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After sitting through Jane Well’s presentation and talking with her after her speech, we have decided to share with the WPBeginner community what is coming in WordPress 3.0 in terms of features.

Highlighting search terms in WordPress search results is a simple way to improve the user experience on your website. Learn how in this beginner-friendly guide!

When we build WordPress sites for clients, we often add custom widgets to the dashboard. It’s a simple way to show helpful notes, links, or instructions right where the user logs in. The default dashboard doesn’t always show the information people actually need. That’s why… Read More »

In this tutorial we will share how you can add a simple function on your search page which will display the search term and the number of results.

Do you want to display a list of related posts on your WordPress website and prefer to use code rather than a plugin? At WPBeginner, we often stress the importance of engaging your audience and keeping them exploring your content. One effective strategy we’ve seen… Read More »

In our many years of working with WordPress, one strategy we’ve consistently seen deliver results is targeting ads to search engine visitors. It seems that search engine visitors are more likely than your regular readers to click on targeted advertisements. By showing ads only to… Read More »

Running multiple sites, we quickly learned the default WordPress RSS feed wasn’t enough for our needs. It felt limiting and didn’t give us the control we wanted over our content distribution. This is a common frustration, and many don’t realize an uncustomized feed can lead… Read More »

In this article we will show you how you can utilize the new feature added in WordPress 2.9 to add post thumbnails easier than before.

Excerpts give a brief preview of your content, allowing visitors to quickly understand what each post is about and encouraging them to click through for more. This is especially useful for blog listings, archives, and search results pages. By showing post excerpts, you can make… Read More »

Ever wanted to showcase an important article on your WordPress site, keeping it front and center for all visitors to see? Sticky posts are the solution to this problem. We’ve used sticky posts countless times in our blogging projects to highlight everything from major announcements… Read More »