Using WordPress as a content management system brings you tons of flexibility. Unfortunately, most of the flexibility is unrealized unless you start diving into some code. For me, there are certain times when coding is the only way to get things done. Recently, I ran into a situation where a site I was working on wanted to hide something until the reader reached the last page of a post. By default, there is no way to do this in WordPress. Don't fret, accomplishing this is as easy.
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Display a QR Code for Your Post Pages
Have you been looking for an easy way to add a QR code to your WordPress pages? This little code snipped will allow you to add the QR code to your pages just like you see here on C.O.D.
Read More »Only Show Featured Image on the First Page of a Post
The nice thing about running sites on WordPress is that you will never run out of things to try. It seems like there is always something new that can be done to better the experience of the reader or further enhance the site. Featured Images are a great way to show off your post, but what if you don’t want …
Read More »Add a Facebook “Like” button to WordPress Easily
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:
Read More »Showing Popular Posts in WordPress Without Another Plugin
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 …
Read More »Add an About the Author to Your WordPress Theme
There is a lot of functionality that a plugin can add to your WordPress configuration, but for some reason I can’t feel comfortable relying simply on plugins for everything. When something simple comes along that can be done without a plugin, I would much rather go that route. With that said, I had been looking for an easy way to …
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