Custom excerpts are better for UI/UX because in their absence, most WordPress themes will just grab text from your content. But writing custom excerpts of proper length can be tricky. What you need is a character counter on your WordPress excerpt box!
WordPress
WordPress is by far the most popular content management system in the world. So, naturally, I love it and have quite a bit to say about it. My WordPress posts may be slightly biased towards code hacks (as opposed to simpler configuration tweaks), but well, I'm a software guy... So, no apologies.
“Hacking” A WordPress Password
Locked out of your WordPress website? No worries. This article explains how a server administrator can either force reset a user’s WordPress password or create a new WordPress admin user with a brand new password. Database and FTP methods are described.
Remove NoFollow From JetPack Related Posts Links
By default JetPack adds a nofollow attribute to all links in the related posts section. You can use this PHP code snippet to remove/disable this nofollow attribute.
How To Disable Jetpack Publicize For WooCommerce Products
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While the Jetpack Publicize feature is a really handy and time saving feature for blog posts, it is probably not such a great idea for WooCommerce products. This post contains a quick functions.php code snippet that helps disable Jetpack Publicize only for WooCommerce Products.
Working With AJAX In WordPress
AJAX has become THE way to build user friendly and dynamic websites. With AJAX, you can update the contents of a page without doing a full page reload. Most websites need this behavior. Read this post to learn how to implement AJAX on WordPress sites.
How To Echo Into A Variable Using PHP Output Buffering
“Echo” is a very handy PHP language construct used to output one or more strings. But echo writes to output directly. So it isn’t very straightforward to save the output of echo into a variable for later use. To do this, you need PHP output buffering.