Wordpress

All websites are plagued by bots. Some are good bots. Some are bad bots. Some are damn right malicious bots. Here are few tips to help WordPress websites defend themselves from bad bots and control the flow of good bots. The Do’s Configure the web server Use Wordfence. Use a cache plugin. Enable page caching … Read more

People love hitting those random posts. What better way is there to keep people on a website than by giving them a random post button to push. Pushing that button is like pulling a leaver on a slot machine: ya never know when you’re going to hit Jackpot. Add a random post button to your … Read more

This is part two of JournalXtra’s WordPress Shortcodes tutorial. This part of the tutorial shows how to make shortcodes using the functions written in active plugins, active themes and in the WordPress core scripts. Part one of this tutorial series is here. WordPress is a collection of scripts used together to make web content management … Read more

Let’s get rid of the ‘foo bar’ rubbish and use real human words to learn how to make WordPress shortcodes. This guide to writing shortcodes starts with basic examples and gradually builds up to more complex ones. The example shortcodes are written to be easy to adapt to your own needs. Code examples used in … Read more