💡 WordPress theme is a group of files (graphics, style sheets, and code) that controls the overall appearance of your website.
Here you can find tutorials for the most popular themes like Avada and Divi, or discover new themes for your blog.
Since WordPress 5.3, a prompt asking to confirm the administration email address appears every six months when a user with an administrator role tries to access the wp-admin dashboard. This feature was introduced to make sure that the email address configured in Settings → General is active. When this screen is shown you have several options: But … Read full article →
Step 1. Add the following inside your theme functions.php file or create a new Child theme first and add the code to it: Step 2. Add the shortcode [total_posts] anywhere on the website where you want to display the total number of posts: And it will display the number. 🙂
While developing a custom site I was in a need to represent how many minutes/hours/days the post was published ago instead of the published date. The logic of the code is simple: TIME DISPLAY less than 1 hour XX minutes ago 1 – 24 hours XX hours ago 24 hours – 7 days XX days … Read full article →
Code refactoring is the process of restructuring existing code without changing its behavior. This is often done to improve the readability, maintainability, and performance of the code. In the context of WordPress plugins and themes, code refactoring might involve reorganizing code into smaller functions, renaming variables and functions to be more descriptive, or simplifying complex … Read full article →
To change Post published date each time it is viewed, we can use the the_post action hook that gets fired every time a post is set up in the global $post variable. Here’s an example code snippet that you can add to your theme’s functions.php file or a custom plugin: Changing the post timestamp each … Read full article →
This is a simple solution to automatically change the copyright year in the WordPress footer, using the date(). php function and specifying just Y will display the current year. I use it on this site:
WordPress hooks are a powerful feature that allows you to customize and extend the functionality of your WordPress website without modifying the core code. They are essentialy points in the WordPress code where you can add your own custom code or functions. There are two types of hooks in WordPress: actions and filters. Action hooks … Read full article →
Here is a small snippet that you can add to your functions.php file to show different menus to logged-in users in WordPress. In this example 5 is the menu ID of the menu shown to logged-in users and 6 is the ID for the menu shown to guests. So, create two menus and copy their … Read full article →
One of the biggest disadvantages of the Gutenberg editor is that the width of the editor is not as full-width as the classic editor. In many themes, the background editing interface is very narrow compared to the actual article page, resulting in different front and back layouts, which affects the article. In this article, We’ll … Read full article →
At the time of writing this article (December 03.2022), PHP8 is no longer actively supported and will only receive security support for the next 1 year. New PHP versions offer better optimization and security, but not all plugins, themes, or even WordPress itself is NOT fully compatible with PHP 8.0 How to force your WordPress … Read full article →