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After sitting through Jane Well’s presentation and talking with her after her speech, we have decided to share with the WPBeginner community what is coming in WordPress 3.0 in terms of features.

Think about the last time you searched for something on a site. You probably scanned the results looking for your keywords, right? 🔍 That’s exactly what your website visitors are doing when they search your site. Except WordPress doesn’t highlight those terms by default. Setting… Read More »

When we build WordPress sites for clients, we often add custom widgets to the dashboard. It’s a simple way to show helpful notes, links, or instructions right where the user logs in. The default dashboard doesn’t always show the information people actually need. That’s why… Read More »

In this tutorial we will share how you can add a simple function on your search page which will display the search term and the number of results.

Do you want to display a list of related posts on your WordPress website and prefer to use code rather than a plugin? At WPBeginner, we often stress the importance of engaging your audience and keeping them exploring your content. One effective strategy we’ve seen… Read More »

In our many years of working with WordPress, one strategy we’ve consistently seen deliver results is targeting ads to search engine visitors. It seems that search engine visitors are more likely than your regular readers to click on targeted advertisements. By showing ads only to… Read More »

Running multiple sites, we quickly learned the default WordPress RSS feed wasn’t enough for our needs. It felt limiting and didn’t give us the control we wanted over our content distribution. This is a common frustration, and many don’t realize an uncustomized feed can lead… Read More »

In this article we will show you how you can utilize the new feature added in WordPress 2.9 to add post thumbnails easier than before.

Excerpts give visitors a short preview of your content, helping them quickly understand what each post is about and encouraging them to click through to read more. They’re especially helpful on blog listings, archive pages, and search results. Displaying post excerpts can also make your… Read More »

Ever wanted to showcase an important article on your WordPress site, keeping it front and center for all visitors to see? Sticky posts are the solution to this problem. We’ve used sticky posts countless times in our blogging projects to highlight everything from major announcements… Read More »