The benefit of using WordPress to power your blog is that you don’t need to edit any PHP files and use thousands of ready themes available for free. If you’re like me, you’d prefer to keep away from major editing of the theme files and prefer to use the right assortment of plugins to get the job done. If you’re looking to add text before post content in WordPress, you can either edit your theme files or check out Add to All, a plugin I released a while back. Add to All is a powerful plugin that will allow you…

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Thank you for everyone who participated in the ThemeFuse WordPress theme giveaway. Below are the three winners of the same. Aakarshan Theme: NEWSSETTER devnullius Theme: Envision Gio Theme: Envison ThemeFuse will be contacting you shortly with the details on how to receive your theme.

Two days back I took the decision to move from All in One SEO to Yoast’s WordPress SEO plugin. WordPress SEO automatically adds several new columns to the posts admin screen. Coupled with the columns that Jetpack adds, along with those added by my Top 10 and Where did you go from here plugins, I ended up with the post title column being one character long! To fix this view, I needed to disable the columns from displaying via the Screen Options dropdown available in every admin screen. In this post, I’ll guide you through the screen options in the…

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Back in January, Jeffro announced that WPTavern may no longer be regularly updated. However, over the past few weeks, I’ve been following the new posts at the blog by the new owner. And, yesterday WPTavern opened its doors to writers worldwide to contribute to making the website a highly successful WordPress community. In the near future, WPTavern will become an authoritative website. It’s not about publishing 100 articles a day, but publishing content that is interesting and, providing research/back story to that content. I like to think of WPTavern as an ongoing diary as to what is happening within the…

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Update: This giveaway has ended and winners have been declared. We are excited to announce that ThemeFuse has been thoughtful enough to share 3 WordPress themes licenses with our lucky readers. There’s nothing like free stuff to brighten your day! The winners of this exciting giveaway will have the chance to choose their favorite ThemeFuse theme, and download it completely free of charge. This is an extremely valuable opportunity if you are, or are planning to, use WordPress to power your website. We will be distributing 3 ThemeFuse vouchers. This is how you can get yours: Enter Now to Win…

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Recently the folks at Secunia contacted me regarding a vulnerability in my plugin Contextual Related Posts. Contextual Related Posts is a powerful plugin for WordPress that allows you to display a list of related posts on your website and in your feed. The plugin comes with a tonne of options and inbuilt caching that can possibly increase user retention. This vulnerability was on the settings page of the plugin and opened up the blog to a potential cross site request forgery (CSRF) The application allows users to perform certain actions via HTTP requests without performing proper validity checks to verify…

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We’ve rarely felt the need for charts here at Techtites. However, if you’re frequently running polls or displaying statistics or just simply trends, you’ll find a frequent need to display charts in your blog posts. Powered by HTML5 the Chart.js library allows you to add charts to your posts. If you pour over the documentation on Chart.js, you’ll see that integrating this on your blog does take a bit of work. WP Charts is a new WordPress plugin brings you this power with a simple use of WordPress shortcodes. WP Charts lets you create six different chart types including line…

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If you’ve been running a multi-author blog like us, over a period of time, you’ll see your list of tags growing exponentially. When I reviewed the number of tags on Techtites today, I noticed that this was well over 1,100 tags! So, I went into the Tags interface and immediately realised that I’m going to spend an hour just deleting and cleaning up tags. There are a few WordPress plugins available that allow you to manage tags and categories, including Term Management Tools. However, there isn’t a good free plugin to delete and clean up tags. So, with a bit…

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Everybody has heard of Contact Form 7 (we use it here on Techtites) as well as many of you might have got your hands on Gravity Forms. Besides these, there are several other lesser known contact form plugins that make it easy to collect information from your visitors. I’ve highlighted five of these below. Ninja Forms Create custom forms with a simple drag and drop interface. Contact forms, Email collection forms, or any other form you want on your WordPress site. Visit Ninja Forms homepage | Download Ninja Forms Breezing Forms Breezing Forms you can create simple and advanced desktop…

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I usually spend a good amount of time hunting for themes for WordPress, mostly discarding many just because they don’t fit the theme or the site or just don’t look good. The WordPress repository is the best place to start, but requires you to invest some time checking and testing out the themes to find the one. Below is a list of WordPress Themes that have been released in 2013 and stand out because they look good! Academica Academica is an education- and school-oriented CMS theme with a three-column layout and modern design. It is easy to customize and comes…

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