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Limit WordPress Search to Posts Only

You know that weird feeling you get when you use a search form on a site and one of the results is “home” or “about”? Well with this simple hack…

Remove Core, Theme & Plugin Updates

We all know how annoying it can be to see those updates on your WordPress dashboard. It can annoy you but it can also be seen by clients that will…

Add ACF Data to wp_search

Sometimes most of the data on your posts or pages is built entirely by ACF. However, when searching your site for words that are used in the ACF fields results…

Disable Posts in WordPress

In sounds kind of funny but sometimes you don’t want to use posts in WordPress. If you are not planning on using them, they should definitely be disabled. Here is…

Upload SVG to WordPress

Add the above function to your functions.php file and you will be able to add SVG files to the WordPress media. function add_svg_to_upload_mimes( $upload_mimes ) { $upload_mimes[‘svg’] = ‘image/svg+xml’; $upload_mimes[‘svgz’]…

Inject Facebook or Google Pixels into the Head Section in WordPress

Add the above to the functions file and switch the “PIXEL GOES HERE” with the pixels you need to inject to the head of your WordPress site. add_action(‘wp_head’, ‘inject_into_head’); function…

Remove the URL Field From the Comments in WordPress

function ScanWP_disable_comment_url($fields) { unset($fields[‘url’]); return $fields; } add_filter(‘comment_form_default_fields’,’ScanWP_disable_comment_url’); Add the above to your functions file and the URL field will cease to exist in the built-in WordPress comment forms which…

Modify the Read More in WordPress

function ScanWP_modify_read_more_link() { return ‘<a class=”read-more-link” href=”‘ . get_permalink() . ‘”>Read More</a>’; } add_filter( ‘the_content_more_link’, ‘ScanWP_modify_read_more_link’ ); Add to functions.php and change the “Read more” to whatever you want…

Change Excerpt Length in WordPress

function scanwp_change_excerpt_length($length) { return 30; } add_filter(‘excerpt_length’, ‘scanwp_change_excerpt_length’); Add to functions.php and change the number to the length you want.

Remove the Word “Category” From Category Title

Normally on Archive/Category/Tag pages when using the title function the_archive_title we get a result that looks something like this: “Category: Category name”. This doesn’t look very professional. Here’s how you get rid…