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Simplifying ‘My Sites’ toolbar menu in WordPress multisite

The WordPress Toolbar saves me time daily with useful links as I jump around dozens of WordPress sites editing posts, pages and settings. But as a Super Admin on a multisite installation with hundreds of blogs and websites, I realized it also started costing me time soon after the network was created. Because my Super [...]

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Displaying custom post types with the same custom taxonomy value

Recently I was working on a WordPress theme where I wanted to be able to display a list of posts from a custom post type (specifically a milestones post type) that shared the same custom taxonomy value (in this case, a project ID) as the current post. Not being a programmer, I struggled for far [...]

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How to display updated publication date in WordPress themes

Using core WordPress functions and template tags, you can change any of your theme’s templates to display when a post was last updated or the “time ago” human reference date.

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How to make your own URL shortener in less than 10 minutes

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Who needs Bit.ly when you can make your own URL shortener using WordPress? This tutorial shows you how to get your vanity on using the Pretty Link plugin.

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How to display subpages of a WordPress page with their custom meta

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How to display the subpages of a WordPress page with their meta, such as title, publication date, featured thumbnail, custom fields, excerpts and, of course, permalinks to the subpages.

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How to style the WordPress TinyMCE WYSIWYG visual editor

WordPress styled TinyMCE visual editor

Your TinyMCE WordPress WYSIWYG visual editor can get very close to “what you see is what you get” if you style the visual editor following these instructions.

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What is the best WordPress permalink structure for SEO?

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If you really must know, using your post ID with custom slug keywords is likely the best SEO permalink structure for WordPress. Avoid using the often-recommended and used but potentially devastating category structure.