A Beginner’s Guide to Showing Simple Notices in WordPress
When you go to a popular blog or website, you may have noticed they tend to show you a message before you read the content. Typically, this is called a simple notice or a pop-up. You can close it and move onto the site, but for the website owner, it’s an opportunity to advertise, greet new users or show an announcement to their followers. In this WordPress tutorial, you will discover how you can use these simple notices to increase user engagement. Displaying these notices in WordPress isn’t difficult and any user can do it. Using the Simple Notices WordPress …
What Every WordPress Users Should Know About Site-Specific WordPress Plugins
Site-specific WordPress plugins can help you customize your website in many ways. You can add a ton of extra functionality and create a WordPress website that does just what you want it to do. However, most beginners won’t understand what this term is all about. In this WordPress Tutorial, you will discover what a site-specific plugin is, how it works and how you can create one for your WordPress website. What are Site-Specific Plugins? A site-specific WordPress plugin is one that the site owner creates to add snippets of code into the functions of the website. These plugins usually help …
Should You Enable Automatic Updates for Major Releases of WordPress?
Updates in WordPress are often vital to your security. Some of the updates just add a few features, but many of the major updates will actually fill in some of the security holes. These are very important and you need to make sure you enable automatic updates for major releases of WordPress. In this WordPress Tutorial, you will discover how to set your major WordPress Releases to update automatically. You may have already disabled automatic updates because of the customization of your website. However, this post will show you how to turn on the major updates, so that you don’t …
Can you Change the Author URL Slug in WordPress?
Changing the Author URL Slug in WordPress is pretty easy. The default URL for your author page provides an SEO friendly structure, if you make the right changes in your permalinks section. In this WordPress Tutorial, you will discover how to change the URL Slug and URL Base for your author URL. What is a URL Slug? The slug, in WordPress terminology is the part of the URL that comes at the end of the URL. It’s usually the title of a post or page with a “-” separating every word. The post slug can easily be changed when you …
A Guide to Displaying Last Week’s Post on Your WordPress Blog
If you’d like to display your most recent blog posts, but you want to do it by displaying your last week’s posts, you can do so with the help of a WordPress plugin. Yes, this can be coded into our WordPress website, but it’s much easier to use a plugin for beginners. In this WordPress tutorial, we will show you how to use the recent posts widget extended plugin to let you show different sets of recent posts on your WordPress blog. The Recent Posts Widget Extended Plugin The first major updated to this plugin is on the way and …
Can You Receive Email Notifications Whenever a Post is Changed in WordPress?
If you’re trying to run a multi-author WordPress website, you may want to receive a notification whenever a post has been changed. This will help you to stay on top of everything and keep your site running smoothly. In this WordPress tutorial, we will show you how to set up WordPress for email notifications whenever a post changes. These emails will be automatic and instant, which will allow you to stay up-to-date with all the changes on the site. Using the Email Post Changes Plugin The easiest way to make sure you get a notification for any post changes is …
Can You Disable New User Notifications in WordPress?
WordPress provides a number of user notifications for registered users. The admin will get a notification every single time a new user has registered, which can get annoying after a while. If you have a number of new users registering every week, you will see a ton of emails in your inbox. In this tutorial we will show you how to stop these new user notifications. Using the Disable New User Notification Emails Plugin With the Disable New User Notification Emails plugin, you can easily get rid of these notifications from your email box. This plugin will simply disable these …
The Easiest Way to Create a Job Board Without HTML in WordPress
Have you considered starting a WordPress website with a job board or adding one to your current site? This doesn’t have to be an overwhelming task. Whether you know how to write HTML code or not, you can create a job board without using any code at all. In this WordPress tutorial we will show you exactly how to create a job board in WordPress. Using the WP Job Manager Plugin for WordPress The easiest way to create a job board in WordPress is with a plugin. When you download, install and activate the WP Job Manager plugin, you will …
Which WordPress Theme is Best for a Musician or Band?
Bands and musicians need websites today to promote their music, gigs and style. It provides a great central location to connect with fans, along with the big social media sites. If you’ve chosen to use WordPress for your band or musician website, you need the right theme. Here are the top theme choices for your musical WordPress website. SoundStage Theme SoundStage is the perfect theme for a band for many reasons. It will help you make a good impression and provides all the necessary information in a hurry. You can list your upcoming gigs, include an audio player and even …
Can You Let Your WordPress Users Upload Pictures in the Comments Section?
Using images in any way can be very powerful. Comments are another very powerful part of your WordPress blog. When you combine the two of these and allow users to post pictures in the comment section, you can really explode your blog. In this WordPress tutorial, you will discover how to allow your WordPress users to upload images in the comment section. The main benefit you will gain from this is better user engagement, which can lead to a number of other benefits. Using the Comment Images Plugin As with most things, allowing users to upload images in the comment …