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How to Add an Author’s Photo in WordPress

User Photo Plugin for WordPress

WordPress has many useful plugins to increase author and user interaction. Having a good author profile page is one of them. One of the most important part of the author page is author’s profile photo, so users can associate a picture with them.

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Dec 31, 2009
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How to Display a Category only if it has Posts in WordPress

Display a Category Only Post

This snippet that we are sharing in this article is helpful in very custom designs. By default you can use wp_list_categories function to display categories, and it only displays categories if it has posts. Sometimes when you are customizing WordPress, you might need to use it this way.

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Dec 30, 2009
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How to Display Author’s Twitter and Facebook on the Profile Page

Author Profile Page

By default WordPress allow to display author’s website, email, and a few other useless IM contacts, but it is missing important social media networks like Facebook, and Twitter. In this tutorial, we will show you how you can add author’s twitter, facebook, linkedin, or any other contact info on the profile page.

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Dec 29, 2009
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How to Reset a WordPress Password from phpMyAdmin

Reset WordPress Password

Knowing how to reset your WordPress password from phpMyAdmin is one of the essential things you should know about because for some reason if your site is hacked, or something else, you are no longer able to login to your admin panel using the login information, and you are not able to reset the password via email, this method can be very useful.

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Dec 28, 2009
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Best WordPress Tutorials of 2009

Best of WPBeginner 2009

2009 has been a great year. It was the year this site was formed, it is the very same year that WordPress 2.9 was launched. During the year, many helpful articles were written on this site. In this article we will be highlighting Best of Best WordPress Tutorials of 2009.

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Dec 24, 2009
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Protect WordPress Against Malicious URL Requests

WordPress Security

In early September, many WordPress sites were infected with Malicious codes. We wrote a quick fix for that issue which you can see in this post, but recently Jeff Starr from Perishable Press has come with a solution to protect WordPress from future attacks as well.

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Dec 23, 2009
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How to Display Any Number of Posts in a WordPress Loop

Super Loop in WordPress

In this article, we will show you how to override the default setting by using a Super Loop which will allow you to display any number of posts in that specific WordPress loop. This will allow you to customize the display of your pages including author profiles, sidebars, and more.

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Dec 21, 2009
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Most Notable Features in WordPress 2.9

WordPress 2.9

List of most notable and mind-blowing features that are expected in WordPress 2.9. Download WordPress 2.9 release candidate now and play your role in the community by downloading the release candidate and testing all features.

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Dec 17, 2009
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WordPress World Map – Tag Yourself Now

WP World Map

This interesting idea was brought to our attention during WordCamp NYC. WP World Map created by Oliver Schlobe allows you to geo tag yourself on a World Map. Using this map, you can get connected with local WordPress users in your area. This is a great tool for both developers and WordPress users.

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Dec 4, 2009
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How to Display Twitter Avatars in WordPress Comments

Twittar

As you know that WordPress has an option to display gravatars in the comment for your users. Well sometimes users don’t have a gravatar account, but they have a twitter account. In this article we will share a way for you to combine gravatar and twitter avatars to display in your comment area.

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Nov 20, 2009
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