In this article, and the attached video, I will walk you through the process of allowing Facebook to "collect" the visitors of your WordPress web site into an "audience" that you can later advertise to from Facebook. First though, why would you want to do this? Well, when people visit your web … [Read more...] about How to Advertise to Your WordPress Visitors from Facebook
Upgrading the Core WordPress Custom Menu Widget
In this article, I walk through upgrading the Custom Menu widget for WordPress to offer the ability to use the Menu Name as the Title for the menu, without the redundancy of having to retype it. I do not hack the core to make these changes. I add code to the functions.php file of a child theme. That … [Read more...] about Upgrading the Core WordPress Custom Menu Widget
Adding a Custom Column to the Users Table in WordPress
In this tutorial I will explain how you can add a custom column to the users table in WordPress. I will go through an example of adding a custom field in the WP users table to display all post statuses and types at a glance. I used to find myself often in the "Screen Options" area of the users … [Read more...] about Adding a Custom Column to the Users Table in WordPress
2 Cool WordPress Mods: Sort by Facebook Likes, and Sort by View Count
This is a post for those who like to manipulate WordPress themes to behave how you like. I modified an existing theme recently to add a couple of new features that weren't already present on the theme. In addition I couldn't find a suitable plugin quickly enough so I went ahead and made some changes … [Read more...] about 2 Cool WordPress Mods: Sort by Facebook Likes, and Sort by View Count
Creating Customized Navigation Menu Using WordPress
Stop setting pages to draft to hide them from your WordPress menu. Learn to take full control of the navigation menus on your WordPress site! Gone, in fact... long gone, are the days where we need to hack the WordPress menu in order to remove "menu entries" from showing up. When done right (by … [Read more...] about Creating Customized Navigation Menu Using WordPress
AJAX Comment Loading Plugin Fixed
Recently I wanted to use the Ajax Comment Loading Plugin (developed by Mark Jaquith) on one of my WordPress sites. The functionality that plugin offers is very nice but it turns out that the plugin doesn't work for current version of WordPress anymore. I fixed the code a little to make it work … [Read more...] about AJAX Comment Loading Plugin Fixed
How to Change the URL of a WordPress Site
Sometimes the URL or domain for a WordPress site is no longer appropriate. This could be for several reasons. Perhaps everything was setup using a different domain (like localhost) for testing purposes. Maybe, it was installed in a folder and now needs to shine at the root of the site. Maybe the … [Read more...] about How to Change the URL of a WordPress Site
How To Create an Attractive Subscribe & Follow Box For Your WordPress Blog
Your WordPress blog isn't the only place that you should be adding fresh content to. It's important these days to also add new content to social networks as well. Most of the time, webmasters create profiles and pages on social sites that are specific to just one web site (or niche that they are … [Read more...] about How To Create an Attractive Subscribe & Follow Box For Your WordPress Blog
How to Fix the Unable to create directory Error in WordPress
If you are seeing any of the following errors when you try to upload/import media into WordPress's media library then this tutorial is for you. It will show you how to fix this annoying error. Unable to create directory wp-content/uploads Unable to create directory /wp-content/uploads/ Is … [Read more...] about How to Fix the Unable to create directory Error in WordPress
How to Use Firebug to Modify Your WordPress Site’s CSS (Video Tutorial)
Check out our new tutorial on how to do this using any browser's developer tools. In this video tutorial I will show you how you can customize the style of your WordPress site easily using a FireFox addon called Firebug. You can do the same thing using Google Chrome's inspector tool too. I will do … [Read more...] about How to Use Firebug to Modify Your WordPress Site’s CSS (Video Tutorial)