Archives for 2010

When we launched our first content-heavy WordPress site, we never thought blog post titles would be a problem. Some of our longer titles were breaking our beautiful layout, while others just looked messy on mobile devices. Through years of managing multiple WordPress sites and helping… Read More »

Most hyped up WordPress 3.0 has been officially released. WordPress 3.0 is one of the thirteenth major release of WordPress open-source platform. Along with some of the most impressive features, this release also fixed 1217 bugs. Some of our favorite features include: Twenty Ten Theme, Advanced Menus, Custom Post Types, and ability to upgrade multiple plugins from the plugins page.

Majority of the top themes have the quick edit button included, but there are still theme designers that fail to include this simple feature in a theme. In this article, we will show you how you can add a quick edit button in your WordPress posts and comments.

We’ve created many WordPress plugins over the years, helping both ourselves and thousands of users. Many of our readers have asked us how they can make their own plugins too. Making a WordPress plugin might seem hard at first, but it’s actually quite fun and… Read More »

One of the most common issues we see while reviewing WordPress websites is outdated copyright dates in the footer. It’s a small detail that can make your site look neglected and unprofessional to visitors. After working with many businesses at WPBeginner, we realized that many… Read More »

Since version 2.9, WordPress has introduced the ability to use custom post types. Now with version 3.0, things are taken a bit further with the option of creating panels for your custom post types. In this tutorial, we will show you how to implement Custom Post types in your site into your WordPress site.

Do you want to disable the automatic formatting in WordPress posts? WordPress is designed for user-friendliness, so it automatically formats text, including replacing quotes with fancy quotes and doing general text cleanup. However, this prevents users from displaying code, raw text, and CSS/JavaScript code examples.… Read More »

Email lists are still one of the fastest ways to get loyal following and exposure to your new ventures. The only problem that most bloggers have is the money that is involved into building your email list. In this article, we will show you how you can build a huge email list for free by using WordPress.

One thing we’ve found helpful while running our multi-author WordPress blog is customizing author profiles. Sometimes, the default profile fields just don’t fit our needs. Removing these default fields can give you more control over how authors are presented, which is important if you’re representing… Read More »

WordPress 3.0 is when the big merge happens. The core of WPMU is incorporated in WordPress which means that you can now run multiple blogs from one installation of WordPress. This new feature is being called Network or Multi-site option. By default this feature is disabled. If you want to use this option in your WordPress, then you would have to enable it.