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You can create two types of blogs with WordPress: WordPress.com hosted and self-hosted by installing WordPress on your web host. I’m not going to cover the difference between these two, but I’ll tell you how to find out owner’s information of WordPress blogs of both types. Again, reason to contact owner can be anything, a request for guest post, content take-down, or advertising etc. This guide comes in handy when you are not able to find how to reach to the author of a WordPress based blo...

We all are well aware of that dynamic, human readable timestamp; and the best example demonstrating it are the tweets and posts in our social media feeds. Below is a screen capture that flaunts the beauty of that timestamp showing itself off in minutes, hours and days. Now, you want the same thing on your WordPress blog—i.e. you want your WordPress posts with dynamic date and time—in days, hours and minutes ago format. This is pretty much a coder’s thing, but this post is all about maki...

When you upload and add images in your WordPress posts, you might have noticed the dimensions that it adds to the image automatically. Same goes with the post thumbnails, they also carry some auto-generated thumbnail markup. The dimension markup is nothing but the width and height attributes that resize images in the post. But these dimension attributes may create problems with a responsive layout. Take a look at the highlighted section in the below given code, that’s what I’m talking about:...

WordPress automatically adds its current Version number to the head section of the themes. If you view the source of a WordPress-based website, you may find out the WordPress version it is using. Below given is the meta tag that carries that version information and can be spotted when you right-click and view source of a WordPress site: <meta name="generator" content="WordPress 4.3.1" /> This extra information about CMS version is added by WordPress itself in order to ke...

Icon fonts allow you to add resolution-independent, multicolor icons to your web design projects. There are many icon fonts out there available for free, but Font Awesome is the name that dominates all. Using Font Awesome is pretty simple. After adding all those FA assets to your project, you just have to use <i> or <span> HTML tags with the Font Awesome default (.fa or .icon) and icon classes to show up the icons. With WordPress navigation menus, you don’t have the freedom to add ...

The default WordPress search is the only thing that used to annoy me a lot and I wasn’t using it on any of my WordPress sites. There are a number of reasons back then to stop using WordPress search feature, and the best one for me was it throwing unrelated links in the site search results. However, we can tweak the traditional search feature a bit to make it better and keep using it on our sites. Well, this post is not about why WordPress search is bad, it’s about how to forbid or disable Wo...