordPress. Out of the box, WordPress really doesn’t give you much leniency except customizing the CSS for your widget title. You can’t make it several different fonts, or get HTML to work. I’ll go over
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How To List The Most Recent Registered Users In WordPress
For people who run websites that allow people to register, especially a community type website, sometimes it might be a novel idea to list the most recent registered users in WordPress. To do this, you must work a little PHP and WordPress database magic. For this code snippet tutorial, we’re bring in the user’s name,
[Continue Reading...]How to Add Drafts as Menu Item to the WordPress Admin Navigation
I rely on my draft posts. On a whim, I will often just create a title, write a few notes, and save a draft post with the plan of writing about it in the future. However, I get annoyed having to navigate a few pages in my WordPress admin to get the to draft post
[Continue Reading...]Change Default Role Names In WordPress
For people who are customizing their WordPress backend, sometimes the little things like how to change default role names are needed. This is good for membership sites, multi-author blogs, companies, and more. By default, WordPress has the following roles: Administrator, Contributor, Editor, Author, and Subscriber. In order to do this, you have to add create
[Continue Reading...]How to Add Images to Widgets in WordPress
The great thing about WordPress is that you can do a lot of things, including the fact that you can add images in most places. However, after encountering a few clients who were still learning how to use WordPress the question on how to add images to widgets keep popping up. So, I am going
[Continue Reading...]How to Limit Post Revisions In WordPress
If you revise your posts a lot in WordPress, you probably are racking up quite a bit of post revisions stored in your database. With time, and as your site grows, this could weigh your database down. In fact, you really don’t need 10 post revision, and not even 5. Usually 2 or 3 post
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