I was looking for a way to add Font Awesome icons before the titles of the widgets from my footer’s website. After checking some plugins, I still couldn’t achieve a proper way to add HTML code in the WordPress Widget Titles as the CMS strips these tags on updating the widget. Some solutions work, but I also needed to have the quotes (either single or double ones) not stripped.
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Selective WordPress Plugin Loading: For Faster Page Load
People often complain that WordPress is being slow and that’s true if you use lots of plugins, badly written code that doesn’t follow WordPress coding standards (it’s incredible how many people claim themselves to be WordPress developers without even following the basic coding standards in developing themes and plugins), no caching plugins to boost the speed of your website and no enqueue/dequeue of scripts and style based on the page loaded. The list can go on and on about website loading speed. It’s a topic I’m going to cover more often here at BitRepository.
Today, I’d like to share with you a way to make your pages load faster without doing any coding, which is great for both beginners and advanced developers as it’s often convenient to apply things in the Dashboard rather then updating the code.
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How to Hide Update Notifications for Active/Inactive Plugins in WordPress
It often happens to have WordPress inactive plugins in your list but you will not need them for a long time or not need them anymore and forget to delete them. If you know you do no need update notifications for some of the disabled plugins or for all, then you can use the following code to hide the updates.
This is also useful if you want to keep using an older version of a plugin until, some day, you will update it to the latest version. This way, the plugins page and the link in the Dashboard’s sidebar will show you the number of available updates based on your preferences.
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An MVC approach to WordPress Theme Development
As I was tired of seeing so many badly developed WordPress themes where the code was not sustainable, the understanding of it took a long time and moreover it was filled with procedural code that was not even organised properly, I was looking for a solution to separate the HTML code completely from the PHP one in a WordPress theme.
This has several advantages including:
– Your templates look cleaner and are easier to maintain by the front-end developers. No more messy PHP code within HTML tags!
– All the templates are organised in one location and updating them (even with a WYSIWYG editor) is much easier
– All the logic/parsing of the information, database fetching is done in the PHP code.
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LayerSlider Responsive WordPress Slider Plugin: 2 Licenses Giveaway
Besides the fact that it looks professional, having a professional slider on top of your page can help you boost your conversion rates by featuring concise content like images, videos on pages where space is limited. It uses eye-catching transition effects to capture the attention of the visitors.
Kreatura Media are giving away 2 licenses of LayerSlider Responsive WordPress Slider Plugin – a 5 stars plugin, one of the bests sold at Codecanyon.net – to BitRepository readers. Details about joining can be found at the bottom of this post.