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WordPress is an Open Source CMS driven and extended by an incredibly large community. This has a lot of advantages: – Free or affordable access to a large variety of plugins, themes and tools to add “super powers” to your site. – Bugs are found and fixed fast. – Being as simple to use as … Read more Very Simple Tips to Protect your WordPress Site from Attacks
Wouldn’t it be cool to have your very own custom WordPress dashboard widget- a widget that will be displayed on your Dashboard page upon logging into WordPress? To get started, add the following contents to the functions.php file in your current theme directory: Under the above code in the functions.php file, go ahead and add … Read more How to Create WordPress Dashboard Widgets
Somewhere along the line, you may find it necessary to greet visitors in a different way, based on conditions i.e. Are they logged in or not?. So, let’s take a look at this in code. Greeting a logged in user: Conditional Greeting: Another use for wp_get_current_user(): I hope you found this resource useful! Interested in … Read more Greeting Users in WordPress
In WordPress, a sidebar allows us to assign certain widgets to a sidebar_id and later reference this with the get_sidebar() function. Thus, allowing us to render specific widgets on any template page. To get started open up your theme’s functions.php file into your favourite text editor and add the following contents to the bottom of … Read more How to Create WordPress Siderbars
