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Have you ever wondered why that smiley face shows up on your WordPress site? The short answer is that WordPress Stats creates this smiley face and uses it for tracking. In other words, this smiley face is responsible for giving WordPress Stats the information about visitors to your site. Sorry, you can’t get rid of it completely, but you can …

A friend of mine recently went through some issues with WordPress and the WYSIWYG editor.  His theme’s content width is 620px, but the editor is as wide as his screen.  With that said, when he would create a post and insert pictures he would have to preview the post over and over to make sure things were falling into the …

Your friends spend most of their time on Facebook, so why not take advantage of that on your WordPress site?  Adding a Facebook “Like” button to your WordPress theme is very easy to do.  In this example, we will show you how to add a “Like” button to your posts by editing one file:

People have different needs for different things, and if your need is to display a simple RSS feed in your theme; there is an easy way to do it… without plugins.  There are a lot of plugins out there for displaying an RSS feed, but many of them actually over complicate things.  Believe it or not, you already have the …

For years now, I have been using TinyMCE for WordPress to enhance the editor with some new buttons.  However, I only found myself typically using the “Next Page” button and never really touched any of the others.  I also noticed that some of the new functionality in WordPress 3.1 wasn’t present when using the plugin.  In the interest of keeping …

If you have opened up your WordPress site up to user registrations, there are inevitably some things that you just don’t want them to see. Unfortunately, by default, there is no way to accomplish this directly from the options within WordPress. Until this day comes, you can remove dashboard items by adding some simple code to your functions.php file.

If you take into consideration that WordPress is the most widely used blogging platform, it is confusing why they are still living in the past.  I am referring to the usage of AIM, Jabber, and Yahoo in the user’s profile.  Currently, within WordPress, there is no way for you to modify these choices.  However, with a few simple lines of …

There are a lot of plugins running around that will let you embed videos and media into a post easily.  The funny part about this is that WordPress has had the functionality to handle this all by itself since version 2.9.  The functionality is powered by oEmbed and getting started is easy as pie.

There are various ways you can secure your WordPress installation, some of them are true security measures and some of them are just concealers.  One thing I have been looking to do with my WordPress installations was to change the URL for user login and registration.  I feel as though having wp-login.php in the url is not necessary, this should …

For many of us, engaging our readers is what we ultimately want to do, and how readers interact with our site is what we want to know.  If you are a user of WordPress and you actively use the WordPress.com Stats plugin, you already have all the tools you need to display your most popular posts (by page views) for …