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Sometimes you need to move a WordPress site from a folder to the root. Why would you move a WordPress site from a folder to the root? Well, in some cases, WordPress has been installed into a folder, and the root was redirected to that folder via htaccess. Google doesn’t like empty roots… So for [...]

Sometimes you might need to copy a live WordPress site from the server to your local Windows PC to do some tweaking for a client. In this tutorial I will show all the necessary steps to copy the WordPress installation and make notes on things that might go bad along the way. I assume you [...]

There are cases where you want just a section of the content to appear on the home or category page and that people should click on a link to read the rest of the article. The default WordPress behavior is that if you insert  the “read more tag” into the content it will split the [...]

In this tutorial you will learn the basic SEO rules to follow when adding posts to your WordPress blog and how to use YOAST WordPress SEO plugin to optimize the blog content. Basic SEO rules for your WordPress blog If you’re reading this you probably already heard about SEO and you want to get a [...]

In this tutorial you will learn how to automatically generate and submit a sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools from your WordPress installation. Once your site is up and running you might want to take some steps to optimize the site for search engines so you could get some more traffic. But before you start learning [...]

In this tutorial I will show you how easy is to create posts that are restricted to the general public and only available for users belonging to a specific category. To do this, we need 3 things: a way to mark a post as being available to a specific category of users a way to [...]

Let’s say you’re building a plugin that needs to display a list of database entries in a special page in the WordPress dashboard. Something that looks like this:   I have covered previously how to create a new page in the WordPress admin dashboard so let’s see now how you can select the database content [...]

If you’re building a plugin, you will probably get to the point where you would like to include files from the plugin folder. As building a plugin means the code should work no matter how the blog is configured, you should use a function that retrieves the path to the plugin folder, then hardcode only [...]

Do you want to make a separator between posts in WordPress (and don’t know how to handle the last post case where you don’t need to show the separator?) This requires a bit of coding, but it’s quite easy to do. There are a few steps needed to create a WordPress posts separator: identify what [...]

In one of the previous tutorials I have shown how to create a new page in the WordPress Admin dashboard where you can create additional settings fields. If you followed that tutorial, you probably now have an empty page that shows in the WordPress admin menu. In this tutorial I will explain how to create [...]