Recover WordPress Password When You Have Forgotten It

Did you forgot your WordPress blog admin password? No problem! it is not so complex to retrieve admin password.

How to Add Custom Post Types to Your Main WordPress RSS Feed

Custom Post Types was one of the most hyped feature of WordPress 3.0. This feature alone expanded the horizon of WordPress usage as a Content Management System (CMS). If you are using Custom Post Types, or thinking of custom post types, then you may have the urge to add it into your main RSS Feed. This option is not built-in by default because your main WordPress RSS feed only includes “Posts” not even pages, so custom post types are a long shot. In this article, we will share how you can add Custom Post Types to your main WordPress RSS feeds.

You would need to open your theme’s functions.php file and add the following code within the PHP markup:

How to Create a Separate Page for Blog Posts in WordPress

By default WordPress display your content in a blog format on the homepage. Users often modify for their needs by creating a custom home page in WordPress. What if you want to use WordPress to run your entire static site, and also use it as a blog? Well in this article, we will show you how to create a separate page for blog posts in WordPress.

There are few different methods you can use to create a separate page for blog posts. It all depends on which method you used to create the custom home page. If you created the homepage by creating a file called home.php, then you want to follow the method below:

1. First copy your index.php file and save it as blog.php.

Display Different Sidebar for Each Post and Page for WordPress

If you have been using WordPress, you probably have noticed that WordPress displays the same sidebar all across the site for most themes unless the designer himself created a custom homepage in which case the sidebar will be displayed on all pages but the homepage. In this article we will share a tutorial that will give you the option to choose a different sidebar to be displayed for each post and page for WordPress. This is an excellent snippet to bookmark for all WordPress theme designer and other users who would like to add this functionality.

This tutorial will combine the use of Custom Fields and the ability to call specific php templates. Therefore this tutorial has a prerequisite:

How to Display a Read More link in WordPress Excerpts

To prevent duplicate content, improve site load time, and for better SEO many bloggers have started to use post excerpts. Excerpts are mini-descriptions of the posts shown on the main blog page, category pages, and archive pages. You can see a live example by visiting any of our categories. But if you notice, our read more button is added on a separate line from the excerpt text. In this article, we will show you how to automatically add a read more link in WordPress Excerpts.

First open your functions.php file, and paste the following code inside the php tags:

 // Changing excerpt more
    function new_excerpt_more($more) {
    global $post;
    return '… <a href="'. get_permalink($post->ID) . '">' . 'Read More &raquo;' . '</a>';
    }
    add_filter('excerpt_more', 'new_excerpt_more');

How To Create A Custom WordPress Page Template

There may be times when you want to create a blog page or that looks different than a normal page. Or Perhaps you want to use WordPress to run your entire website but want the main page of your domain to look completely different than a typical blog. This is an easy way to customize WordPress that can be very easily accomplished by creating a custom WordPress page Template.

The first step is to create your desired page in HTML, I use an HTML editor since I am somewhat geek impaired and can’t actually write any code. In this case we are not going to add content to this page from within the dashboard so add all your meta tags for SEO. It will need a title, description, keywords, basically everything a regular static HTML page would need. After you create your new page you need to create a new WordPress page template. This can be done either in a text editor and FTP uploaded to your site or, since it is a small simple file you can create it directly in your hosting account’s control panel.