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Styling Sub Menus. 10 Useful Wordpress Search Code Snippets - Speckyboy Web Design Magazine. It is no secret that the standard search within WordPress is not the best.

10 Useful Wordpress Search Code Snippets - Speckyboy Web Design Magazine

The problem is that WordPress takes your search term far too literally, meaning, that if you were to type “search+code+wordpress” in to our search box above, it would return every post that contains those terms (in this case over 30 posts), even though we have no such post with in our database. So, in actual fact even though there are over 30+ results, our reader will never actually find what they are looking for. We have to improve this. Wordpress Plugin – jQuery Mega Menu Widget. Updated 2nd November 2012 Drop down mega menus are becoming more popular as an alternative to standard drop down menus.

Wordpress Plugin – jQuery Mega Menu Widget

This WordPress menu plugin will allow you to quickly and easily create drop down mega menus from any WordPress custom menu. The plugin can handle multiple mega menus per page, offers a choice of animation effects (fade or slide), the option to set the drop down sub-menu to full width plus the choice to activate the menu using either hover or click. Support » HTTP Error on image upload - STILL. Hey everyone.

Support » HTTP Error on image upload - STILL

I'm a relatively new WP user, and I'm running into that horrendous HTTP error on image upload. I have: 1) read Otto42's article: 2) deleted my wp-admin and wp-includes folders 3) downloaded a fresh copy of WP 2.8.2 4) uploaded the deleted directories fresh 5) changed permissions on my wp-content/uploads folder to 755, and then to 777 just to see if it helps 6) ensured that my Settings-Misc "store uploads" field is set to the default. 7) created an .htaccess file with the mod-security fix language in it and uploaded it to my domain root, the WP root, and the wp-admin directory. 8) set the permissions for the .htaccess files above to both 755 and 777 9) recreated the same problem in IE, FF, and Chrome. 10) ensured that I have the latest Flash and Shockwave installed. 11) tried uploading smaller images 12) deleted my "uploads" folder, removed all entries from the Media Library, and tried a brand new upload. 99) sacrificed a few chickens for good measure.

How to Customize the Logo in the Header of Studiopress's Agency Pro Theme. These days I have been trying to work on Studiopress’s Agency Pro theme.

How to Customize the Logo in the Header of Studiopress's Agency Pro Theme

I really wanted to put my own logo up in the upper left hand corner of the site. I was hoping to put an image and text. Dashicons. WordPress Caching: What’s the best Caching Plugin? Your WordPress blog getting sluggish?

WordPress Caching: What’s the best Caching Plugin?

Caching is a great technique for speeding up your blog and the WordPress community has a lot of caching plugins to choose from. Lets review each one and find out which caching solution will work best for your WordPress blog. Newer versions of these plugins may be available These benchmarks may not accurately reflect the current version of any of the plugins listed below. From this post, you should take away some important abilities of these plugins, but attempt to do some testing of your own. For those who ask, Tutorial9 uses W3TC. What Is Caching? Audio / Video support in Core « Make WordPress Core. Post Formats are a big feature in WordPress 3.6.

Audio / Video support in Core « Make WordPress Core

What you may not know is: there is now native support for Audio and Video in core! There has been great support for embeds by way of WP_Embed and oEmbed providers for a while, but, if you wanted to play an MP3 from your Media Library, you had to install a plugin. Supporting audio and video in core gives bands, podcasters, vloggers, et al the ability to easily and beautifully expresses themselves through sounds and moving pictures without using an external service. Adding Dashicons in WordPress. WordPress Dashicons List for Post Types. It’s very simple to use WordPress 3.8’s new icon font dashicons for a custom post type menu icon.

WordPress Dashicons List for Post Types

When you register a post type, set the menu_icon argument to the CSS class of the dashicon you wish to use. Check out the reference below for a list of available classes. Dashicons as menu_icon register_post_type( 'testimonials', array( 'public' => true, 'menu_icon' => 'dashicons-format-status', 'label' => 'Testimonials', 'supports' => array( 'title', 'editor', 'custom-fields' )) ); How to optimize Wordpress. Wordpress is an amazing CMS or Content Management System that makes creating and maintaining a website really easy.

How to optimize Wordpress

However at times it can cause high resource usage when not optimized properly. Why you should optimize WordPress Because WordPress makes it so easy to do a lot of things, this requires a lot of stuff going on in the background. Depending on the size and complexity of your website, as well as the traffic you receive, you'll want to pay extra close attention to making sure your WordPress site is optimized to handle the type of traffic you get. How to stop Search Engines from crawling your Website. In order for your website to be found by other people, search engine crawlers also sometimes referred to as bots or spiders, will crawl your website looking for updated text and links to update their search indexes with.

How to stop Search Engines from crawling your Website

Control search engine crawlers with robots.txt file Website owners, can instruct search engines on how they should crawl a website, by using a robots.txt file. When a search engine crawls a website, it requests the robots.txt file first and then follows the rules within. Edit or create robots.txt file The robots.txt file needs to be at the root of your site. How to optimize Wordpress. Disabling the wp-cron.php in WordPress. WordPress uses a file called wp-cron.php as a virtual cron job, or scheduled task in order to automate things like publishing scheduled posts, checking for plugin or theme updates, sending email notifications and more.

Disabling the wp-cron.php in WordPress

Have you tried the new WordPress Hosting plans? With speed and security built in, they make WordPress even easier than it is already. Style Genesis Themes without Writing Code - Genesis Design Palette Pro. Topic: Protect Login Page from Brute Force Login Attacks. For folks who DO NOT want/allow anyone else to login/register to their website. This .htaccess code will protect your WordPress Login page from Brute Force Login Attacks based on IP address, but keep in mind if you are allowing folks to login to your website then they will not be able to login. This .htaccess code is for folks who do not allow anyone else, but themselves to login to their website.

You can of course add additional IP address octets to allow other folks access to your login page. If you have a BuddyPress site then click this link for Anti-Spammer Registration code: The new aggressive experimental code in testing is looking like a winner so far. If you are using CloudFlare, a Proxy, a CDN, a VPN then see the: CloudFlare, Proxy, CDN, VPN section below. You will find your Server / Website IP Address and Public IP / Your Computer IP Address on the BPS System Info page.

Themocracy WordPress Themes. If you’re a theme developer, you’ll (perhaps) be looking at keeping up with the latest in javascript/AJAX and incorporating a few tweaks into your brand new theme – in some ways, it’s been made very easy for you (and in one or two ways it’s just a little tricky…) So, assuming you have a basic knowledge of PHP, theme design and javascript, here’s how it works:- Loading up jQuery WordPress arrives with jQuery already bundled, so this bit’s easy enough.

But we need to get it loaded onto the page, which doesn’t happen automatically… The plan here would be to get some nice tabbed divisions going, maybe in the sidebar, courtesy of jQuery. 01. <? 02.add_action('template_redirect', 'them_js_head_load'); 04.function them_js_head_load(){ Support » Jquery UI and WordPress. How do I add a simple jquery script to wordpress.

How to add FitText (or any other jQuery script) to your Genesis site. Adding jquery and custom scripts to a Wordpress theme. How do I add a simple jquery script to wordpress. WordPress Optimization Guide. Note: These plugins address mainly front-end optimization issues only. Genesis Tutorials — Tips, Tricks, and How-tos for the Genesis Theme Framework.

Add A Unique Sidebar to the Genesis Home Page — WordPress Consultant. A unique looking home page is often a desired look. This tutorial will be similar to Jen Baumann’s tutorial How to Show a Different Sidebar on Specific Pages only specific to the home page. One other sidebar quick tip, if your looking for unique sidebars elsewhere on the site you can also try Genesis Simple Sidebars plugin (which does not work for the home page). Genesis Code Snippets. Here is my collection of code snippets I use build child themes in Genesis. If it’s not here, please check out Bill Erickson’s Genesis Quick Tips, Gary’s Code, or Brian Gardner’s Code. Genesis Code Snippets. Here is my collection of code snippets I use build child themes in Genesis. How to remove page name from beginning of pages but NOT from posts.

Docmas, it’s better to edit functions.php on your desktop and upload via FTP after every update. That way if you break the site with a tiny PHP error, all it takes is fixing the error in the file on your desktop and re-uploading – and all it fine with the world after that. WordPress Custom Fields 101: Tips, Tricks, and Hacks. How to Create a Video and Image WordPress Slider with SlideDeck. How to Get Google's Verified Authorship for your WordPress Blog. Everyone is talking about how the search is going social. Google +1 buttons are now integrated in websites, search results, and even in Google Ads. Well all that is important, but we are now seeing a rise in verified Authorship for Google search results. Update (August 28, 2014): Google has announced that they’re killing Authorship, and search results will no longer show author names or photos. Finally with the new redesign, we have added it in WPBeginner as well.

Now when you search our articles, you will see the picture of our founder Syed Balkhi in the results like the screenshot below: We heard folks claiming that this is increasing click through rates and sometimes rankings as well. How to Secure your WordPress Pages with SSL. How to Build a Genesis Child Theme. How to Install Wordpress Manually Using cPanel in Under 5 Minutes. Wordpress is the most widely used, and fastest growing, content management system in existence, and is showing no signs of slowing down.

Most hosting companies make it even easier to install Wordpress by including a "1-click install" option, but this usually isn't the best choice. WordPress - add Adsense to your blog. Adding adsense is pretty easy - copy and paste the code where you want the ads to appear. How To Add Adsense In Wordpress - Wrap Adsense Ads With Content. 4 Plugins to Customize Where Widgets are Displayed. Over the years of using WordPress, I’ve found that not all pages are created equally. I may want recent posts on the archives, but I may want the “subscribe” widget only shown on posts. How to Setup a WordPress Development Environment for Windows.

Membership Options. Products. Minimalism in blog design, an experiment. Function Reference/wp enqueue script. 10 Tutorials Using Wordpress and JQuery. 30 Tutorials Combining Both Wordpress and jQuery. Including jQuery in WordPress (The Right Way) 20 More WordPress Code Snippets and Hacks. 20 Helpful Wordpress SQL Queries Snippets.