Themes

We all know how important it is to organize content on a website. At WPBeginner, we understand that using categories and subcategories helps visitors explore your site and improves how it ranks in search results. A good category structure also helps visitors to find what they need. Most WordPress themes …

In our experience, if you add a lot of categories to your WordPress posts, things can start to look a little crowded. Multiple categories, especially parent and child categories, can clutter up your layouts and make it harder for readers to find what they’re looking for. Wouldn’t it be cleaner …

Recently, a user asked us for tips to optimize their WordPress website’s performance. One of our suggestions was to replace the default WordPress jQuery script with jQuery from Google Hosted Libraries. WordPress includes jQuery with the core software by default. However, we’ve found that replacing it with the latest jQuery …

One of the most popular topics in the WordPress community is how to add shortcodes not just in posts and pages, but directly in theme files. Since we’re all about helping beginners master WordPress, we’ll show you the easiest ways to do this. Most users only add shortcodes in their …

You know that moment when you need to show certain WordPress posts based on custom fields? We’ve been there. When we first started with WordPress, seeing any code snippet felt intimidating, especially when all we wanted was to display posts with specific information. But here’s the good news: after helping …

Recently we were asked how to display a limited number of tags after each post in your WordPress theme. Normally, you use a function the_tags() to display a link to the tags a post belongs to. However that function does not have a parameter to limit the number of tags …

By default, WordPress shows previous and next post links at the bottom of each post to help with navigation. Adding thumbnails to these links can make a big difference to your WordPress blog’s user experience. This simple change can catch your reader’s eye and keep them on your site longer. …

Showing comments on the homepage of your WordPress theme is actually easier than you think. If you want to boost your comment section, then displaying comments on the homepage is the way to go. It can inspire new visitors to join in on the action and even showcase your credibility …

Individual images and other uploaded files on your website are displayed on a single attachments page. However, many themes don’t provide a template for attachments. Creating a custom attachments template in WordPress allows you to control how individual attachment pages are displayed, giving you the flexibility to improve both functionality …

If you are using multiple WordPress queries to display different sets of posts, then you may come across duplicate content. This is because some posts might match more than one loop and appear twice. WordPress doesn’t come with a built-in option to avoid duplicate posts in multiple loops. However, in …