Below you'll find a list of all posts from June, 2016
Do you know who is visiting your website? And, more importantly, does the demographic of your visitors even matter? For some businesses and bloggers, that answer is a resounding: YES. If you’re reading this, you probably have (or need to implement) an age requirement restriction for visitors to your site. There are a variety of reasons for needing to restrict …
The WordPress development team has released WordPress 4.6 beta 1. This release includes a new process for installing, updating, and deleting plugins and themes, native fonts in the WordPress backend, and improvements to the post editor. It also contains a number of changes that developers should be aware of. WordPress 4.6 Beta 1 is still in development and should not be used in …
There sure is a lot you need to remember when working with WordPress theme files. From the names of basic template files to functions and how the WordPress Loop works, it’s next to impossible to remember every PHP tag or even how to define a new theme. About 550 students enrolled in our Academy course, WordPress Development for Beginners, are …
If you missed out on attending WordCamp Europe 2016 in Vienna or were not able to attend all the sessions you wanted to see, check out the raw livestream feeds now available on the event’s website. Each day’s sessions are broken down into recordings for morning and afternoon, separated by track: Track 1 Livestream Track 2 Livestream Track 3 Livestream …
Custom post types and taxonomies are what make WordPress a Content Management System (CMS), and not just a blogging platform. With them, you can add your own post types, which you can then display using targeted template files. You can also create custom taxonomies that let you use more than just categories and tags to classify your content. This is …
For the past few months, members of the WordPress Meta team have been hard at work redesigning the WordPress Plugin Directory. That’s why I was surprised to hear a rumor that the project was shut down. I reached out to Konstantin Obenland, WordPress core contributor, who confirmed a number of items. The first is that the project is far from …
Your logo is important. Don’t let an “expert” talk you into something you don’t feel “light” about. View original post at Entrepreneur…
WordPress uses MySQL, an open source database management system, to store and retrieve all of your website’s information, from the content of your posts and pages to your comments, usernames and passwords. If you need to visualize it, think of your site’s database as a filing cabinet and MySQL as the company that made it. MySQL is a popular choice …
Last week, we mentioned that the Advanced WordPress Facebook Group is giving away more than $40K worth of WordPress related prizes away to celebrate crossing the 20,000th member milestone. This past weekend, the prize value jumped to more than $70K after Automattic contributed 100 one-year long Jetpack Pro licenses to the prize pool. Jetpack Professional costs $299 per year and …
How do you build trust among your customers? Follow these critical steps. View original post at Entrepreneur…
