With GDPR in effect for quite some time now, almost all websites receiving visitors from the European Union must comply to that regulative. One aspect of the GDPR regulative enforces website owners to allow visitors to accept or reject cookies from their site. The common practice to display a Cookie consent notice when visitors visit […]
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Animated number counter plugins for WordPress
An animated number counter is a great, eye catching way to display any kind of numeric statistic on your web site. To impress your visitors with important numerical data you can use one of the many plugins available. To make your choice easier, we tested and reviewed the best free animated number counter plugins currently […]
Free WordPress recent posts widget – Which one is the best?
Almost every blog or magazine displays a list of recent posts in the sidebar, so should you. WordPress comes by default with a Recent Posts Widget, unfortunately with rather basic functionality. Fortunately, there’s a wide choice of third party recent posts widgets to replace the default one. We’ve done a Free WordPress recent posts widget […]
WordPress File Manager Plugins – Top 3 Free File Management Plugins Reviewed
Every once in a while, WordPress developers encounter the need to manage files in their web site file system. Back in the days we used FTP clients for that purpose, but nowadays each modern hosting cPanel has an integrated File manager. Now, there’s a way to skip the process of logging into the cPanel each […]
Top rated Free WordPress Lightbox plugins in 2022
Lightbox is a overlay frame that displays a larger version of a photo when the visitor clicks on it’s thumbnail. WordPress by default doesn’t come with stock lightbox functionality. Therefore, one of the first steps when developing a photography related web site it to add the lightbox function. To achieve that, there’s a wide variety […]
How to create a Custom Scrollbar in WordPress
You must have noticed some websites don’t have the standard boring browser default scrollbar. Instead they have a nicely designed, color matching scroll bar that enhances the overall look of the website. Here you’ll learn how to create a Custom Scrollbar in WordPress and make your web site stand out from the mass. Ways of […]
Estimated reading time WordPress plugins
Nowadays many blogs and web magazines are displaying reading time estimate for their articles. Reading time is usually displayed in the article header, between the title and the content. The advantage of displaying this information is in increased visitors engagement on the website and reduced bounce rate. Therefore, visitors will more likely read an article […]
How to disable comments in WordPress
By default, all posts and pages in WordPress allow users to post comments. While some websites will find this feature useful, in most cases comment forms only attract spam bots. Spam is the primary reason to disable comments in WordPress. To block comments, developers can customize Discussion settings, edit the template files or use a […]
Free WordPress Ajax Search Plugins – Which auto-complete plugin is best?
What are WordPress Ajax Search plugins? You almost certainly used search forms on some sites, and instead on a search results page, suggestions showed up instantly as you type. That’s a great solution that speeds up searching and significantly improves user experience. So, you’d like to implement auto-complete feature on your blog or any other […]
How to highlight code in Gutenberg editor?
Default WordPress editors were never really developer friendly with their plain text editor interface and no color highlighting. With Gutenberg, the default theme editor improved a lot with syntax highlighting and auto-complete funcion. Unfortunately, writing code in page or post editor is still a painful and slow process. Therefore, the first thing you want to […]