In this article, we will show you how you can display the link description below your links in your template. This tutorial was requested through our twitter profile.. Update:Please note that the Link Manager was removed in WordPress 3.5. We recommend that you use WordPress menus because they are m

Do you want to display your most popular posts by day, week, month and all time in WordPress? Popular posts allow your visitors to quickly discover your main content, helping you increase user engagement and page views. In this article, we will show you how to display popular posts by day, week, mon

Do you want to display random posts in WordPress? Displaying random posts gives users the opportunity to discover more of your content. In this article, we will show you how to easily display random posts in WordPress. Why and where to display random posts in WordPress By default, WordPress lists

Do you want to display recent posts from a specific category in WordPress? The default recent posts widget shows posts from all categories, and there is no option to filter them by category. In this article, we will show you how to easily display recent posts from a specific category in WordPress.

Twitter is one of the most powerful and influential social media tools on the planet. At WPBeginner, we regularly use Twitter to monitor WordPress-related discussions, engage with our audience, and help other users. Recently, one of our users asked us what is the easiest way to display recent tweets

By default, WordPress allows users to edit theme and plugin codes through the admin panel. While it is a useful feature, it can also be very dangerous. A simple typo can end up banning you from your site unless of course you have FTP access. To prevent customers from messing up the site, its best to

Do you want to disable trackbacks and pings on your old WordPress posts? Trackbacks and pingbacks allow blogs to notify each other that they have linked to a post. However, today it is mainly used by spammers to send trackbacks from spam websites. In this article, we will show you how to disable tra

A common technique used by hackers to gain unauthorized access to websites is called Brute Force. Using this technique, hackers use software designed to scan a website for vulnerabilities and gain access by exploiting any of them. We use Sucuri for the security of our websites because they actively

This code snippet that we are sharing in this article is useful in very custom layouts. By default, you can use the wp_list_categories function to display categories, and it only displays categories if you have posts. Sometimes when you customize WordPress you may need to use it this way. When we we

At WPBeginner, we display the last modified date instead of the original published date for all of our articles. We think its a bad idea to remove the dates from your WordPress blog posts. If you are using the last modified date, you may want to display a list of your recently updated posts on your

Want to display ad units on specific WordPress posts? This ad placement allows you to show ads when your users are highly engaged with the content. In this article, we will show you how to easily display ad units on specific WordPress posts without writing any code or breaking your site. Why show

Based on our experience and research from many industry experts, it appears that search engine visitors are more likely to click on specific ads than their regular readers. In this article, we will share a technique that will allow you to earn more money from your blogs by simply showing ads to your

While working on a clients website, we realized that the built-in feature for list authors was not enough. We showed you how to display all the authors on your site, but that method was only good if you wanted a simple list to display in your sidebar. If you want to create a more content-rich and us

There are times when you want to display external RSS feeds on your blog. Maybe a blog feed from your other blog or some other site. Well, you dont need a plugin to do this because WordPress has a built-in function that will take care of this. In this article, we will show you how you can display an

We recently switched WordPress comments to the Disqus commenting system on WPBeginner. One of our users pointed out that the comments in our custom post types did not migrate correctly. For a temporary fix, we simply disable Disqus on certain custom post types. In this article, we will show you how

By default, WordPress allows certain HTML tags within comments, such as If you notice that many of the SPAM comments also contain these tags. Most SPAM comments are made by bots and scripts, which use HTML tags. If you simply disable the HTML of your WordPress comments, you can prevent a lot of SP

WordPress by default creates a single page for each attachment you have on your site. This includes images, audio/video files, PDF files, etc. This functionality is great for photographers, but not so great for the rest of us. We often get complaints from beginners who accidentally link their images

Recently, one of our users asked us how they can disable login suggestions in WordPress. By default, WordPress displays error messages when someone enters the wrong username or password on the login page. These error messages can be used as a hint to guess a username, user email address, or password

Recently, one of our users asked if there was a way to disable lost/changed password notifications in WordPress. By default, WordPress automatically sends an email notification to administrators when any other user resets their password using the lost password link. These emails can get annoying if

Recently, one of our readers asked us how to disable PDF thumbnail previews in WordPress. Introduced in WordPress 4.7, this feature creates thumbnail images for all PDF files you upload. In this article, we will show you how to easily disable PDF thumbnail previews in WordPress. Why disable PDF t