A common issue many beginner WordPress users run into is blocking certain content from users that aren't registered or logged in. Here is a short, simple solution in the form of a shortcode.

I spend a lot of time coding. a lot. So much so, that when I write posts and pages on my WordPress sites and go to save it, I hit Cmd+S.

Web browsers store a lot of information about how you navigate the internet, and one of those metrics is called a referrer. A referrer is the page that you were on before the page you are currently on. By checking this browser option we can eliminate quite a few of our spammy comments from bots that crawl the internet and post [...]

For some reason, a popular way to remove the /{category}/ base from the Wordpress url in the past has been to edit the URL before it is shown in the browser by perform a .htaccess hack. This can cause a lot of issues, not to mention, you would need to add a similar line for every category you would want to cloak. Luckily, Wordpress has added an apparently little known dashboard option to edit this.

Wordpress has been around for a few years now, and a lot can change in just a few years. Especially when the internet is involved. The User Profiles functionality was developed in it's early days, and the contact info fields were relevant ways to contact users..then. Yahoo IM, AIM, and Jabber..? No one uses those!