WordPress Code Snippets

Open Graph Tags

Posted on May 22, 2021 (May 24, 2021) by tonyt

Add Open Graph tags to your Wordpress posts and pages automatically without a plugin. […]

Force Category Selection Plugin

Posted on April 20, 2019 (April 25, 2019) by tonyt

Sometimes, our enthusiasm gets the best of us and we forget to select a Category when publishing a post, and when viewing the archive page or widgets the post is not displayed or listed. Then we may wonder what happened to the post and soon realize the post was automatically placed into the default WordPress […]

Automatic Meta Description Tags Using Excerpts

Posted on April 13, 2019 (July 1, 2019) by tonyt

The default installation of WordPress does not contain the description and keywords meta tag data. Meta tags can be added manually, through changes to the Theme template files, WordPress Plugins or by adding code to your theme’s functions.php file. What Are Meta Tags? The word meta means “information about”. Meta Tags were created early on […]

Recent Posts Shortcode without a Plugin

Posted on April 10, 2019 (April 14, 2019) by tonyt

WordPress has a stock Recent Posts widget which can be used in any widget area such as sidebars and footers. It displays a list of the titles of recent posts. But what if you want to display recent posts in the main content area of a post or a page? What about the Featured Image […]

Social Media Share Icons without a Plugin

Posted on April 9, 2019 (April 19, 2019) by tonyt

There are many free WordPress plugins for adding social media sharing buttons to your posts and pages and most of them work very well. Some of them rely upon 3rd party sites which gather statistics about the pages the plugin is on or they track your viewers for their own marketing purposes. Or the plugin […]