If you have a look at the Gutenberg “Button” block and click on the styles tab (half moon cookie) you will see that you can select from Fill or Outline for it’s style. What if you wanted to add more options? Or you wanted to add style options to other blocks? In this guide, I […] The post How to Add Custom Block Styles in WordPress appeared first on WPExplorer ..read more

By default WordPress search works by searching post content and titles. If you have an advanced website where data is store in custom fields, you may want to also search those values. In this guide I will provide you with the code needed to update WordPress so it can search custom fields. All without the […] The post How to Include Custom Field Values in WordPress Search appeared first on WPExplorer ..read more

The Post Types Unlimited plugin, also known as “PTU”, allows you to easily add custom post types and taxonomies to your WordPress site. I created this plugin because other plugins, such as the popular Custom Post Type UI plugin, are bloated & full of upsells. It is a great add-on for any site that requires […] The post How to Add Custom Options to the PTU WordPress Plugin appeared first on WPExplorer ..read more

I recently wrote an article on how to integrate CloudFlare turnstile in WordPress comments and implemented the code here at WPExplorer. However, I think using Turnstile is overkill and loading extra scripts just slows down page loading. So, I decided to code my own custom captcha field and use the Comment Blocklist to see if […] The post How to Add a Custom Captcha Field to WordPress Comments appeared first on WPExplorer ..read more

By default the main RSS feed of your WordPress site only includes standard posts. WordPress does create extra feeds for custom post types, but what if you wanted those posts in your main feed? In this tutorial I’ll show you the code needed to include custom post types into the main RSS feed in WordPress. […] The post How to Add Custom Post Types to the WP RSS Feed appeared first on WPExplorer ..read more

So you’ve decided to create a block theme but not sure where to start? In this guide I will give you an overview of a block theme’s file structure. In other words, the block theme “anatomy”. What folders & files can be inside a block theme, which ones are required and what they all do. […] The post Block Theme Anatomy: Structure & Files appeared first on WPExplorer ..read more

In my last tutorial I showed you how to remove paginated page URLs in WordPress. In that guide I shared code to 301 redirect paginated URLs that aren’t needed. However, in some cases using a 301 redirect isn’t appropriate & returning a 404 status is best. In this tutorial I will show you how to […] The post How to Force Return a 404 Error Page in WordPress appeared first on WPExplorer ..read more

I was logged into my Google Search Console the other day and noticed that there were thousands of alerts regarding blocked pages all using the format /page/{number}. A spam site had linked to a bunch of non-existent paginated pages on our site and Google was wanting to index these. In this guide I will show […] The post How to Remove Paginated Page URLs in WordPress appeared first on WPExplorer ..read more

By default WordPress uses their own 3rd party website named “Gravatar” for user photos (avatars). However, there are many drawbacks to using a 3rd party service for user avatars. In this article, I will show you how to set a media library image as the user avatar in WordPress. For the purpose of this tutorial, […] The post How to Set a Media Image for User Avatar in WordPress appeared first on WPExplorer ..read more

Sometimes when you log into WordPress you will see a notice with the heading “Administration Email Verification”. This site admin verification screen was added back in WordPress 5.3 as an extra security measure to ensure that your website’s administrator email is accurate. This is what the screen looks like: According to WordPress; the email verification […] The post How to Disable the Administration Email Verification Screen in WordPress appeared first on WPExplorer ..read more