As you can probably already tell, this post is a little on the “advanced” side, but it does tackle a topic that’s very interesting and presents a new branch for us to follow on this whole mobile-first path for our websites and/or apps.
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Raw data, stats, charts and graphs. Including those is your no.1 way of taking a blog post (or any online article) to the next level in terms of content quality and authority.
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If you’ve built simple themes in the past, chances are the need to retrieve posts on your own didn’t arise. After all, WordPress loads the most recent 10 posts on the main page and the correct posts on archive pages. What about more complex scenarios? What if you would like a sitemap of sorts and you want to list all your posts and pages ordered by date?
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Since the inception of WordPress plugins many years ago not a lot has changed in the way we write them. There's a main plugin file with a header followed by the Wild West basically. Apart from using hooks, there is no standardized way of making plugins. In this article, we'll look at one possible solution - WordPress Plugin Boilerplate. It is meant to be a starting point for plugin development, an object oriented way of creating a standardized plugin.
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Building option panels for plugins have never been a fun task. It is usually the thing developers do at the end, and most developers do not put much effort into designing their options panel at all. But can you make an options page with components from Gutenberg?
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If you’ve spent any time in the WordPress community over the past few years, chances are you’ve heard reference made to the new REST API. However, unless you’re an experienced developer, you may not have any idea what the WordPress REST API actually is.
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It helps to have inspiration when designing a website. With that inspiration, you can figure out which website builders, themes, and plugins were used to create websites you admire. But most websites don’t tell you on the homepage that they’re made using WordPress, Wix, or Weebly, so we put together a guide on how to tell if a website is WordPress.
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Did you know that website speed is one of Google’s ranking factors? While it might not be one of the top reasons a website doesn’t rank on the first page of search, that won’t be the case for long.
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If you want to build a landing page with WordPress then you have a handful of possibilities. We even listed some of them a while ago. But since then, we’ve seen a lot of development in the realm of builder plugins and code-free site constructing in general. So let’s explore some of that today.
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It’s not often that a WordPress developer doesn’t modify the functions.php file within a theme they’re developing. Why? Because functions.php gives you the power to control functionality specific to the theme. With some simple code inclusions and/or modifications, you can override existing website functionality and execute multiple functions in an efficient manner, instead of using potentially bulky and insecure plugins to achieve the same thing.
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If you’re a WordPress developer, you probably do most of your work in test environments. That way, you can tinker with your plugins, themes, and sites all you want without breaking anything for real. The only question is, which local WordPress development tools are the best fit for your needs?
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Many people wonder how to make a WordPress website. They’ve heard about WordPress, its incredible popularity, excellent features and designs, and now they want to join the pack and build a WordPress website of their own. So, where does one get started? Regardless of how advanced you might be with the platform, we have a tailor-made resource for you here.
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If you’re like most bloggers, you spend a ton of time on your blog posts. Crafting the perfect headline. Writing that intro that grabs readers just right. And while your posts certainly are important…how much time does that leave to spend on your blog homepage? Or, maybe a better question – do you even have a WordPress blog homepage that’s not just a list of your most recent posts?
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How to speed up WordPress surely is a hot topic these days. Fortunately, there are numerous techniques that you can employ to get the job done. So, our intent here is to list every trick we know of that can make your WordPress site a lot faster.
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WordPress is not perfect as a web development platform, especially when working with clients. That's why we need to adapt a certain approach if we want to make them happy (read: so they will pay us).
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TL;DR: “WordPress and eCommerce”? Who would have guessed just 5 years ago that this would be a viable possibility. Surely not anyone in my university class. Nevertheless, we’re here. And WordPress is now perfectly capable of handling an eCommerce business of any type, basically. So to check the extent of that, we’re looking into the topic of creating a physical product marketplace like Etsy … all on WordPress.
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The great thing about working with WordPress is that the best WordPress help is never hard to find. Whether you have a simple question about resetting your password, or a more complex issue concerning custom post types, there is support and education available for all levels of users.
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In this guide, I’ll present some creative ideas on how you can use HTML tables / data tables in WordPress, make them look pristine ✨, and also make sure that they’re optimized for mobile and are SEO-friendly at the same time.
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“Why bother with WordPress cheat sheets?” – you ask. Well, maybe it’s just me, but I find it rather hard to remember all those keyboard shortcuts, function names, arguments, structures and whatnots that all come “with the territory” when you’re doing any kind of WordPress dev, design, or publishing work.
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Not sure how to change your WordPress theme without causing issues on your site? While the basic process of changing your theme only involves a few button clicks, you’ll want to put in some extra steps to ensure a seamless changeover when it comes to key details such as menus, custom CSS, custom templates, and more.
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As of WordPress 5.0's release on December 6, 2018, WordPress has a new default content editor. Called the WordPress Gutenberg editor while in development, "Gutenberg" is now just the "WordPress editor" or "block editor" if you want to be more specific.
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Ever since the latter half of 2015, the concept of Accelerated Mobile Pages for WordPress as well as other website technologies has been in discussion. Web developers, WordPress people, SEO experts, and everyone else associated with content creation or management has been talking about the AMP Project.
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As functionality and interactivity increase on the web, there has been a steady increase in web page size over the last few years. As of early 2018, the average page size on the internet stood at over 2 MB! How to battle this? A little something called lazy loading images is one of the better solutions.
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