Once logged into WordPress you'll notice a number of Administration Menus to the left of the Dashboard screen. For various reasons you may want to hide some of the menu items. To remove Administration Menus from the Dashboard just add the following PHP code to your functions.php file.In the PHP … [Read more...] about Remove Administration Menus from WordPress
How to use LESS CSS in WordPress
CSS is awesome. CSS defines the look and layout of a Website. Most of the latest versions of Internet Browsers such as Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera and Internet Explorer are CSS3 compatible/compliant. Scripting in CSS however requires scripting in 'long-form' and is very limited in allowing for … [Read more...] about How to use LESS CSS in WordPress
Style the WordPress Post editor
Often, in WordPress, the changes you make in the Post and Page editor (also called TinyMCE editor or Visual Editor) aren't what you see when the Post or Page is published on your Website. Fortunately it's simple, with just a little bit of code, to see the colours and other style that you use with … [Read more...] about Style the WordPress Post editor
Autofocus on Feedburner Subscribe Form
There are some seriously awesome 'tricks' available in HTML5 that would previously have needed Javascript to accomplish. One of these is the Autofocus attribute for forms. What this helps accomplish is have the cursor 'focused' in the required form field as the Webpage is loaded. I've seen numerous … [Read more...] about Autofocus on Feedburner Subscribe Form
How to add Twitter follow button to WordPress
My dissertation to complete my MBA (way back in 2006) was on 'Market Entry strategies of Online Retailers'. The point was to determine the best way for a new ecommerce Site to become successful in a very competitive Online environment. It is so inexpensive to setup an Online store nowadays that it's … [Read more...] about How to add Twitter follow button to WordPress
Display the number of Posts on your Blog
I've published over 400 Posts on my WordPress Website over the years. Most Posts relate to WordPress or Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and range from thoughts on SEO right through to more technical WordPress development tips. There are various Plugins and widgets that allow for easily showing the … [Read more...] about Display the number of Posts on your Blog
How to make WordPress Suffusion footer full width
Over the years I've published many Posts on how to configure the very popular Suffusion Theme for WordPress. There are a multitude of styling options available in Suffusion but there is one that is asked for quite frequently that requires adding a bit of JavaScript as well as CSS. Here then is how … [Read more...] about How to make WordPress Suffusion footer full width
How to Redirect a Subfolder to Subdomain with htaccess
I recently had the need to move a WordPress Website from a subfolder on Godaddy hosting to a subdomain on Hostgator hosting. I used Backupbuddy to move the Site but the Site wasn't displaying correctly i.e. it looked like the style.css files wasn't being read. I installed the Search and Replace … [Read more...] about How to Redirect a Subfolder to Subdomain with htaccess