So we all know that everything is going mobile. Tech pundits are encouraging users to at least have a mobile version of their site. Most popular sites like NYTimes, CNN, etc. have their own mobile apps along with mobile versions. We recently saw bunch of other WordPress related blogs releasing their own iPhone apps. Yes, you are probably wondering what the heck are we doing? Why haven’t we launched our own mobile version or an app yet. Well, we used…
Continue Reading »How to Add Default Post Thumbnail Images In WordPress
We posted an article about how to set a default fallback image for WordPress post thumbnails in which we explained how you can add some code to your WordPress theme in order to have default fallback post thumbnails. One of our readers pointed us to a plugin that does the same thing except that it also gives you a backend visual display of the image you selected. This is a solution for beginners who do not want to get their…
Continue Reading »How to Add a Featured Image Column to Your WordPress Admin Panel
For those of you who do not know how to add post thumbnails (featured images) yet you should read our article on how to add post thumbnails in WordPress. If you already know how to do this then you will understand how useful it would be to have all of your featured images added to the ‘edit posts’ page rather than having to open each post individually to see them. This is exactly what the Featured Image Column Plugin does….
Continue Reading »How To Prevent Skype From Overwriting/Hijacking Your WordPress
Have you ever created what you thought was the perfect contact page only to have Skype mess it all up by linking all of the phone numbers? Well, if you are tired of that happening there are a couple ways you can fix it. Recently we discussed one method in our article how to fix Skype overwriting numbers in WordPress themes. If you don’t want to deal with the code, then you can just use the Prevent Skype Overwriting plugin….
Continue Reading »How to create Compact Archives in WordPress
After a few years of blogging you will see how a WordPress archive can quickly get out of hand. What you need is a way to compress everything so that your posts are easier to find. Although we have already shown you how you can customize the display of WordPress archives in your sidebar, today we are going to use a plugin called Compact Archives for WordPress. There are two ways you can use this plugin. The first involves a…
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