Tutorial

How to Display WordPress Login Form in the Sidebar

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The one page WordPress site administrator’s use the most is the login page. And most of us have tried to customize the look of that page in one way or another. However, despite providing a custom look, the login page does not always have to be a separate page.

On the contrary, you can easily put the login form in the sidebar. By doing that, you will be providing a simple log in solution for your visitors. The users will also feel encouraged to register into your site once they see the log in form.

Choosing the Plugin

While it is possible to add the log in form manually, we won’t go into that much hassle. Being a proud WordPress user, we have lots of third-party plugins for that purpose. For this tutorial, I will use Sidebar Login, an absolutely free plugin with more than seventy thousand active installs at this moment.

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How to Show Posts from Certain Categories in WordPress SideBar

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Category is an important feature of WordPress. By categorizing your posts, you can provide a properly organized site to your visitors. Unfortunately, WordPress does not provide lots of options when it comes to displaying category or related posts. In this regard, the only option you have is the Recent Posts widget. The simple and basic widget does not provide any customization or sorting options.

In today’s post, I will discuss about four plugins that will let you display posts from specific categories. These plugins will allow you to display recent and relevant posts in different ways.

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How to Insert Navigation Menu inside a Page or a Post

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In this Post I will share a technique which can be used to insert the Navigation Menu inside your content like Page or a Post. It is really simple and can be done without writing any code.

The Idea Behind

Well the concept is pretty simple. We will insert the navigation menu by embedding the Custom Menu widget inside our content. We will utilize the AMR Shortcode Widget plugin for this.

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5 Best Custom Code Plugins for WordPress

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WordPress is an excellent blogging platform, we know that already. However, when it comes to including custom codes, WordPress does not provide any native option. For that purpose, you will need custom code plugins. These plugins let you do everything including inserting codes into the posts, pages or the functions.php file, highlight code, add code to a specific location of your website etc.

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How to Display or Hide Widgets on Specific Pages and Posts

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In this post I will cover 2 plugins which can be used to conditionally display widgets on specific pages. There are a lot of use cases for conditionally displaying widgets. For example if you want to display the login widget on particular pages, then you can do so easily with these plugins

Using the Display Widget Plugin (link)

The Display Widget Plugin is immensely popular. It has been downloaded half a million times and has rating of 4.8.

Using the plugin is quite straight forward. Just Install and activate the plugin.

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How to Change Background Color of Text Widget – WordPress

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In this Post I will show how you can quickly change the background color of a WordPress Text Widget.  Here are the instructions

Change the Background Color of all Text Widget

Use the following CSS rule to customize the background color of all text widgets.

.sidebar .widget_text { background-color:yellow; }

This rule will ensure that all text widgets have yellow as their background color. You can use the Simple Custom CSS plugin to add this style rule to your wordpress site

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How to Add Custom JavaScript to a Specific Page in WordPress

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In this tutorial I will share a simple technique to add custom JavaScript to a specific Page in WordPress. The best part is that we don’t need to make any edits to the templates files or the functions.php file.

The Concept

The Concept behind this tutorial is quite simple. We will make use of Custom Fields to add custom js. Here is what we will be doing

  • We will first create a custom field to hold the JavaScript code
  • We will then simply output the value of custom field on the respective Page

Simple, isn’t it? Lets start!!

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