I can’t tell you how many times I have written an article, hit publish, then realized that I made some mistakes. It doesn’t matter how much I proofread a post, it happens all the time. With that, our readers get these articles delivered to them through my feed. Wouldn’t it be nice if I could delay the feed a bit, …
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Removing a Category From Your Feed in WordPress
If you run your site on WordPress and using it as a content management system, you may have realized that there are categories of posts that you don’t want published on your feed. There is no easy way to do this through WordPress by default, but that doesn’t mean that this isn’t possible to accomplish. You can eliminate certain categories …
Read More »Limiting the Length of an Excerpt in WordPress
In WordPress, there are two ways to display a summary of a post that I have found so far. Depending on your scenario you can use either php the_content(‘Read more…’); ?> or . I usually end up using both depending on the page that is being displayed and simply choose which with a “if, else” statement. In most scenarios it …
Read More »Filtering Comments in WordPress: Removing trackbacks and pingbacks from posts
As WordPress becomes more popular in the Web Designer circles (is that possible?), many of the functions we are looking for are simply not integrated by default. One of the functions I searched for for a long time was a way to filter comments so pingbacks and trackbacks wouldn’t be displayed on my posts or pages. I personally don’t care …
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