Every once in a while, you might run into a situation where you want to add a CSS class to a specific link in your WordPress navigation menu. Let’s say you want to make one link in your navigation stand out from the rest, and make it a call to action button. You could do […]
Author: John Locke
John Locke is a SEO consultant from Sacramento, CA. He helps manufacturing businesses rank higher through his web agency, Lockedown SEO.
Here are articles that this author has written for LockedownSEO.com.
Add New Fields To WordPress User Profiles
On your WordPress user profile, in the back end of the site, you’ll notice most themes have places to input your website, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube URLs. Many years ago, you had to add these manually, and WordPress (back in the day) used to have places to set your AIM (remember that?), Jabber, and Yim […]
Making A Sticky Blog Post in WordPress
What is a sticky blog post? Generally this means that on your blog archive page, instead of seeing posts in reverse chronological order (or however you sort them), one post will always be at the top of the first page. This is what we mean by “sticky”. Fortunately, WordPress makes this easy to do. Unfortunately, […]
Add Edit Profile Link In bbPress
bbPress is a popular WordPress plugin for creating forums. Sometimes, it is used by itself, but often, it is used in conjunction with BuddyPress, another WordPress plugin for creating self-hosted social networks. As it turns out, many folks have sought out how to add a link to edit your profile on bbPress, outside of the […]
Using WordPress Custom Admin Styles
Sometimes, it is advantageous to add custom CSS to the WordPress admin area. Perhaps you want to show an admin area that does not resemble the default WordPress back end. In other cases, you may want to serve specific admin styles, based on the user role of who’s logged in. Here’s how you add WordPress […]
Create A CSS Sticky Footer
What is a sticky footer? And why would you need one? As you may already know, the footer is the area at the bottom of a web page. This area usually contains copyright information, social media and other links, and sometimes contact information. The problem is that occasionally, your site may have pages where the […]
Using The More Tag In WordPress
The More Tag is one feature of WordPress that is still misunderstood by many users. The More Tag is what triggers the Read More or Continue Reading type of links on an archive page of blog posts or other post types. Most themes have a default link text for when the More Tag is displayed. […]
CSS: Using :nth-of-type() To Style Repeating Items
John Locke
Updated November 17th, 2020
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If you’re a developer, you’ve probably encountered a situation where you need to style items in a list. Oftentimes, you might be called on to set up a repeating pattern of items in a grid — like mini-profile bios on an About Page, for example. Let’s say you have a grid where each row has […]
Create A Custom Post Type RSS Feed In WordPress
John Locke
Updated November 17th, 2020
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Most WordPress themes output a RSS feed for Posts (standard blog posts) and Comments by default in the <head>. Posts are basically used for a normal blogging function. Post types are also used for Pages, Attachments, Revisions, and Navigation Menus. But since 2010, WordPress has supported custom post types, beyond these core five. This has […]
2015 Year In Review
Year-end reviews are cathartic. For the transparent business, a recap of the previous year is a public record of whether it met some of its goals for the year. For me, year-end reviews are a way to keep me accountable for setting goals and keeping track of what I’ve accomplished (or which of my targets […]