Font Awesome is the most popular way to add font icons to your website.
The AGP Font Awesome plugin makes it easy to insert icons into WordPress posts and pages. It also allows to add icons to menu items.
In this post, I'll tell you how to add icons to your menus.
One OSTraining member was investigating ways to monetize their site and asked us about WordAds, the WordPress-based advertising program from Automattic.
They were curious about how WordAds works and how it compares to Google's Adsense offering. It probably doesn't help that the name is confusingly similar to Google's AdWords program.
Here's our introduction to WordAds and whether it's worth testing on your site.
One of the strongest features in WordPress is media management.
The WordPress core makes it really easy to create advanced functionality with images and also multimedia.
In this video tutorial, Topher shows you how to create multimedia playlists using only the WordPress core. You can use it for both videos and audio files, although in this example we're going to use mp3 files to create a musical playlist.
In some situations, you may need to add custom Javascript to your site. Normally, this would involve modifying your theme files.
However, there is a less intrusive alternative. "Header and Footer Scripts" is a plugin to add custom JavaScript to WordPress without modifying your theme.
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how this useful plugin works.
In this video, we're going to take a look at WordPress template tags.
If you're a PHP developer, you'll recognize that template tags are simply functions. They are used to either do something or return something inside your WordPress template files.
WordPress template tags are often clearly and simply named. For example, here's the tag used to display the author of the current post or page:
By sharing positive comments from customers, testimonials are a nice way to promote your online business.
Testimonial Rotator is a plugin to manage and display testimonials in WordPress.
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to create and display testimonials in your site.
One of our Pro members was wondering if he'd lose search engine ranking after he switched his permalinks settings.
This tutorial will show you how to redirect the old permalinks to the new ones, so that you don't get 404 errors. You'll maintain your search engine rankings, as well as keep users happy.
Sometimes you discover a plugin and wonder how you ever survived without it.
For me, that's true for the "What Template Am I Using?" plugin. This is like Firebug, but specifically for your WordPress site. It's incredibly useful for theme developers. The plugin shows you the current template file you're using, plus any additional files being called such as header.php or footer.php. Oh, and it shows lots of additional information as well.
Giving back to WordPress is something that’s widely encouraged.
Matt Mullenweg famously suggested that companies making money from WordPress should give 5% of each employee’s time back.
One of our users asked for a way to include Vk.com sharing buttons in their WordPress site.
VK is a large European social network with more than a 100 million active users.
This is certainly possible to do by using the Jetpack plugin.
In this post, I'm going to show you how to add a VK sharing button to WordPress.
Sometimes you forget your WordPress admin password. Don't worry - it happens to all of us.
This tutorial will show you two easy ways to reset your WordPress password so that you can get back to work.
WordPress is an open source and community supported project. Thousands of volunteers help keep it running smoothly. You too can volunteer and help.
You can contribute to WordPress' development without any coding knowledge. You can help by testing beta versions of the WordPress core and also WordPress plugins.
In this post, I'll share with you how the Hierarchy plugin can improve the organization of your WordPress dashboard.
With it, you can merge the WordPress Custom Post Types admin menus into a single list to reflect the same structure as your public content.
WordPress allows us to upload a featured image to posts.
By default, these featured images must be hosted on your site's server. However, what happens if you want to use an image located outside your site? Luckily, there is a plugin for that purpose.
In this short tutorial, I'm going to show you how to choose a remotely-hosted featured image with the Nelio External Featured Image plugin.
One of our OSTraining members was wondering how to set up a WordPress menu item so that only subscribers could view it.
He wasn't sure if it could be done with the WordPress core or if it required a plugin.
This tutorial shows you how to control the visibility of menu items based on logged-in status or access group. Let's get started...
One of our users asked for a way to insert an icon in WordPress. AGP Font Awesome Collection plugin makes this process easy by integrating Font Awesome icons without the need of HTML.
In this short tutorial, I'm going to show you how to add icons to posts and pages, with just a few clicks.
WordPress 4.4 shipped this week with a really interesting approach to responsive images.
Joe McGill, who led the project, has an overview of the changes:
WordPress automatically creates several sizes of each image uploaded to the media library. By including the available sizes of an image into a srcset attribute, browsers can now choose to download the most appropriate size and ignore the others—potentially saving bandwidth and speeding up page load times in the process.
That was the goal. Here's an example of the actual code for an image in WordPress 4.4:
Here at OSTraining, we're enthusiastic users of ManageWP. We have an in-depth video class on using ManageWP and use the service to maintain our own WordPress sites.
We're delighted to have hosted a webinar with Nemanja Aleksic from ManageWP.
We recorded and edited the webinar, and have published it below.
This video has something for everyone, from ordinary WordPress users to experienced developers. Nemanaja talked about ManageWP tools and also about the challenges of a project that involves overhauling such a popular system. If you're really interested in project management in the open source area, check out UpStream, a WordPress project management plugin.
Currently ManageWP is in the process of launching Orion, a completely redesigned and rebuilt version of their platform.
One of our users asked for a quick way to disable comments globally in WordPress. By using the Disable Comments plugin, it's easy to solve this request.
In this short tutorial, I'm going to show you how to disable comments with a few clicks.
BuddyPress is the social networking plugin for WordPress.
You can create public, private or hidden (invite-only) groups.
A BuddyPress group is very similar to a Facebook group and allows your members to organize themselves based on their interests.
By default, WordPress includes the words category and tag as the basis for the URLs of important pages. For example:
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to replace the words "category" and "tag" in your URLs.
Google has an improved, user-friendly Captcha system.
Contact Form 7 is the most popular contact form plugin for WordPress.
By combining the two, you can easily create WordPress contact forms with antispam protection.
In this tutorial, I'm going show you how to integrate reCaptcha to Contact Form 7 in your WordPress site.
WordCamp US is coming up soon in Philadelphia and it's going to be a special event.
WordCamp US is the first time that the WordPress community has really tried to hold a large conference along the lines of DrupalCon and PyCon. They're expecting 2,000 attendees in Philly.
It certainly helps to increase attendance when tickets are an absurdly low $40 for 2 days. Conferences like this normally cost from $300 to $2000. There are still tickets on sale today. If you can't make it in person, you can buy a livestream ticket for only $10.
Here at OSTraining, we're enthusiastic users of ManageWP. We have an in-depth video class on using ManageWP and use the service to maintain our own WordPress sites.
We're delighted to be hosting a webinar on December 10th, with Nemanja Aleksic from ManageWP.
This webinar will have something for everyone from ordinary WordPress users to experienced developers. Nemanaja is going to talk about ManageWP and also about the challenges of overhauling such as popular system. They're in the process of launching Orion, a completely redesigned and rebuilt version of their platform.
WordPress makes super easy to embed a tweet in your website thanks to the oEmbed protocol.
In this post, we'll show you how to embed a tweet in a post. You don't need to use any plugins to make this work.
The OSTraining Breeze theme for WordPress is our training theme. We use it for many of our sample classes. We also wrote on the GoDaddy blog about our experiences getting Breeze published on WordPress.org.
Breeze is super easy to use and it allows you to customize key features such as the logo, colors and widgets.
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to recreate the homepage from our original demo.
We're pleased to announce that on December 5th and 6th, we'll make ALL our amazing WordPress classes viewable for FREE for those two days.
This is the weekend of WordCamp US in Philadelphia, so even if you can't attend the largest WordPress event ever, you'll still be able to improve your WordPress skills.
Sometimes you might want to add a clarification to a text. But, as soon as you add it, you realize it's too much text. Footnotes to the rescue!
In this tutorial, we'll show you an easy way to create footnotes in WordPress.
One of our users needed to display content in two columns in a page while using our Breeze WordPress theme. Since the theme is based on Bootstrap 2, it already includes support for columns.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to add columns to posts and pages with a few examples.
Microdata makes it possible for search engines to understand important details about your site's content.
Microdata provides Google and Bing with extra information about your content such as names, descriptions, dates and ratings. And, because search engines can understand your data more clearly, they often reward you with a higher ranking.
Some themes provide microdata support, but many do not. In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to add microdata to your WordPress theme.
