Mike Crumbs

Joined: September 15, 2024
Articles: 18

Beginner, Tutorials

How to limit the excerpt to a number of characters, instead of words

I sometimes find inconvenient the way WordPress trims the excerpt by default, which is by number of words. The number of characters in a word varies so greatly, that trimming by number of words makes the excerpt's length horribly inconsistent.

Mike Crumbs
August 24, 2017
1 Comment

WP Maintenance Mode, Tutorials

How to activate maintenance page (WP Maintenance Mode) programmatically

One of the WP Maintenance Mode users asked the support team how can the maintenance page be activated/deactivated programmatically. In case you were wondering the same thing, this is the solution:

Mike Crumbs
June 5, 2017

Themes

There’s a new Kubrick in town, and it’s responsive

We all remember the golden era when Kubrick was the default theme in WordPress. I was a newbie designer back then, and while blogging was not (yet) very attractive for me, Kubrick managed to make me curious about WordPress and weblogs.

Mike Crumbs
April 22, 2017
2 Comments

Tutorials, Widgets

How to make tabbed widgets without a plugin

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to add a tabbed widget just like the one here on WPCrumbs, without using a plugin. Step 1 · Register the sidebar First, register the new widget area. If you are using a…

Mike Crumbs
March 19, 2017
3 Comments

Themes, Freebies

Techieblog – A Free WordPress Theme for Tech Blogs

Techieblog is a WordPress theme designed for tech-related websites and blogs. It’s our first freebie and we hope you’ll enjoy it and put it to good use. We installed a preview for this free theme which can be viewed by…

Mike Crumbs
March 13, 2017
15 Comments