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How to Display Post Excerpts in WordPress Themes

Post Excerpts in WordPress

Some of our users wanted us to post a tutorial on how to display Post Excerpts in WordPress Themes. This is a very simple tutorial that anyone can implement and take advantage of this built-in feature. The benefit of implementing this tutorial is that it decreases page load time and it increases the pageview count.

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Jan 17, 2010
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Adding a Custom Dashboard Logo in WordPress for Branding

Custom WordPress Dashboard Logo

When creating themes for clients, you might want to provide them with some administrative branding. The first and easiest way to do that is by replacing the WordPress logo with your Custom Logo in the admin dashboard.

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Jan 15, 2010
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How to Display an Author List with Avatars in WordPress Contributors Page

Author List Avatar

In this article we will show you how you can create a contributors page which will display a list of authors with avatars or userphoto and any other information that you like. This tutorial is an intermediate level tutorial.

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Jan 14, 2010
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How to Make Sticky Posts in WordPress

Make Sticky Posts

We have written about how to display recent sticky posts in WordPress, but we never covered how to make sticky posts which was our shortcoming because one of our users asked us this question. Making Sticky Posts in WordPress is really easy.

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Jan 1, 2010
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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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