If you’re a developer or someone who likes to tweak your own theme, sometimes you might need to find the post IDs. The ID is important especially when you need to use WordPress conditional tags, such as hiding some elements in specific post or page. Before this, I’ve written few tutorials where you need to
How to do Liveblog With WordPress
If you’re a journalist or someone who attend a great event and want to share or broadcast it instantly to your readers, liveblog is one of the great ways to do it. However, with default WordPress system, it isn’t possible. Introducing Liveblog plugin by Automattic. Here’s a demo video about the Liveblog plugin. At first, the
How to Allow or Prevent New User Registration
As admin of your own site, you can decide whether to allow or disallow new user registration. If you’re the only author and user, disabling the new user registration feature is the best option. However, for a membership site, for example, you need to enable new user registration so anyone can register a new account
How to Force Strong Passwords in WordPress
If your site allows new user registration, it is good to make sure every user uses strong password. After registration, a random generated password will be sent to their email. Then, users can change their password from the profile page. Although WordPress will show the strength of the password to users, it will not prevent
Add Custom Smileys to WordPress
WordPress comes with 22 default smileys that can be used in your post/page and comments section. Smileys, or also known as emoticons are glyphs to convey emotions in your writing. Here are some examples of smileys: Complete list of smileys can be seen from the table below: How to Enable or Disable Smileys Smileys are
How to Allow Users to Attach Image in Comments Section
Ever wondered how to allow users to attach an image in comments section of your WordPress site? By default, HTML codes are allowed to be used in the comments section. However, if you ever tried to use the same method to attach an image, it won’t work. For some sites with lots of discussions from
How To Get Notification for WordPress Updates on Email
If you are a WordPress developer with lots of clients, it’s important to have a great tool to monitor all of the clients’ sites. WordPress core, plugins and themes should be updated immediately once the new version is released. However, how do you know whether there is a newer version of the WordPress, plugin or
