How to Move and Rename the Featured Image Metabox
Here’s a quick code snippet by Bill Erickson that lets you move and rename the featured image metabox for your custom post type.
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Here’s a quick code snippet by Bill Erickson that lets you move and rename the featured image metabox for your custom post type.
In an earlier post about image sizes in WordPress, we had shown you a way to choose which image sizes are available for choosing when you’re inserting an image in a post or page.
Today, we are posting a more complete solution where you can actually tell WordPress which image sizes it should or should not generated, and then choose which ones are available in the media uploader/image insertion screen.
An easy way to customise a WordPress website is to have a number of widget areas defined, and be able to drop widgets at will into those areas.
What gives even more flexibility however is the ability to select whether widgets show or not on a per page or per post basis. To get this functionality, we have to rely on plugins, so we’ll take a look at some of the best ones.

If you’re into the sales and property rental business, WordPress is one of the best solutions you can use for your website. This is thanks to a number of themes that really elevate WordPress into a fully-fledged property management system. Check out the following themes for real estate sites.

Slider plugins remain among the most requested plugins for WordPress. With all those different slider plugins available, it’s difficult to find one that rises over and above the others and truly provides a memorable experience, both for users and developers.
Soliloquy is one of the most well-known slider plugins for WordPress, and today we’ll be taking a closer look at it. Does it live up to its billing of “best Responsive WordPress slider plugin”?
When displaying your latest posts on the homepage, you might want to exclude some categories from displaying on this page.
There are many reasons why you would want to do this. You might want to keep your homepage for only news posts and relegate the rest of the posts to other sections accessed through the menu.

A lightbox is one of the best ways to present images and videos in WordPress, and there are understandably quite a number of plugins to choose from.
Lets take a look at some of the best lightbox plugins out there.

SEO is an important topic for every WordPress website owner, and there are countless tools and resources that you can use to improve your site’s rankings and exposure. Here are some of the best I’ve come across.
Sublime Text 2 has become my favourite editor for many reasons. In this post I list some of my favourite packages and resources for learning more about Sublime Text 2 usage.
Lots of WordPress developers tell us that off-the-shelf WordPress themes are becoming an increasingly popular choice in comparison to bespoke, from-scratch themes. But finding a good theme that will work for your project is still a difficult and often frustrating process. wp.io’s new WordPress Theme Explorer offers a unique way to take some of the pain away.

There are thousands of WordPress themes available to WordPress users, yet I couldn’t help wondering, have you ever needed a theme for a particular niche and found that surprisingly very few themes catered for your needs?
This week I came across a very intelligent plugin that I’d like to share with you.
Theia Smart Thumbnails for WordPress lets you customize the thumbnails for each of your images. Gone are the days when you had to manually crop or upload separate versions of your thumbnails.