Ankit, Author at The WP Hosting

How to create 301 Redirects in WordPress

May 30, 2021December 21, 2019 by Ankit

Understanding 301 redirects are an important part of the website SEO strategy. There will be times when URL’s are changed, the page is deleted, the website is migrated. In such cases implementing proper 301 redirects will help preserve the link juice.

Fortunately, WordPress makes it super easy to create 301 redirects. There are quite a few plugins that let you quickly create redirects without any knowledge of coding.

In this particular post, I will be sharing step by step instructions for creating 301 redirect in WordPress.

After going through this tutorial, you can easily redirect a particular URL to another URL.

How to Filter Blog Posts by Author in WordPress Admin panel

October 21, 2019 by Ankit

In this post I will share step by step instruction on how you can easily filter blog posts by authors in WordPress Post Panel.

The default list panel lets you filter posts by

Month
Category
Post Status

The Author filter is not included by default.

So to add the author filter, we will make use of a plugin Author Filters.

As the name suggests, this plugin lets you filter the blog posts by author.

Lets see how it works.

How to convert / change post type in wordpress

May 14, 2020October 21, 2019 by Ankit

WordPress uses various post types to store and display content on your website. The most common post types are Posts, Pages, Attachments and Menus.

Do you know that it is also possible to convert one post type to another?

Recently I came across a situation where I wanted to change a post to a page.

In this tutorial, I will share step by step instructions to switch on post type to other.

We will make use of the Post Type Switcher Plugin.

How to add Widget to Pages and Posts in WordPress

May 14, 2020October 14, 2019 by Ankit

Widgets are very powerful and are extremely easy to use. However their usage is limited to the widget ready areas.

What if you want to embed widget in a Page or Post?

In this post I will cover a plugin which allows you to embed any widget in a Page or Post.

The plugin is AMR Shortcode Widget. Its a very popular plugin with 4.9 rating and has over 100,000 downloads. Here are the instructions to use it:

A simple guide to customizing the wordpress login form – without using a plugin

September 5, 2018August 17, 2018 by Ankit

In this tutorial I will share various techniques which can be used to customize the wordpress login form. We will make the customization without using a plugin

Here are the things which we will cover

Customize the logo on the login form
Customize the logo url
Customize the logo title
Customize the login form field labels
Customize the login button text
Customize the background color of login form
Customize the background image of the login page
Hide the remember me checkbox

Lets start.

How to selectively display widgets on specific posts or pages

May 14, 2020August 4, 2018 by Ankit

WordPress by default display the widget every where. So if you want to display or hide the widgets based on rules then you will need to make use of plugins.

In this tutorial I will cover 4 plugins which can be used to hide or display widgets in posts or pages control the widget visibility of specific post and pages. At the end o this post I will also share a code snippet for controlling the widget visibility based on conditional logic.

How to remove the url field from the comment form

May 14, 2020July 23, 2018 by Ankit

If you have ever run a blog, you must have faced the problem of comment spam. Spammers engage in comment spam for link building purpose.

One simple way to discourage spammers is to remove the url field from the comment form. This will ensure that spammers cannot use your comment form for link building purpose.

In this post I will share a small snippet which will remove the url field from your comment form.

I recommend you to use the code snippet plugin in order to run this piece of code. Using the code snippet plugin ensures that your changes remain intact even after you change your theme.

Quick Tip – How to disable theme updates

May 14, 2020July 1, 2018 by Ankit

In this post I will share a simple technique which can be used to disable theme update. This will prevent both automatic and manual updates.

Running an outdated theme is not the best practice, but there might be some use cases where not updating the theme is required. For this tip to work, you don’t need to make any changes to the core wordpress files.

How to Insert Line Break in Widget Title

May 14, 2020June 1, 2018 by Ankit

WordPress, by default, does not allow HTML tags in widget title. If you try to add HTML tags in the widget title, they will be stripped before the widget content is output. So if you want to add Line Break in the widget title, you will need to perform some code jugglery.

In this post I will share a simple technique which you can use to insert line break in the widget title. The concept is simple.

We will create a filter which hooks into Widget_title filter and dynamically add the break tag.

How to add custom CSS in wordpress – without using any plugin

May 14, 2020April 18, 2018 by Ankit

There are quite a few custom css plugins , however majority of them apply the custom css site wide. If you want to apply the css to a specific page, then one approach is to make edits to the theme functions.php file. However this approach is not recommended , as the changes will be lost if you change the theme.

In this tutorial I will share a simple technique to add custom css to a specific Page or Post in WordPress. The best part is that we don’t need to make any edits to the templates files or the functions.php file. We will achieve this without using any custom css plugin.