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One of my favorite thing about WordPress is that you can customize every bit of it, that’s the beauty of WordPress and its license, GPL. But sometimes customizations can lead to a slow loading blog and return some results that you surely didn’t wanted. One of them is xHTML invalid codes. How? Because some of the HTML4.0 tags are no longer valid in HTML5 also WordPress, by default, adds some tags that are not xHTML ...

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I am still working on that WordPress plugin that heavily modifies the comment template and adds lots of extra functionality a WordPress blog should have. On doing that, I wanted to have the link removed from comment author name even if the Website field is filled with the commentator’s URL. All the *fixes* I came across were by manually editing the comment-template file within the WordPress core files. That is, in fact, a very very ...

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I am working on a plugin to automatically modify the comments’ texts based on the inputs provided by the commentator. The basic requirements of the plugin is to show social links of the commentator and give them a conditional do-follow link depending on their contributions (total number of approved comments) to the blog. There are actually some free plugins available which you can use, but you have to combine at least 4 of them to ...

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I hope you already seen those extra fields in some of the WordPress powered blogs’ comment box (where you can enter your social profile and that shows up with your comment). Those are the custom fields in WordPress comment form, not a default WordPress functionality. There are already some plugins available to get that functionality, but if you prefer codes over the plugins (or, if you want to implement the feature in your own theme), ...

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Excerpts are generally the summery of a blog post (or page) which you can provide on the post editor page. If you don’t provide any, WordPress will automatically generate an custom excerpt based on the content of the post. The default length of the generated excerpt is first 55 words, but you can always manipulate it to suite your need. There are a bunch of ways to do this. Even WordPress codex provided a way ...

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A good blog design is important for the success of any blog. If your blog is poorly designed, visitors are likely to leave quickly before interacting with your content. However, a well-designed blog will build trust with your readers, and thus validate your content. Blog design is not just about the look and feel, but also about how content is organized and presented. The following are some of the most common blog design mistakes that ...

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