The WordPress SEO plugin by Joost de Valk, a.k.a Yoast, is undoubtedly a great plugin. But, one thing that bothers me about it is the amount of stuff it adds to the WordPress admin interface. For me that’s not really a problem. I can easily ignore, remove, or hide the features I don’t need, but … Continue reading→

The other day I was reading the discussions taking place in the comments on a relatively interesting blog post. I didn’t want to subscribe to comments via email because I hate littering my inbox with that stuff, so every now and then I’d flip over to that tab in my browser, refresh the page, and … Continue reading→

Some days after upgrading to bbPress 2.3, it was brought to my attention that certain users could not access the forums on my site. They were receiving a 404 Not Found message. I didn’t notice this because it wasn’t happening to me. It wasn’t even happening to anonymous users that aren’t logged in. In my … Continue reading→

Update: The new UI was pulled before the release of 3.6 and its development will continue in a plugin until it’s ready for core. WordPress 3.6 is currently in beta, and is set to come with a new post formats interface that’s right in our faces. But sometimes we don’t need post formats. Luckily we … Continue reading→

Sometimes it’s handy to hide pages in the WordPress admin from certain users. For example, when using WordPress as a CMS, where you define a static front page and a Posts page for all the posts, you might not want users trying to edit the Posts page since their edits won’t show up on the … Continue reading→

When an update is available for WordPress, it shows a notice at the top of the screen in the administrative backend. It does this for all users, including those who don’t have access to install the updates. If you want to hide the update message from users who cannot install updates, such as editors, authors … Continue reading→

For various reasons, we may need to exclude certain pages from WordPress search results. This isn’t the same as excluding all pages from the search results. We only want to exclude specific pages. Here’s one way to do that. Add this code to your child theme’s functions.php, or better yet make it a plugin. If … Continue reading→