Tag Archives: WordPress Hacks

How to Add Site-Wide Background Music to a WordPress Website

By Arun Basil Lal | Published: April 20, 2012
There are many plugins for WordPress that will help you embed mp3 or other music files onto WordPress pages. There are even others that would let you show music playlists as widgets and that plays your favorite music to your site visitors. But when it comes to playing a Background music, site-wide with auto-resume across [...]
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How to Create a Welcome Page (Splash Page) for WordPress

By Arun Basil Lal | Published: April 11, 2012
We are not talking about a pop-up or setting a page as the homepage of your WordPress site here. A real solid page that is shown to visitors when they enter your site from another site, or search engine (which again is another site) or by directly typing in your address. Have you ever seen [...]
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Display Posts from a Custom Taxonomy (Tag / Category) of a Custom Post Type

By Arun Basil Lal | Published: April 8, 2012
Since ver. 2.3 you could create custom Taxonomies and custom Post Types came in since ver. 3.0. In simple terms, Taxonomies are classifications and Post Types are well, they are Post Types. For e.g. Pages and Posts are two default post types (there are 5 default post types) and Tags and Categories are default Taxonomies. [...]
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Fixing Missing Excerpts Box, Post Tags Box and Custom Field Box in WordPress

By Arun Basil Lal | Published: June 19, 2011
I checked my WordPress installation and found everything in place and that bothered me at first. Then I looked into one of their installations and found the solution really simple.
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How To Create Short URL’s on your WordPress Domain without a Plugin or Script

By Arun Basil Lal | Published: July 20, 2010
If you are on WordPress you wont need any of those. Inherently, every post can be queried from the database using its post ID. For instance, this link and this link point to the same post.
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