Every WordPress user, or rather web manager, knows that plugins are great tools to extend the functionality of WordPress and customise sites to meet specific needs. For example, we use plugins to also change, or at least allow us to change, the appearance of some of our sites. Unfortunately though, these same tools also cause problems when upgrading to the latest Wordpress version. Recently, we found out that our problem of not being … [Read more...]
Tweeting from your WP blog
If you have a WordPress.com-hosted blog and you also have a Twitter account, how do you tweet from your WP blog? Easy, there is a plugin installed in your WP blog. All you need to do is activate the plugin in your WP blog and authorise the connection in your Twitter account. Each WP post that you write can easily be connected to your Twitter account. But how do you customize your tweets? That is where the problem lies. Well, at least from … [Read more...]
How to hide posts on the front page
Your site runs on WordPress and you want to hide posts which belong to certain categories or sub-categories from your front page, search or archives. That should be an easy task. These days, there are a number of WordPress plugins developed for that purpose and here are three of them: Front Page Excluded Categories - Excludes posts in one or more categories from appearing on the front page. You can assign these posts to an excluded … [Read more...]

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