If you want to keep any post always on top and on home page, you need to stick that post. In WordPress, you can make any post as sticky post. In the “publish options” click “Edit” link of visibility option. The visibility options will expand. Now check the box “Stick this post to the front [...]

There are few very good WordPress plugins which add a twitter like icon and link to tweet the post. But instead of using plugin, I will show you how easily you can add a link to “Tweet this post” in your WordPress blog. You can use below code to add a link to tweet a [...]

You will need to add 301 redirection if your change url of your WordPress site. 301 redirection will redirect all the posts from old url to new url. 301 redirection also tells search engine about change of address. Let’s say the old url was olddomain.com and new url is newdomain.com Now you want to add [...]

In this post I will tell you how to change / Transfer / Move your WordPress site from old domain to new domain. Suppose your WordPress site is hosted on old.com and you want to transfer the site to new.com Its very easy. Follow the below steps: Install WordPress on new.com Install and activate all [...]

Before I start the post, I want to mention that this tutorial is only for WordPress self hosted blogs. If your WordPress blog is hosted on wordpress.com then you may skip this tutorial. Tip one: Check WordPress Version You might not have installed the latest version of WordPress. Most people install WordPress using fantastico, and [...]

Permalink settings is a great feature of WordPress which let you have custom url for your posts, pages etc. If you ask me the best permalink structure, I will recommend: /%category%/%postname%/ This will produce post url as: domain.com/category-name/post-title if you want something shorter, you can use: /%postname%/ This will produce post url as: domain.com/post-title

Fantastico makes WordPress installation very easy and installation is completed within 1-2 minutes only. It just need 2-3 clicks. But fantastico don’t always have the latest version ready for installation. In those cases, we need to do manual installation. Manual installation is also very easy but can take time if your internet upload speed is [...]

After upgrading to WordPress version 2.9, few of my blog’s permalink settings or url re-write stopped working. I was getting 404 not found error message. I don’t know what was causing problem, but solution is simple. Login in WordPress admin panel, Navigate to: Settings -> Permalink. And click on “save changes” button. Basically you need [...]

You may have seen on many WordPress blog list of “Recent post” and “Related posts” at bottom of every post. I don’t know if there is any such plugin for this. To add 5 latests post at bottom of every post , open single.php from the theme folder. Find following codes: <?php comments_template(); ?> <?php [...]