With the popularity of WordPress with ever expanding list of features, it’s now being used more as a CMS for a website than a blog. With this, more and more people have to move the WordPress form a sub-directory to root of a website to properly setup website. For all of its pages and posts,…
WordPress slowly but surely has become the most popular open source CMS but most users did not start using it as a CMS for their websites. I also started using WordPress as Blogging Platform and had a custom built CMS to manage rest of my website. But with the arrival of WordPress 3.x, lot of…
One of the best features in the WordPress 3.x is the ability to add multiple Menus from pages, posts, customs posts types or even just anything as you desire. It’s very easy to first register custom menu in the admin panel and then call in your theme files and style them as you want. To…
In WordPress, Custom Post Type is great feature to manage your custom content such as portfolio which can’t be managed properly with the default posts or pages type. One of the problem in working with custom post types is the pagination issue. If you are viewing the same records on the next or third page…
Custom Post Types is very useful way to add Custom Manager in the WordPress. I have been using More Types with lot of success. One of the problem that I usually get while setting up is the permalinks structure for the custom post using More Types Plugin or any other Custom Post type plugin is…
The New Menu system in WordPress 3.x works great. It allows you to create multiple menus and add multi-level menus easily without any hackery. Although many users have their upgraded their WordPress installations, many old themes still do not support latest Menu system. Since it requires some coding, let’s see how can this be enabled…
Gravity Forms is a great WordPress plugin to add and manage forms on your blog. While setting up multiple Gravity Form on one WordPress powered website, I had issue with tab index. Both Gravity forms had the same tabindex number and it was not working properly. I tried to search something Gravity Forms support forums…
Gravity Forms is hands down the best contact form plugin for WordPress. Gravity Forms WordPress Plugin allows you to quickly build and design your WordPress forms using the form editor. You just need to select your fields, configure your options, and easily embed forms on your WordPress powered site using the built in tools. Although…
WordPress shortcodes are great for adding great features easily and efficiently using plugins into your posts and pages. The problem with shortcodes is that they don’t work when added outside the loop. Shortcodes are usally added in the content text area for added functionality. For instance, if yuo wanted to add Gravity Form into your…
To get a permalink and Post Title outside of the standard WordPress post loop, you have to use the get_permalink() function. This function takes a post ID as argument, and returns the permalink: <h2><a href="<?php echo get_permalink($post->ID); ?>" >Read the article</a></h2> If you want to get the Post Title and excerpt too, you can…
Usually, in a WordPress blog or website, we do not need to list posts or pages by alphabetical order but with more and more people using the Custom Post Types and adding topics and sections in their website which do need alphabetical listing such as a if you have created Custom Post Type for Movies,…
While working on a WordPress website, I created a new custom template for Custom Post Type records but faced very weird problem. Since I was using More Types Plugin, Post type template select drop down was empty. It displayed neither the default templates nor my custom created template for that Post Type. Initially I thought…
Using WordPress, if you create Custom Post Type and while adding records you also post them under standard Posts Categories or Sub categories, they won’t appear under the listing of those categories standard posts. To resolve this and include Custom Post Type records in the categories listing, add the following code in your theme functions.php…
WordPress 3.x comes with the ability to create Custom Post Types and which makes it very simple for developers to extend WordPress and use it as a proper CMS for any business need. Apart from the default Posts and Pages, you can now create custom types to better manage content, and make it easier for…
Mingle Forum is very useful WordPress Plugin that allows you to quickly put a Forum on your WordPress site/blog. Email notifications in Mingle Forums is one area which needs improvement. My client wanted a feature where every member would get email notifications for any new topic started by any user. Since it’s not available in…