WordPress category archives are very inclusive. They list all the posts in a category, including all the child categories. This is also true for all other hierarchical taxonomies. If you have a deep hierarchy, it might make more sense to have your users drill down until they … [Read more...]
preserving HTML
Several of the description fields in WordPress will strip any HTML entered into them. You can preserve them with a little work, though. User Descriptions The biography field on the user profile page accepts a limited number of HTML tags — the same ones allowed in comments. If you … [Read more...]
using shortcodes everywhere
Read this in Spanish | Leer esta en Español Read this in Turkish | Türkçe bunu okuyun At the moment, shortcodes in WordPress are processed only in post/page content. You can use them in lots of other places, though, if you enable them for each field you want. Here's how to use … [Read more...]
Create private categories
Have you ever tried to create a category consisting entirely of private posts? It's a pain to have to remember to set the visibility for each post before publishing it. One of my users simply couldn't remember to do it, resulting in a lot of accidentally public posts on that … [Read more...]
Hidden feeds: categories, tags, authors, search terms, links
WordPress generates a number of other feeds in addition to those for posts and comments. There's a feed for each of your categories and tags. You can also get feeds of posts written by an individual author. You can even get feeds for search results! Since WordPress doesn't … [Read more...]
Using categories and tags as meta keywords
Your categories and keywords are valuable bits of metadata, but WordPress doesn't use them in its meta tags. Even the popular All in One SEO Pack plugin uses only categories, not tags. … [Read more...]
Removing the category base from permalinks
Search the web for ways of removing the category base from your WordPress permalinks, and you'll come up with a lot of wacky methods that don't really work. They can be quite complicated; this one requires changing two theme files and .htaccess and still produces 404 errors on … [Read more...]
