Bhagwad Park

WordPress’s taxonomy can be pretty confusing. First, we have the default separation between “posts” and “pages”. Then we have categories and tags. In addition, we can have custom post types which opens the door to an endless number of variations. Figuring out the interactions between the taxonomies can be tricky. For example, by default, “pages” […]

For a content platform built around articles and posts, WordPress does a pretty lousy job when it comes to displaying tables. Granted, they’re not usually part of standard articles and posts, but they add so much more to content, that there really should be a dedicated widget for them in the default editor. Perhaps it’s […]

It’s your worst nightmare come true. Your website has been hacked, and the attacker has changed your login password. Now you’re locked out of your website! But don’t worry. While it’s true that your site has been compromised, there’s a way for you to get it back. And if you act fast, you can limit […]

Sometimes you need to display a list of pages in a WordPress post. Perhaps you’re designing a 404 landing page and want to show the user all the pages on your site so they can navigate wherever they want. Or maybe you’re creating a knowledgebase of your site and want to create a user-friendly “sitemap” […]

Internal navigation elements within an article or post are gaining increasing prominence with search engines. With content becoming longer and longer, users need a way to quickly navigate large posts without getting lost. I’d earlier written a tutorial on how to create a “top of page’ button that allowed users to quickly navigate to the […]

Often while browsing, we see a site or a design that make us go “Wow, I want that on MY site”! In my earlier tutorial on how to change the font color in WordPress, we used Chrome “Inspect Element” tool to preview various CSS changes. And for simple modifications like font color, the inspection tool […]

PHP is the language of WordPress. It’s how all the plugins, themes, and WordPress itself are written. Each new version of PHP brings out new features, speed improvements, bug fixes, and security patches. And every new version of WordPress makes better use of the functionality of PHP. The development of WordPress and the development of […]

WordPress bylines are the little snippets of text that appear above each post. It’s usually different for each theme, and each site. Sometimes it includes the author name, sometimes, the last modified date, or published date. Whether or not it’s a good thing to include the byline is a subject of much debate. I think […]

How do you know how many visitors came to your site today? In the past week? The past month? There are plenty of solutions to this, and in this article, I’m going to compare two of the most popular solutions: Google Analytics WordPress Jetpack stats The first is a general purpose Javascript that works for […]

You’ve just installed a new theme. And you love it! However, there is one piece of text you don’t like. Or perhaps a graphic in a certain portion turns you off. “No problem.” you say to yourself. “This is WordPress – I can just modify the correct theme files”. Except that it’s not easy to […]