How to add SSL to wordpress website?

• Purchasing and installing SSL certificate.  

Ordering SSL in your website Cpanel

• This allows you to use https:// URL, but if you wish your custom website to use https:// URL so you can see that secure mark then you need to do a little more.
• For Wordpress websites, you should now configure your WordPress to operate with https:// To complete this you need to update the two site URLs in Settings > General menu of your WordPress admin panel to be with https://.
• Finally you may need a plugin for the website to operate with SSL like "Really Simple SSL"

Show all posts on a specific tag on a page in menu

If you want to put one specific tag on a page & add it on the menu, it's pretty simple. In WordPress you can display posts with same tag on tag archive page. 

Login into WordPress admin panel, navigate to Appearance -> Menus. Find your primary menu that is in use, and select it. Now, click on Screen Options button in the upper right corner (all the way up to the right), & check option Tags so they are also shown on your menu List (left side of the page). 

This way you will get additional menu panel Tags. Browse to the desired tag & add it to your menu. You are good to go :-)

Turn off comments for Posts & Pages in Wordpress

Posts:
Settings >> Discussion >> remove the check from "Allow people to post comments on new articles"
Now what you have done only applies to new posts that you would publish from now on. To remove comments feature from previously published posts:
Posts - select them all and "Edit" under bulk actions and press apply - choose "do not allow" next to comments and hit update posts.
Pages:
Pages >> select them all and "Edit" under bulk actions and hit apply >> choose "do not allow" next to comments and hit update posts.

Error importing SQL database in Wordpress

If you get; CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS ; error, when you try to import your SQL backup into your newly installed Wordpress, then you just need to export your database again(at your old PhpMyAdmin section) and while doing it, dont forget to tick DROP all WordPress tables, when you export your SQL database.

Restoring SQL database in your new wordpress

1. You make a back up file of your SQL database from your Cpanel -> PhpMyAdmin -> Export*** You need to DROP all WordPress tables in your database to make room for the restore(This is a check box when you are exporting your DB).
   
2. You upload the file in your new hosting plan/new website on your Cpanel -> PhpMyAdmin -> Import
3. Blank page ??? Check your themes. Faulty theme can cause blank page. Try changing to another theme.

"Fatal error: Call to undefined function" after automatic upgrade in Wordpress

"Fatal error: Call to undefined function" is always a sign of an incomplete upgrade, where not all the files got upgraded.

Do a manual upgrade.

Link(permalink) pages in wordpress to an external link

You want to redirect pages in your wordpress to an external link ? Now there is a plugin which let you do it :-) The good thing about this ability is that you can re-direct the menu items in your website to external links which was something that Wordpress always lacked.

The plugin name is "Page Liks To". You can download it from here, or simply search the name from your Wordpress control panel. The instruction is as follows :

1. Upload the page-links-to folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the “Page Links To” plugin in your WordPress administration interface
3. Create (or edit) a page or a post to have a title of your choosing (leave the content blank)
4. Down below, in the advanced section, find the Page Links To widget and add a URL of your choosing
5. Optionally check the boxes to enable link opening in a new browser window, or 302 Moved Temporarily redirects
6. Save the post or page

Done! Now that post or page will point to the URL that you choose



Source : http://txfx.net/wordpress-plugins/page-links-to/

How to find out your Wordpress version

You can see the version of your Wordpress listed on the bottom of every admin page. If because of any reason you can not login in to the admin pages and you are wondering how to find out your wordpress version here is the way. Go to following address(/wp-includes/version.php) in your website root folders and open the version.php with a text editor or something ...

/wp-includes/version.php


contains :

$wp_version = '2.8';
$wp_db_version = 4593;