WordPress: disable password reset

So you would like to take full control of your WordPress blog's / website's user management, and thus want to disable the password reset function (maybe you only want to allow specific users to access it), and thought it's just one simple function in your functions.php file, and that's it?

Well, it turns out it's a little more than that, otherwise you'll miss the important bits and pieces, and will end up keeping a backdoor open.

So let me share with you the full code that is needed to ensure password reset is disabled completely in your WordPress blog or website:

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I just transformed a photographer's PixelPost photoblog into a Wordpress website making sure that the design is kept the same and only the platform would be easier to handle which, according to the client's feedback, worked out very well! Check it out here: Dió Fotóstúdió (Hungarian)

EDITED: note that the above website has now moved, the new website address and details of my work on rebuilding it can be found in my newer post called Website rebuilt by webeno - teklalight.com.

How to add sidebar (widget) placeholder in Wordpress

I didn't find too many posts on Google about this, so I thought I'm going to help you guys to add sidebar (widget) placeholder in Wordpress; it's really so simple:

1 Register your sidebar

Simply open your template's functions.php (by default it's wp-content/themes/[yourtheme] - where [yourtheme] is the folder name of your theme):

How to change style of Wordpress, Joomla!... CMS's

While it took me some time to find the best practice, I'm going to provide you with the easiest and fastest way to style your CMS (Wordpress, Joomla!) template, it is very simple actually: just open your blog / website with the template, look at the source code (you'll find an option 'View Source Code' or something similar in most of the browsers right-clicking anywhere on the page), locate the id's and classes you would like to modify, then go ahead and make a source code (or in file text) search among the template files (preferably .css) for the specific id or class name and change it as you please.

Display different content for non-registered users and for registered users on Wordpress

I was looking up information as to how can I make sure that a WordPress.org blog displays different content for non-registered users and again a completly other content for registered users, but honestly I couldn't find any article or thread that explained it very well or simply missed the non-registered users part.

The code I'm going to provide you with below is an example to how I resolved this (very simple actually).

Setting Up WordPress On Your PC Using XAMPP

You remember my post about XAMPP - the ultimate way to test a website before launch - a must have Freeware!? Well, it's really a must have application for a webdesigner. And of course, WordPress can be used with it too. If you want to know how, check out this guide: Setting Up WordPress On Your PC Using XAMPP.