Sometimes you may want to exclude posts of certain tag from your WordPress blog’s homepage. Suppose you write paid reviews about some services or freewares available on internet and you don’t like those reviews to appear on your blog’s homepage. You can add a tag to review posts and then exclude the posts of that tag from homepage of your blog. This article will explain you two ways to hide posts of a certain tag from main page of WordPress blog.
WordPress is the best platform for starting a blog as it is free open source software with a large blogging community ready to help any time. Here are some points to consider before choosing WordPress for your blog.
Why Choose WordPress To Start A Blog ?
1. No HTML Knowledge Required
WordPress has a built in editor that works similar to MS Word with fewer controls for less complexity. You may download Windows Live Writer and blog directly from your desktop. Live Writer can synchronize directly with your blog to show the post previews and options to schedule your blog posts.
WordPress is not a platform for only blogging anymore. However users are using it for more advanced purposes like e-commerce and advanced job board websites. Some websites are so professionally designed that it’s not even possible to recognize that these are designed with WordPress. So we can say that there is an advancement in both its uses, design, look and feel.
Video sharing sites like YouTube provide embed code for videos in iFrame format now. It was really easy to embed YouTube videos using old code method. Just copy and paste the embed code and the video is ready to use in posts. But it is not possible to directly insert iFrame code for videos in WordPress visual editor.
If you ever tried to insert videos in your posts using WordPress post editor, you might have noticed that when you paste the code in HTML mode of editor and switch back to visual mode , the video doesn’t shows up and the video code gets disappeared . If you also face such problems in inserting videos to posts then here are 4 ways to embed videos from YouTube and other video sharing sites to WordPress blog post editor. You can choose any method which you find easy for you.
Add YouTube Videos to WordPress Blog Post Editor
1. Using oEmbed Method
oEmbed is an easiest way to embed videos to WordPress blog posts.
oEmbed is a format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third party sites. The simple API allows a website to display embedded content (such as photos or videos) when a user posts a link to that resource, without having to parse the resource directly.
To embed videos using this method, follow the instructions given below:
- Go to YouTube.com and open any video that you want to insert into blog post. At the bottom of the video click on Share button. A short video URL will be displayed. Don’t copy this URL but click Show options link and check on Long link. Now copy the long video URL.
- Paste the long URL that you copied in last step in WordPress post editor in Visual mode but not in HTML mode. When you paste the copied URL in post editor it may be hyperlinked. You need to select this link and click on unlink or press Alt+Shift+S.
- Now preview or publish the post and video should display in YouTube video player.
2. Using Old Embed Code
Old embed code method is the oldest and easiest way to embed videos from YouTube to blog posts. To insert videos using old embed code, follow the instructions given below:
- Like in first method, open YouTube.com in your favorite web browser and open up any video. You will find a Share button at the bottom of the video. Click on that button.
- When you click on Share button, a drop down list of options will be displayed. You need to click on Embed button.
- After you hit the Embed button, you need to check on Use old embed code and copy the whole code for the video.
- Now go to WordPress blog post editor and open HTML mode. Paste the copied code here and preview the post to see confirm if the video is displaying properly or not.
If by chance video is not displaying using this method you can refer to other methods listed in this post.
3. Using WordPress Shortcode API
WordPress Shortcode API is the set of functions to show content in posts or pages. You can read more about it in detail here.
Note: If you are not comfortable with coding then I would not recommend you this method. You should better choose other 3 methods.
First you need to register the shortcode function and define its handler function in functions.php in your themes folder.
add_shortcode('myiframe', 'myiframehandler'); function myiframehandler($atts = null) {extract( shortcode_atts( array( 'width' => 560, 'height' => 349, 'url' =>'', 'frameborder' => 0, 'scrolling' => 'no', 'marginheight' => '0', 'marginwidth' => '0'), $atts ) );return '<iframe width="'.$width.'" height="'.$height.'" src="'.$url.'" frameborder="'.$frameborder.' marginheight="'.$marginheight.' marginwidth="'.$marginwidth.'"></iframe>';}
Few days back Google released its new social networking site Google+. Most of us who got the invitation to Google+ are already experiencing it. Some of us like it but others dislike it. From the WordPress developer point of view one thing that I like the most about this theme is its simple and clean layout. So today I am going to release a free WordPress theme WP Plus based on the layout of Google+.
Few days back I informed you about the Classic American Road trip theme for Windows 7. Now Microsoft has made available yet another Ducati theme for Windows 7 on the Windows personalization gallery.
The gleam of the paint, the grip of the tires, the unmistakable roar of that four-stroke, L-twin, desmodromic valve engine: There is indeed nothing like a Ducati. This free Windows 7 theme is for those who appreciate finer motorcycles.