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Do you want to display a list of all authors on your WordPress blog? An author list will show at a glance who is writing for your blog and allow your visitors to more easily find content written by their favorite authors. In this article,… Read More »

Once you have installed WordPress, you will see there is one default post, one default comment, but surprisingly a plugin that comes pre-installed. This famous WordPress plugin is known as Akismet. It is not activated by default, and even to activate it, you have to take extra steps. In this article we will provide everything you need to know about Akismet from how to installing it to why you need it.

In this article we will share a way that you can use to allow your users to submit news or even posts to your WordPress site. You will get to moderate them like comments and approve the story that you choose to go live. You can even use Akismet for spam filter.

Do you want to restrict access to your WordPress admin area for security reasons? If you have a small team, then one good solution is to restrict access to only those IP addresses used by team members. In this article, we will show you how… Read More »

Yesterday, WPBeginner was facing some hacker attack. It was users trying to reset the password, but thankfully they could not get the random password because the site is not using the default admin user. But nonetheless it was an annoying thing to deal with. Hackers kept trying to reset our password and we had to deal with it for six times until we added more security layers.

Most themes ignore this feature which might be a single most important feature that you should have in your themes. In this tutorial, we will show you how you can setup auto discovery for your WordPress RSS Feeds.

WordPress has released another security release as version 2.8.3. This version fixed problems that were left in 2.8.2 so upgrade now. This is a security release so the upgrade should not be optional.

We can see the number of comments made in our dashboard, but our advertisers cannot see that. If you have a page for advertisers, you want to add this number to give them one more reason to buy advertisement on your site. Specially when you are selling ads towards the comment area.

Subcategories are great because it helps us sort content, but sometimes it looks ugly in the template. In this tutorial, we will show you how you can either hide the subcategories, or you can style them with one single code snippet.

Do you want to remove the visual editor mode in WordPress? The visual editor in WordPress provides a WYSIWYG interface for writing content. However, many users who are comfortable writing basic HTML prefer to use the text editor. In this article, we will show you… Read More »