WordPress tutorials, help, and code snippets to help you design and customize your own WordPress site.
This is one code snippet to insert Google Adsense ads on all your WordPress posts, both regular and AMP. (This code works with the official AMP for WordPress plugin.) This one code snippet will automatically insert one Google Adsense ad after the first paragraph of every post. On regular posts, it will insert a “Native … Read more →
This shows you how to put Google Adsense AUTO ADS on your WordPress AMP posts. This code works with the official AMP for WordPress plugin. You can easily ad AUTO ADS to your AMP posts with one block of code. If instead you want to insert regular Adsense ads on AMP pages, see this instead. … Read more →
If you’re using Gutenberg (the new WordPress editor), you will use shortcodes a little differently than before. Instead of just pasting or typing the shortcode, the new Gutenberg WordPress editor requires 5 steps. (Yes, this seems very backwards.) First, click on the “plus” icon to add a block. A box will appear: … Read more →
This adds a dismissible admin notice to the WP admin with pure JavaScript. No jQuery or other dependencies. The admin notice will have a Dismiss icon just like the regular WP admin notices. When the icon is clicked, the message will go away. This admin notice will have a blue left border which is given … Read more →
Here is how a beginner can check if their WordPress website has the WP REST API disabled or enabled. First, make sure you are NOT logged in to your site. Then, go to the following web address to test it (be sure to change yourdomain.com to your own website): yourdomain.com/?rest_route=/ The WP REST API … Read more →
This is a way to discourage direct access to your custom WP REST API endpoint. It will disallow access from other sites to your endpoint, whether they are using AJAX or wp_remote_get, or similar. It will also disallow direct access from anyone navigating directly to the endpoint in a browser. Basically, it will only allow … Read more →
Here are three examples of how to count words in WordPress post content. You can use this to count the words in one post (or page, or any custom post type). Or, you can use this to display the word count on the current page (or post, or any custom post type). Or, you can … Read more →
You may have a function or some code that you only want to run one time on your WordPress site. You may notice that functions hooked on to admin_init can be fired twice. Here is quick way to run your code only once. This will guarantee that it runs one, and only one, time. Mandatory … Read more →
This is how to remove the generator meta tag for the WordPress AMP Plugin. This refers to the WP AMP plugin by Automattic. The new generator meta tag was added in the AMP plugin version 0.6.0. It looks like this in your sourcecode: To remove the meta tag, use the following PHP code snippet. (See … Read more →
This is a quick example of a WordPress loop that searches through all posts, of multiple post types including custom post types, to find if a certain shortcode is used within the content, and how many times that shortcode is used. This is for the random case in which a shortcode may be used multiple … Read more →