10 Code Snippets for Customising Your WordPress Site

One of the best things about building your site with WordPress is that no matter what functionality you want to achieve, there's almost certainly a plugin to help. However, every new plugin install adds an additional level of complexity to your site and with that comes a slight lag in load time.

The good news is that you don't need to install a hefty plugin to extend the functionality of your site. Whether you want to adjust your post autosave frequency or schedule a post to be taken down automatically, you can achieve this simply by adding a few lines of code to your website files.

I’ve tried and tested some of the most useful website features you can add to your WordPress site with just a few lines of code. I’ll share these features in a minute but, first I’d like to show you how to safely add code snippets to your theme's function.php file.

How To Safely Edit The function.php File:

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