Tricks Customising your WordPress
Here are some tricks that may be helpful for customizing your WordPress, below are the list of what I’ve done to my site and the plugins I use. The codes and plugin can be used in most templates, but please do backup your before making any changes.
1. Hide you blog tittle
If you have custom image for your header, you might want to hide your blog title not to show up so that it does not overlap with the image header.
Open your CSS style and inserting this line to the end of it:
#header h1 { display:none }
Your blog’s title won’t be visible, but search engines will be still able to find it.
2. Show only summary/ excerpt instead of full article in the home page
Find this code: the_content
Replace them all with: the_excerpt
The code might be found in index.php, archives.php, archive.php, category.php, search.php. Change them all.
3. Automatically generate thumbnail in summary/ excerpt
Use this plugin: Thumbnail For Excerpts. You can get it here.
Thumbnail For Excerpts search the post for the first image. If exists, than it will search for the thumbnail created by default by WordPress for the image.
4. Automatically insert Adsense to inside blog post
Use this plugin: Adsense Injection. You can get it here.
Adsense Injection is a plugin for WordPress that allows you to randomly inject AdSense Ads into different places on your Blog each time your page is refreshed in an attempt to reduce Ad blindness.
The plugin takes a random paragraph break in your post and inserts the Adsense code. You can choose the total ads to insert and pick the formats and colors you want it to randomly select from.
5. Automatically insert Chitika in your blog post
Similar to Adsense Injection plugin, but this one is for Chitika Ads. Get it here.
6. Show related post link in your blog post
Use this plugin: WordPress related posts. Get it here.
WordPress Related Posts Plugin will generate a related posts via WordPress tags, and add the related posts to feed.
7. Hide certain Category from navigation
Open header.php and find the following: <?php wp_list_categories(‘title_li=’); ?>
Change that the with: <?php wp_list_categories(‘title_li=&exclude=1,2,3′); ?>
NOTE: the number ’1′ ’2′ ’3′ above is for your Category ID. For example category “money” is #24, and you want to exclude that category from displaying.
So you change the code to: <?php wp_list_categories(‘title_li=&exclude=24′); ?>
To get the category ID: Your WordPress Dashboard > Manage > Categories > Right click the category link and get it from the link properties.
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