It’s for a developer easy to criticize a plugin that has just been created, to find random security flaws or over-looked elements of the design that passed unnoticed through the testing phase. As much as I love developing plugins, I’m usually very nervous about other developers criticizing my work, especially in private emails to clients I can spend hours creating all of these perfect features, only for another developer to come along and criticize something that I missed while I was concentrating on a million other things. Futuremore, WordPress plugin development is usually only handled by one developer, so that means you’re in charge of design, security, bug-checking and of adding new features. That sucks, because you’re directly responsible for all of that as well.

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A lot of people like to use shortcodes in WordPress, because it allows them to type one small thing and have it expand into something much larger when they press publish. A web designer with a list of features he implements may have to type that out in various places in his website, but with shortcodes, he just needs to type [features] to have that all appear automatically. Many developers use this as well, to use bits of code that otherwise would be tedious to write out in full.
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First of all you need to download the buttons, so you can do that here.

Download Social Media Icons

You need to upzip that into your images folder, so that the path to them goes something like, “theme/images/(put ‘social-media’ folder here)/”

Then, in your entry.php and your single.php files, add the following code right under the “<?php the_content() ?>”:
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Includes how to rename wp-content, rename wp-admin, and remove the generator tag from WordPress.

Many people, particularly designers and web engineers for high-profiles websites, do not want users to know that they are running WordPress for their websites. For the sake of seeming like a more “hardcore” coder who doesn’t need a pre-built CMS (like, it kind of sucks when you find out that Facebook actually runs on WordPress :O ), or just for security reasons; it is a shame that it is so difficult to change the wp-content and wp-admin folder names very easily through the WordPress admin. This little tutorial will teach you how to do it in any case.

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