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How To Turn Off WordPress Theme Updates and Notifications

Disabling update of Themes, Plugins or Core WordPress is not recommended but if you want to stop updating your WordPress theme, you can go to Style.css file and make the version number high. High enough that the current version did not reach there in year. Eg, change version 5.0.1 to 100.0.1

Facing WordPress Spam? Try Akismet Plugin

The major challenge for a WordPress blog is not just security but also annoying spam on post, pages etc. if you are one who do not want to end up disabling commenting on your site, try Akismet plugin.

How to Add Google Fonts in Elgg

In order to add custom font from Google font on your Elgg powered website, you can make the following changes to import the code. Select form you want to use Edit the head file from the path as shown below and insert your import script. Once imported, you can write custom CSS for the font. Now you'd be wondering where to write that CSS. Check out the custom css plugin for Elgg and activate it. Then write the custom css to implement the Google font.

How to Change Powered By Elgg Footer Icon in Elgg Social Networking Engine

If you are looking to overwrite the default logo at the footer of Elgg social media script, you can do it in two different ways. 1. Edit the core files and use your custom path First way to remove powered by Elgg is to edit the core php file and put the path of a new logo on it's place. This will remove the old image location and put your new image instead of powered by elgg default logo url. 2. Overwrite the image file in the following directory: _graphics Second way of removing the powered by elgg logo is to overwrite the image itself. Check out the path where the default logo of elgg...

The Best and Quickest Tools to Check Website Speed

Pingdom and Google PageSpeed Insights Are One of The Best and Quickest Tools to Check Website Speed. If you are are developer and want to check website speed quickly, these two URLs are heavens. Check out the links below to see any website or website speed and improvement suggestions. http://tools.pingdom.com/ https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/

How To Get Fade Effect on Image Transition in BMo Expo Plugin

BMo Expo is a cool plugin to create gallery items. If you are looking to add a fade effect on BMo Expo slider plugin, you can make a little change to the code to achieve this feature. Plugin source: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bmo-expo/ Code suggested by: laCabriole, https://wordpress.org/support/profile/lacabriole Solution: In : wp-content/plugins/bmo-expo/js/jquery.bmoGallery.scrollGallery.js replace line 332 -339 with: this.$bmo_the_gallery_images.css("opacity","0.0"); this.$bmo_the_gallery_images.animate({left:(-(index * this.$bmo_the_gallery_image_area.width())) + 'px'}, "fast");...

How to Create a WordPress User Through An SQL Query From PhpMYAdmin Area With Admin Right

Are you looking to create a WordPress user using an SQL query from the PhpMyAdmin area? Here is the query that you need to execute with proper parameters. You need to update a few things like ID (Don't use an existing id), Username, password in raw text, email and user name as profile info. You also need to check for a few thing while creating a WordPress user from database (The table prefix). Once you have SET @id = 99; SET @user = 'username'; SET @pass = 'password'; SET @email = '[email protected]'; SET @name = 'marshall'; INSERT INTO wp_users (ID, user_login, user_pass, user_nicename,...

Default HTACCESS File for WordPress

Looking for the default .htaccess file for WordPress? Here it goes. Simply create a .htaccess file and upload it on your root directory. # BEGIN WordPress RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] # END WordPress