Have you ever worked on a project which required you to customize the display of the WordPress admin panel? Well one of the first things consultants customize is the WordPress Dashboard. We showed you a quick example of how to add custom dashboard widgets in WordPress. In this article, we will show you how to remove WordPress dashboard widgets. Note: If you ended up on this article looking for how to remove dashboard widgets just for yourself, then you should…
Continue Reading »How to Add Placeholder Text in Gravity Forms
If you don’t know already, Gravity Forms by far is the most beginner friendly WordPress contact form plugin out there. We use it on our WordPress Gallery site, WordPress Coupons site, and pretty much all new clients as well. Recently while working on a client’s site we had to tweak the styling of the form to match the design which required us to put placeholder text in Gravity Forms. Unfortunately and surprisingly, this feature is not built-in to Gravity Forms…
Continue Reading »How to Create Additional Image Sizes in WordPress
Last month there was a huge vulnerability spotted in a famous image resizing script known as TimThumb. Since then the community has collaborated and fixed the issues. While TimThumb is a viable option, we believe that WordPress theme developers should focus on using the core functions rather than relying on third party scripts. In this article we will show you how to add additional image sizes in WordPress. WordPress has a built-in feature Post Thumbnails aka Featured Images. There is…
Continue Reading »How to Use Shortcodes in your WordPress Sidebar Widgets
We showed you how to add a shortcode in WordPress, then we also showed you how you can use shortcodes in your WordPress Themes. In this article, we will show you how to use shortcodes in your WordPress sidebar. First thing you need to do is open your theme’s functions.php file and paste this code: Now all you have to do is go to your Appearance » Widgets Screen and create a text widget. Then you can paste any shortcode…
Continue Reading »How to Embed an External RSS Feed in WordPress Posts via Shortcode
Have you ever seen showcases like 25 best XYZ sites to follow? Usually these tutorials have the site name, site screenshot, a small description, and the list of recent posts. The main issue with those posts are the list of recent posts which gets outdated overtime because most authors manually create those links at the time of writing. That post is really outdated as soon as any one of those other sites publish a new post. Well in this article,…
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