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By default, WordPress automatically creates paragraphs on your post content. While this is generally useful, you might want to change this behavior to fit your specific needs. Today’s recipe explains how you can disable automatic paragraphs.

Using the “Categories to Tags” tool, WordPress allows you to easily turn categories into tags. But if you have lots of categories to convert, this will take a while. Here is a simple SQL query that will turn all your categories into tags in a second.

When displaying your latest posts on the homepage, you might want to exclude some categories from displaying on this page. Here is a simple recipe to exclude specific categories from your blog homepage.

Do you want to win a free premium theme from our friends at ThemeFuse? Well, today’s might be your lucky day as ThemeFuse will give away 3 premium themes to WPRecipes readers.

By default, when someone click on your author posts URL, he is redirected to your author archive page. It is useful on multi-author blogs, but if there’s only one author on your blog, author archives are pointless. Here is a quick tip to redirect your author archive link to your “About” page.

Google Maps are very useful to show locations on your blog, but they can be a bit tricky to integrate, especially for client or non tech-savvy users. Here is a shortcode that will make Google Maps integration super easy.

By default, when you (or someone else) fail to login on your wp-admin, WordPress displays an error message. While those messages might be useful, they can also be used by hackers to track their progress. Here is a nice tip to prevent WordPress from displaying login errors.