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 […]
Add Edit Profile Link In bbPress
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. […]
Add Featured Image To RSS Feed In WordPress
Let’s say you have a WordPress site, and the theme adds a Featured Image at the beginning of each post. Here’s the problem. When you have an RSS feed, or an email campaign hooked into your RSS, that Featured Image doesn’t show up. This happens because most themes add the Featured Image to posts as […]
Dates and Times In WordPress
WordPress has built in functions that deal with dates and times. A few of these of these functions are the_date, the_time, and the_modified_time. Let’s look at each of these, and how they work. We’ll also show you a chart of how to write dates and times in PHP, so you can output those exactly as […]
Automatically Change The Copyright Year In WordPress
A common question for website owners is “How do I automatically change the copyright year in WordPress?” Most WordPress themes have a place in the footer for copyright information or site credits. Sometimes this is in the footer.php file, sometimes it’s not. It depends on the theme. I’d like to show you not only how […]
Using A Child Theme In WordPress Development
There are many reasons you should be using a child theme when working with a premium WordPress theme that you want to alter. Professional WordPress developers will always use a child theme when customizing an existing theme. Inexperienced developers will make changes directly on a premium theme. This has some negative consequences. If you’re already […]
Installing WordPress Without A Domain Name
When moving an existing WordPress site from one hosting company to another, there are steps you have to consider. Most migration tools allow you to import a database from the existing install into your new WordPress install on the new server. The best way is to go with a host like WP Engine, that allows […]
Change Currency Display in WooCommerce
WooCommerce is the leading e-commerce solution on the WordPress platform. More people use it than any other plugin or e-commerce suite in the WordPress ecosystem. Out of the box, it can do quite a bit, and there are tons of paid extensions that help you add more robust functionality. But out of the box, it […]
Custom Excerpt Length In WordPress
Most WordPress themes have a means of displaying past articles with some teaser content, followed by a call to action link, inviting users to read further. There are two main options when it comes to outputting this teaser content, the functions the_content() and the_excerpt(). Before we go over how to set a custom excerpt length […]
Replace the_excerpt Ellipsis With Custom Link in WP
If you you are using the_excerpt() in your WordPress templates, you probably already know it cuts off at 55 words, and is followed by […]. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could replace that ugly trailing ellipsis with your own custom Read More link? Never fear, that’s exactly what we will show you today. You […]