Title: th23 Specials
Author: th23
Published: مئی 2, 2025
Last modified: مئی 3, 2025
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# th23 Specials
By [th23](https://profiles.wordpress.org/th23/)
[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/th23-specials.6.0.3.zip)
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## Description
Customize your WordPress website even more to your needs via **simple admin settings**
instead of code modifications.
Setting up new websites from time to time I realized, that I keep using **similar
sets of modifications over and over again**. This plugin gives you a wide range
of modifications at hand **without any core or theme code changes** – making them
persistent across updates or switching to another theme.
th23 Specials core features include (all available as options in admin dashboard):
* Mail sending via **SMTP server** instead of default PHP mail function – and with
custom subject prefix
* **Revision and edit restrictions** for posts and pages
* **Highlighting in titles** of posts and pages – for custom styling via theme
* **Category selection** via radio button, forcing single category assignment and
option to restrict available categories – via Classic and Gutenberg / Block editor
* **Excerpts** for pages
* **Sticky posts** also sticky on archive pages
* Disabling **author links and archives**
* Enforcing usage of **more tag / block / separator** in posts and pages – preventing
too long full text display on home and overview pages
* Disable various **headers** – core version info, links, jQuery Migrate, inline
CSS, emojis, oEmbed, legacy contact options
#### Usage
Simply install plugin and choose customizations required from the plugin settings
page. Few options involve further actions to achieve required result – **see below
and FAQ section** for more details.
For **highlighting in post / page titles**, put part to highlight in between `*matching
stars*` in the editor. This part will be enclosed by `` tags in the
HTML on the frontend, allowing styling by theme via the CSS selector `.entry-title
span`.
#### NOTE
Some options change important core functionality of WordPress – make sure you **
properly test your website** before usage in production environment!
## Screenshots
* [[
* Settings section in the admin dashboard with easy to reach options
* [[
* Category selection (when limited to one per post) via radion buttons in the quick
edit view
* [[
* Enforced “read more” block in the Gutenberg / block editor
## Installation
For a manual installation upload extracted `th23-specials` folder to your `wp-content/
plugins` directory.
The plugin is **configured via its settings page in the admin area**. Find all options
under `Settings` -> `th23 Specials`. The options come with a description of the
setting and its behavior directly next to the respective settings field.
## FAQ
### Is there a way to identify existing posts / pages that do not comply with the one category only requirement or that are missing the “read more” block / tag?
Yes, there are links in the descriptions on the th23 Specials settings page, **next
to the respective option** to search for “non-compliant” posts / pages.
Upon a click on this link you will see all currently non-compliant posts / pages.
You can modify these by clicking on their titles, which loads them into your default
editor.
### Some settings seem to have no effect – eg oEmbed features are still active depsite deactivated?
This might be happening as **some options can be “overruled”** by settings by your
theme. For settings that might be affected, please see the description on the settings
page.
To change such settings, please **check your active theme** and adjust them there,
if required.
## Reviews
There are no reviews for this plugin.
## Contributors & Developers
“th23 Specials” is open source software. The following people have contributed to
this plugin.
Contributors
* [ th23 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/th23/)
[Translate “th23 Specials” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/th23-specials)
### Interested in development?
[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/th23-specials/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/th23-specials/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/th23-specials/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/th23-specials/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).
## Changelog
#### v6.0.3
* fix: upgrade to th23 Admin class 1.7.0, removing some inconsistencies
#### v6.0.2
* enhancement: upgrade to th23 Plugin Info class 1.0.0
* fix: upgrade to th23 Admin class 1.6.2
#### v6.0.1
* fix: update th23 Admin class to v1.6.1
* fix: typos and wording adjustments
#### v6.0.0
* n/a: first public release
## Meta
* Version **6.0.3**
* Last updated **12 months ago**
* Active installations **Fewer than 10**
* WordPress version ** 4.2 or higher **
* Tested up to **6.8.5**
* PHP version ** 8.0 or higher **
* Language
* [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/th23-specials/)
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## Contributors
* [ th23 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/th23/)
## Support
Got something to say? Need help?
[View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/th23-specials/)
## Donate
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