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Do you want to display code snippets on your WordPress development tutorial Posts?  By default, WordPress filters out the raw code that added to posts, pages or comments. In this article, I’ll explain how to display code snippets on WordPress Posts easily.

Install and Activate the Syntax Highlighter Evolved Plugin:

Syntax Highlighter Evolved Plugin allows you to add the code snippets on your WordPress website easily without losing its formatting. The plugin uses simple shortcodes to display the code snippets on your WordPress website. Especially, if you write the blog on coding, this plugin allows you to add code snippets easily on your WordPress website.

First, you need to install and activate the Syntax Highlighter Evolved Plugin.  Check this step by step guide on how to install WordPress plugins on your website.

After installing the syntax highlighter evolved plugin, navigate to Settings > Syntax Highlighter to configure the settings.

The plugin supports some smart features like

• Different color themes to highlight the code
• Display the line numbers
• Display the toolbar
• Copy/paste code
• Code wrapping
• Tab sizes
• Code title
• Starting line number (default is 1)
• Line number padding
• Tab sizes

Review all the settings and make changes as per your needs. Click on save changes in order to store the settings.

How to display code snippets on WordPress Posts?

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Creating an Archives page for your WordPress website is a great way to arrange and bring together all your content on a dedicated page. You can easily create an Archives page for WordPress website. In this article, I’ll explain how to create an Archives page for WordPress website easily.

What is WordPress Archives Page?

Archives Page is a collection of your blog posts, where you can list your posts by category, tags, author, year and month wise.

Why we need An Archives Page for WordPress Website?

Archives Page is like an index page of your website. Archives Page helps to bring together all your content on a dedicated page and helps a user to easily find any post by category, tag and author.

A user can find any post using the search form on your website. To extend this feature and to find any post by category, tag and author, every website needs to have an Archives Page.

Let’s check how to create an Archives Page for WordPress Website.

How to Create an Archives Page for WordPress Website?

The first thing you need to do is creating a page template for Archives Page. But before creating a page template for Archives Page, we need to check whether your current theme is having an Archives Page template. This will help you to decide whether we need to create an Archives Page template or simply using the existing one.

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By default, WordPress comes with two different ways to create content – posts and pages. It’s very important for WordPress users to create content using posts and pages in WordPress to get the better SEO. But often WordPress beginners get confused on posts vs pages in WordPress and which content type need to use on their WordPress website. To help you understand when you should use posts and when you should use pages, I’m going to differentiate between Posts vs Pages in WordPress. Let’s start.

Posts in WordPress:

Posts are displayed in reverse chronological order on the website homepage or blog page. Due to the reverse chronological order, a most recent post appears first. Older posts are archived based on month and year. WordPress posts have official publish date and author. Posts are content entries and you should use posts to write a blog post on your website.

When you create a WordPress post, you can assign categories and tags for the post. It helps to organize your posts easily and make easier for your readers to find the posts what they are looking for. You can easily style your content depending on the post type using post formats option like “Photo”, “Video”, “Gallery”, “Link” etc. You can choose “Standard” if you prefer a standard layout.

Posts are displayed in the RSS Feed of your blog. RSS feed is a stream of your posts and updated when new content is published on your blog. This allows a reader to notify when a new post is published to a feed. Posts have a built-in commenting feature which allows users to comment on any posts. You can use social sharing plugins to allow users to share your post on social media like Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, Google + etc.

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By default, WordPress allows HTML tags in the comments section such as <a> <strong>. So many people just leave the comment for links which leads to Spam. We all hate spam comments which are just posted for links. Most spam comments are made by bots using HTML tags. By installing the Akismet plugin we can filter the spam comments but it does not stop the HTML tags in the comments section. We can prevent the spam by just disabling the HTML in WordPress comments. In this article, I’ll explain how to disable HTML in WordPress comments which helps to remove spam from your website easily.

You can easily disable HTML in WordPress comments by installing the Comment Link Remove plugin.

Comment Link Remove plugin is the all in one solution to fight with comment spam. This plugin removes author links and any other links from the user comments. Usually, spammer leaves a comment to get the do-follow or no-follow link from your website. Comment Link Remove plugin provides options to remove author links and any other hyperlinks from comments. You can choose to enable/disable the following options to discourage the comments spam on your website.

• Remove website field from comment form
• Remove hyperlink from comment author
• Disable turning URL’s into hyperlinks in comments
• Remove HTML link tags in comments
• Disable comments globally
• Hide existing comments
• Open comment links in the new tab

You can also delete all comments, delete pending comments and delete spam comments from using a plugin in the single shot.

How to disable HTML in WordPress comments?

You can easily disable HTML in WordPress comments by installing the Comment Link Remove plugin.

Login to your WordPress dashboard, install and activate the Comment Link Remove plugin. For more details on how to install the WordPress plugin, check this guide.

After installing the Comment Link Remove plugin, go to settings in your WordPress dashboard and click on QC CLR Settings.

Now enable below 2 options in Comment Link Remove settings.

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