WordPress Archives

Tips and Tricks on WordPress usage and development. I am very passionate about WordPress, but it doesn’t work just by itself – it needs a rich environment to live and breathe in.

If you’re after theme and plugin alterations, we have a category for that.

How to display Jetpack stats per post in WordPress

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Some websites employ this or similar technologies to show how many views a single post has had. I was wondering how they did that without starting to count stats that have already been counted for several years, either by Google or by Jetpack.

Yesterday I came across this post by a WordPress dev named Topher about how to render Jetpack Stats: http://wpgr.org/2013/03/02/rendering-jetpack-stats/

I decided to test this in TwentyThirteen, and it works a treat – here’s how to do it. The principle will of course work with any theme.

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Zen Dash – Version 1.5 released

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I’ve just released an update to my Zen Dash plugin. Besides adding funky zen-bamboo artwork to the WordPress.org page, I’ve made the following minor amendments: the option to hide the Jetpack menu now only shows up when Jetpack is activated, otherwise it’s hidden I’ve verified compatibility with the immanent release of WordPress 4.4 added funky … Read more

How to avoid hyphenations in TwentyFifteen by Automattic

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By default, TwentyFifteen will hyphenate text on posts and pages. This works well for most, but some find this feature annoying. It’s easy to override with a small CSS tweak – let me show you how. Here’s what a post might look like by default: Notice the hyphenations in lines 3 and 4. Now add … Read more

WordPress 111: Users, Roles and Capabilities

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In this video I’ll show you the multi-user capabilities of WordPress: how to create new users, and what capabilities the different user roles have over your WordPress site. This feature comes in handy if you collaborate with other users: each user can create posts, but such users can be restricted from deleting other people’s posts, … Read more