Handy tips and Tools for working with wordpress -Part1? – User friendly Tech help
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” Robert Louis Stevenson
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1.How to add icons in wordpress pages ?
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nBy using the “Better Font Awesome” plugin
nSteps1:- Install and activate the plugin in wordpress.
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Steps2:- Search the given icon from the font-awesome library, add the code in backend of the page where you want to use it.
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Tips:-
n1.Change the font-size by varying the font-size or directly adding a class like fa-3x, follow the example
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2.Another way of adding is using the short code and directly adding from the fronted of the code.
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2.How to customize local CSS in page or post?
nSolution:-
n Using the plugin “WP add custom CSS plugin“
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3.How to create mobile menu in website?
nSolution:-
n Using the plugin”WP mobile menu plugin”
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4.How to hide items from wordpress dashboard, thus avoid clients to mess up the code?
nSolution:-
nAppearnce > Editor > functions.php
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Place the below code in the functions.php file and save it
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function remove_menus(){
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remove_menu_page( ‘index.php’ ); //Dashboard remove_menu_page( ‘edit.php’ ); //Posts remove_menu_page( ‘upload.php’ ); //Media remove_menu_page( ‘edit.php?post_type=page’ ); //Pages remove_menu_page( ‘edit-comments.php’ ); //Comments remove_menu_page( ‘themes.php’ ); //Appearance remove_menu_page( ‘plugins.php’ ); //Plugins remove_menu_page( ‘users.php’ ); //Users remove_menu_page( ‘tools.php’ ); //Tools
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remove_menu_page( ‘options-general.php’ ); //Settings
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}
nadd_action( ‘admin_menu’, ‘remove_menus’ )
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You can change it based on which tabs to hide or show.
nAlso can remove the external plugins which are added to the dashboard .
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Complete reference can be taken from wordpress functions page.
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5.How to customize columns displayed in post/comments/page?
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Solution:-
nUse Admin Columns plugin.n
It provides an elegant solution for controlling the columns that show up on the All Posts, All Pages, Media Library, Users and Comments screens.
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6.How to change the default wordpress login layout and design?ts/page?
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Solution:-
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Use Erident Custom Login and Dashboard plugin. Using this you can change the background images, remove wordpress, reset password links and redesign the login page as you want.
