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How to Add Categories and Tags to Pages in WordPress
Natively, you can categorise and tag your Wordpress posts with the readily available category and tag taxonomies. Learn how to add that same functionality to pages.
Limit the Character Length of the Content or Excerpt in WordPress
You might have some lengthy excerpts or content in some of your posts and pages, which are taking up too much space when listing them on your website. Learn how to limit the length of these when querying WordPress, so you can display a more ‘trimmed down’ list of posts/pages.
How to Validate a URL with PHP
A simple function using PHP and CURL that checks whether a URL is valid or not, by returning true or false.
How to Execute PHP Code after HTML Page Load
Got some code you’d like to run after your HTML page has loaded? Here’s how to execute some PHP after the rest of the page has loaded, using jQuery.
Update your Copyright Year Automatically with PHP
Fed up of changing the copyright year on your website every January (or whenever it is you notice it needs changing!)? Let PHP do the hard work for you.
Stop Search Engines from Indexing a Webpage
Have a webpage that you want Google Search to ignore? Here’s how…
Check if Category Archive Page has a Specific Parent in WordPress
If you’ve created sub categories in WordPress and want to display bespoke content if your category archive page has a specific parent, then here’s how!
How to Output a Shortcode in your WordPress Theme with PHP
Shortcodes are a great and easy way to output simple (or very sophisticated) content in your posts/pages via plugins or inbuilt WordPress shortcodes, but how would you output this directly in your theme files?