Below you'll find a list of all posts from 2016
I’m a WordPress nerd and as a WordPress nerd, I hate seeing error pages on my site. It means I broke something, but at least I can fix it – visitors can’t and neither can yours, and that’s way worse than any error. That’s why creating your own custom error pages, including 404 pages, can help […] View original post at …
WordPress.org made its new homepage redesign live today. The meta team worked quickly to put the new design in place in time for the holidays. “While this is only the first iteration, the plan is to continue design and development to create something truly amazing,” Mark Uraine said in the announcement. “This is the first step toward that goal.” The …
Who are you, and what can you contribute? Once your consumer audience knows these things, you’re on your way. View original post at Entrepreneur…
The humble navigation menu. It’s an important part of your WordPress site that lets your visitors find their way around and helps to structure your content. Every theme will have a slot for it somewhere at the top of each page. But are navigation menus just for your site header? The truth is that they can do much […] View original post at …
Bradley Kirby released version 1.0 of his Wallace WordPress theme today. The theme is built using the WP REST API and Angular 2. Kirby has been working on Wallace for the past two years and has rewritten it several times in order to keep pace with changes in the REST API and Angular. If you view the Wallace demo, you’ll …
Strengthen your brand image through appropriately themed video content. View original post at Entrepreneur…
Your WordPress site needs to load in a flash just like the Flash since 40% of people leave slow sites. Fortunately, WP Smush Pro is the image-smushing super power you need to speed up your website without breaking a sweat. WP Smush Pro compresses your images to reduce their file size and speed up your site. All without having to […] View original post at …
A WordPress.org homepage redesign is now in the works with a strong focus on marketing to new users. As the face of the open source project, the site is long overdue for some design attention. Mark Uraine, a designer at Automattic, posted on the Make/Meta blog about how quickly the project is coming together: “During the Contributor Day at WordCamp …
Is all traffic to your website “good” traffic? When you’re starting out it may seem that way (superficially anyway). However, it’s best to look at your WordPress site’s traffic as you would publicity: any publicity doesn’t necessarily make for good publicity. There are a variety of reasons why you may want to control where your […] View original post at …
For the past two weeks, I’ve been helping a friend build his site. The site uses WordPress and BuddyPress and is the first opportunity I’ve had to use BuddyPress for a project. The site is dedicated to a Hockey League league that’s specific to a video game. The league has a number of players and teams. By default, when a …
