So depending on your blog, audience and purpose you may want to have the ability to display content and/or ads specifically for your RSS feed only. This comes in super-handy, especially because your RSS subscribers are typically among your most loyal followers so you may want to show them content or ads that you think best applies to them specifically. Here are two ways (with code) to accomplish this with WordPress. 1. Insert Ads Across Entire RSS Feed Originally provided by WPrecipes.com, this snippet of PHP when placed in your functions.php file inside your theme gives you the ability to place a global ad across all posts in your RSS Feed. Just change out what’s in the $content variable to the HTML you want for your ad. 2. Feed Only Content On a Post-By-Post Basis This snippet of code from WPBeginner.com helps you use your functions.php file to create a [...]

Not sure if that title makes sense or not. Basically the idea is this: you want to display in your sidebar the most recent posts in your blog, but more specifically the most recent posts for a category. And even more specifically than you want it to be dynamic so that it’s always the same category of the current post someone is reading. note: I’m realizing as I’m writing this that this is one of the most difficult WordPress things I have ever tried to explain. Yikes! So to make this happen we need a little PHP. Here’s what I did. In my Sidebar.php file I used this code: As you can see the code is grabbing the category of the current post that is being viewed. It’s then setting up a simple wordpress loop to show the most recent posts with a title and link. You can change the [...]

Headway Themes – Perfect for the design impaired and website virgin. It’s a WordPress plugin that allows you to create fantastic customized themes without a designer or a programmer. Here’s how the Headway Theme works: Quick Start Wizard The visual editor allows you to change your theme directly on your site in real time. You don’t have to be a programmer or a designer to make your site look great on your first attempt. You start by putting your banner image into the Quick Start Wizard. Headway then pulls colors from your banner to incorporate through the rest of your site. Once you’ve decided the colors you want for the key areas of your site and your font format, you’re done with the Quick Start Wizard. It doesn’t get much easier than that. You could be done at this point if you wanted; all the elements you need for a [...]

The Rundown: Create, Publish and Export customized forms. Gravity Forms is pretty fantastic. It’s a form management plugin for WordPress that allows you to drop different elements to create a form to be housed on your website. Yep, it’s that simple. The best part is that you don’t need a designer or programmer to get your form up and rockin’. Gravity Forms is a premium WordPress Plugin that costs $39 for a single site license and $99 for a multi-site license. Create. The Gravity Forms editor is very intuitive and easy to use. Like I said before, you just click the elements you want and it’s added to your form. It’s also easy for you to change the text within the form, customize form fields, switch-up layout and order, etc. The whole process is super user-friendly and only takes a few minutes to actually create, preview, and publish your form. [...]

I’m not talking about your common SEO plugin for WordPress. I’ve already covered those in a previous post. I’m talking specifically about plugins that are popular in the WordPress community that unintentionally boost SEO. All 10 plugins that I mention here have 1 thing in common. They accomplish a primary objective, while benefiting SEO as a secondary objective. 1. WordPress Mobile Pack = A Mobile Version Of Your Site/Blog Official WordPress Page While more and more searchers are using mobile devices, Google is having to constantly improve not only search results pages for normal browsers but for Mobile browsers as well. What this means is that if you don’t have a mobile version of your site/blog, you could potentially be missing out on a large percentage of visitors through mobile browsers. Get a mobile version of your site and get higher ranked for organic mobile search results. 2. WP Super [...]

So what I’m about to explain to you was so freakin difficult for me to find… I felt it was my duty as a blogger to write a blog post on it so that others could find it more easily. It’s the ability to display multiple Page excerpts and their respective titles on a page in WordPress. Let me give you an example. Recently I was working on one of my websites DebtResources.org. I wanted the homepage to feature specific Pages (not posts) that I designated as the most important. I needed control over both how many Page excerpts were displayed and what specific Page excerpts were displayed. Here is the code I used to make this happen. I created a Page Template for my page I called “Home” and set it to be my “Front Page” in my WordPress settings. I used this code in my Page Template… All [...]