Deluxe Blog Tips

Auto Link Thumbnails To Posts In WordPress

Tran Ngoc Tuan Anh — Sat, 12 May 2012 16:28:37 +0000

Post thumbnails are usually displayed big in archive pages and people tend to click on them to navigate to posts rather than clicking on post titles. So make post thumbnails link to the posts can help your users have better experience, thus improve website friendliness. This simple code above will help you do that, put [...]

Remove Redundant Image Sizes And Files In WordPress

Tran Ngoc Tuan Anh — Thu, 03 May 2012 02:31:48 +0000

Each WordPress theme has a bundle of image sizes, and everytime we switch theme, we’ll use other image sizes. That will lead us to a problem of redundant image files left in WordPress folder! They occupy a large space of our host, and make us hard to do a backup because of unacceptable running time [...]

Plugin Review: SEO Smart Links Premium

Tran Ngoc Tuan Anh — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:42:57 +0000

This is the first time I write a plugin review. I really enjoy writing this post because I found that making a good review for a plugin is a great way to understand how it works, how it is coded and even how the author of the plugin thinks and implements his thoughts. Writing a [...]

Search ALL Custom Fields in WordPress

Tran Ngoc Tuan Anh — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 02:46:59 +0000

By default WordPress searches only in post title and post content, and it’s not enough when you have many additional data in custom fields (post meta) and you want that data is searchable as well. If you want to search only for ONE or TWO custom fields, you should use built in WordPress meta_query variable. [...]

Optimize file loading in WordPress

Tran Ngoc Tuan Anh — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:21:22 +0000

If your WordPress themes and plugins contain a lot of files, then loading all files where they’re not needed can waste your memory, thus reduce the website performance and increase the loading time. For example, you include theme setting files in functions.php, meaning those files will be loaded redundantly in the front-end too (they don’t [...]