bbPress doesn’t offer an option to disable the breadcrumb navigation, but we can easily do it with a single line of code. Add this to your functions.php or to a simple plugin to turn off bbPress breadcrumbs.

Contact Form 7 is a great contact form plugin for WordPress, but it loads its Javascript and CSS on every page on your site, even when you don’t have a contact form there. Let’s fix that by loading the scripts and styles only on the pages that need them. Add the following code to your … Continue reading→

If you’ve used WordPress for any period of time, you know it has the annoying habit of adding extra paragraph tags when you don’t want or need them. This can cause problems with the way your content is displayed. Luckily, this is easy to fix. Add the following code to your theme to prevent WordPress … Continue reading→

The admin dashboard widgets in WordPress are handy and informational, but sometimes you don’t need or want them on a particular deployment. WordPress allows you to hide them by clicking the Screen Options button at the top right and deselecting the ones you don’t need. This is nice and easy, but it only hides them. … Continue reading→

Sometimes it’s nice to display a PDF embedded on a page without forcing the visitor to download it. Using the Google Docs PDF viewer, we can easily do that with a shortcode and this snippet of code. To display the PDF, insert the shortcode in your page or post using the following syntax: If you … Continue reading→

On many systems using the default WordPress configuration, emails originating from a WordPress site will likely have some undesirable traits. These are: From: WordPress wordpress@domain.com Return-Path: apache@mail.domain.com It’s likely you’ve seen this before. It’s pretty much the default. The problem is, it’s useless most of the time. Let’s fix that. Change the values in the … Continue reading→