Recently, while monitoring our blog stats, a new source of traffic was showing up enough for us to notice. This traffic source was Pinterest. We started using the platform and saw great potential in it, therefore we have added it to List25. In this article, well show you how to add the Pinterest Pin

Want to create custom meta boxes for your WordPress posts, pages, and custom post types? Custom meta boxes are commonly used to provide a better user interface for adding custom fields (metadata) to your content. In this article, we will explain what a custom meta box is, and how you can easily add

By default, WordPress taxonomies (categories, tags, etc.) have name, slash, parent, and description fields. Recently, while working on a client project, we found the need to add custom metafields to custom taxonomies. We needed a way to add custom text on each taxonomy archive page. One way would be

Want to add custom post status for your blog posts in WordPress? Publishing Status is an editorial tool that allows you to organize your articles based on their respective stages during the editorial workflow. In this article, we will show you how to easily add custom post status to blog posts in Wo

Custom Post Types were one of the most hyped features of WordPress 3.0. This feature alone expanded the horizon of using WordPress as a Content Management System (CMS). If youre using custom post types, or thinking about custom post types, then you may need to add them to your main RSS feed. This op

By default, WordPress displays a toolbar at the top of all pages for registered users. You can take control of the WordPress admin bar, disable it when viewing the site, or even disable it for all users except admins. However, this toolbar can be used in many ways, especially if you run a busy websi

Have you ever found yourself entering the same text in all your posts? People often do that, like ask people to subscribe to their feed, retweet the post, share it on Facebook, etc. You can always use a simple tag to add right after the content, or you can add that text as the default content in you

Have you noticed that Facebook now shows author information on links shared on Facebook? Recently, one of our users saw our Facebook status and asked us how they can add the Facebook author tag on her site. Considering Facebooks huge user base, this is crucial to any sites social media strategy. In

Previously, we showed you how to add the Facebook Like button in WordPress. The Like button allowed its users to share their blog posts with their friends on Facebook. Recently, Facebook has announced a new addition to this similar button known as the Submit button. The send button allows users to s

There are some wonderful live chat options available for WordPress. However, most of them are paid and the free ones are not that good. Live chat can be used to respond to customer inquiries, interact with visitors, provide support for products and services. In this article, we will show you how to

While working on a project where we created a very cool gallery with WordPress attachments and a custom post type, we found the need to add additional fields to the WordPress media uploader. These additional fields allowed us to credit each photographer by adding the photographers name and URL to ea

For added security, WordPress allows you to upload only the most commonly used file types. You can upload commonly used image, audio/video and document formats using the default media uploader. But what if you wanted to upload a file type that is not allowed? In this article, we will show you how to

Want to add an iframe border around your embedded video? A user recently asked us for a way to add a border around their videos in WordPress. Since you can use both iframe and oEmbed to add videos in WordPress, well show you how to add an iframe border around an embedded video, as well as how to add

As feedback on WPBeginner grew, we tried different solutions such as Livefyre to improve discussions on our site. Many WordPress users want to make comments on their website more social. This is why people try Facebook comments, Disqus comments, and now even Google+ comments. We recently found a plu

A while back we shared how you can control your WordPress RSS footer with the use of a famous plugin called RSS Footer by Joost. While the plugin is great, but it is very limited. You can only add text to the footer, and it is always the same text that is displayed in the footer of each post. What i

Do you want to add blocked content on your WordPress site? Many websites use content blocking to increase their lead generation, increase sales, or build their email list. In this article, we will show you how to add content blocking in WordPress without disturbing users. What is content blocking

Recently, when our founder, Syed Balkhi, shared his 14-point pre-post blog post checklist, many of you asked how he added the bonus download offer. Thats called a content upgrade, and it helps you get significantly more email subscribers. In this article, well show you how to add content updates in

Do you want to add admin notices in WordPress? Admin Notices are used by WordPress core, themes, and plugins to display warnings, notices, and important information on the screen for users. In this article, we will show you how you can add admin notices in WordPress. Why and when to use admin not

When creating our WPBeginner Gallery site, we needed to automatically generate custom short URLs for each site submitted to the gallery, and then store them as a custom field as soon as the post was published. Now, while we leave the automatically generated Bit.ly shortlinks for each post to our nex

Not all blogs need a Facebook fan page. If you have a personal blog, then you can easily use your Facebook profile and subscription feature to allow users to follow you on Facebook. Similar to the Like box, Facebook offers a follow button for users to use on their websites. Recently, one of the user