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Undefined Index – PHP Text Widget Error Solution

If you are using the PHP Text Widget in WordPress and get an error in your Admin section that reads:

Or something similar, there is an easy solution to this annoying problem. First, load up the file plugin.php from the plugins directory, usually wp-content/plugins/php-text-widget/plugin.php. You may want to download it using your FTP program so you can work on … Read More

Authors Loop with Links to Pages – WordPress Tutorial

Creating the loop for a page that displays all of your authors in your WordPress website is something that’s not as straight-forward as you would think it would be. Additionally, actually linking to the author’s page is fairly tricky. So today I am going to show you how to do it. You can take the final code and put it … Read More

Use Responsive CSS to Remove Admin Bar in WordPress

If you want to remove the Admin Bar in WordPress using only CSS, there is a very easy way to do it. You can even make it responsive, so that it will display or be hidden depending on the size of the screen. Additionally, you won’t need to edit any of the core WordPress files, you will only need to … Read More

Change Number of Results in Loop: WordPress

If you want to limit or even make UNlimited the number of results produced by the WordPress loop, without starting a new wp_query, I have a solution for you. This will work on an results or archive page, anywhere the loop is used, including results for authors, custom taxonomies, custom post types, or categories. In this example, we are going … Read More

How to Display Custom Field Value Only If it Has Value

When working with custom fields in WordPress, it’s necessary to know how to actually display those values on the page. And much of the time, you may have markup associated with that custom field that you only want displayed if the field actually has a value. We are going to learn how to do just that. In this example, we … Read More

Best Way to Manage Custom Fields – WordPress

There is an easy, amazing new way to add and manage custom fields for your WordPress site, and it doesn’t involve learning tons of PHP, or even any coding whatsoever! The answer lies in the plugin called Advanced Custom Fields. This has saved me so much time in working with custom fields, it’s truly amazing! Rarely do I describe plugins … Read More

Custom Post Type – Title and Editor Not Displaying – WordPress Tip

If you’ve been working on adding a custom post type into your WordPress theme, only to fall flat when, inexplicably, the title and editor in the post edit screen have disappeared, have no fear! Here is the common cause. If you don’t add ‘supports’ => array( ) into your custom post type registration, then at the very least WordPress assumes … Read More

Display Posts with 2 or More Tags – WordPress Tutorial

It’s amazing how difficult it is to Google how to do this exact thing, but it’s so simple. But there are already pages linked into your WordPress site that will display all your posts that are tagged with multiple things. You just need to know how to link to it! Here is an example: Example: Link to all of my … Read More

P3 Plugin “Cannot Read Profiles Directory” WordPress Fix

If you recently tried running Godaddy’s P3 WordPress plugin on your WordPress site or blog and received the error message “Cannot Read Profiles Directory,” there is a solution for you! The problem stems from two possible causes. There needs to BE a profiles directory and it needs to be writable by the program. To get this working, you first need … Read More