Disabling WordPress Core and Remote Block Patterns

With WordPress’ templates, patterns, and template parts, you can conveniently and quickly create web pages. You can create these yourself, and some themes come packed with these building blocks to give you a head-start. Unfortunately, WordPress also loads a ton of random patterns, from core as well as remote. I bumped into this annoying ‘feature’ … Read more

Customizing the Genesis Entry Footer – all taxonomy on one line

Customizing the Genesis Entry Footer

In last week’s post, we added a custom taxonomy named ‘brands’ to the Genesis Sample Theme of ThemingWP. To display this new taxonomy in the entry footer of posts, we need to update the Genesis Entry Footer. This post starts with an introduction of the WordPress Meta Data, and the Genesis Post Meta, followed by … Read more

Creating a custom taxonomy in WordPress

custom taxonomy in WordPress

Over at ThemingWP, we wanted to introduce a new taxonomy – brands. A taxonomy dedicated to theme vendors like StudioPress and WooThemes. Brands would become the third taxonomy, next to the default categories and tags. The names of the vendors were already in the database – as tags. This means we had to extract the … Read more

An intelligent Recent Posts widget with posts from other blogs

RSS concept on wilwebs.org

In last week’s post we explored the options for displaying recent posts from HostingCaddie, ThemingWP, and this blog on wilwebs.org. With the proper plugin, displaying post excerpts – or even the full post content – is a piece of cake. What I prefer though, is a simple list resembling WordPress’ default recent posts widget, but … Read more

Four plugins for embedding RSS feeds

3D RSS icon

WPfy.me has two sister blogs, ThemingWP and HostingCaddie. These three blogs reside under the umbrella of wilwebs.org. A widget that I include on all three blogs is the Recent Posts widget. Over at the site of wilwebs.org, I am not publishing anything yet. The site merely acts as a hub for the three blogs. Because … Read more

Adding a Read More link to excerpts of StudioPress Whitespace Pro

StudioPress Whitespace Pro Header

A user of the StudioPress Whitespace Pro theme told me that, generally, he was happy with the theme. What he found missing though, was a Read More link at the end of post excerpts. Is it possible to include a Read More link in post excerpts? Well, yes. Displaying Read More in post excerpts is … Read more

Putting your foot down – keep the footer at the bottom of the page

Keep the footer at the bottom of the page

While setting up a new website, have you ever experienced that the page footer is floating somewhere halfway the page? Usually this resolves itself as soon as you start publishing content. But when you also publish smaller posts, or use post formats and publish for example links and quotes, you might encounter those mid-air footers … Read more

Mobile plugins for WordPress compared

Mobile plugins for WordPress compared

As you probably know, Google has changed its search algorithm again. This time to benefit mobile searchers. Since April 21, mobile users of Google search are presented results not only relevant to their query, but also leading to sites offering a positive user experience on mobile devices. Almost half of the search queries are executed … Read more

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