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A Quick and Dirty Guide to Post Type Templates in WordPress 4.7
WordPress 4.7 has delivered some fantastic new enhancements to the CMS’s template system. Templates have now been expanded to include all post types, allowing developers to create more nuanced themes and at the same time allowing site owners to manage content more easily. But how does it all work? In this article, I’ll show you how […]
How Do You Educate People New to WordPress?
When a friend of mine asked for suggestions on what he should use to create a new site, I suggested WordPress. It is well supported, has an amazing community, and a ton of free themes and plugins to choose from. After getting WordPress installed on a new webhosting account, I left him be to see what issues he would run …
How to Give Away a Free Ebook (and Get More Subscribers) with WordPress
If you like ebooks, you can get a boatload of them by signing up for newsletters. That’s because offering a free ebook download as an incentive for signing up for a mailing list is a time-tested strategy to (hopefully) boost mailing list opt-in rates. There’s a good chance you either use this strategy or have […]
Matt Mullenweg Announces Tech and Design Leads for New Focus-Based Development Cycle
photo credit: Angelina Litvin WordPress core development is kicking off in 2017 with the new focus-based development process that Matt Mullenweg announced during the 2016 State of the Word. The new approach to releases shifts WordPress from the familiar time-based release cycle to one that is more project-based. The idea is that design and user testing will lead the way …
5 Ways Your Business Can Protect Its Online Brand
When new customers Google your brand, do they like what they see?
WPMU DEV Update – 2016 Review (And What’s Coming Up!)
While the world over couldn’t wait to see the back of 2016, it was a huge year for us – our biggest year ever, in fact! We released a stack of new plugins and API services. Seriously, we released loads of products. So to kick off the new year, today we’re launching Update, our new […]
Micro.blog Surpasses Kickstarter Funding Goal, Set to Launch New Social Network for Independent Microblogs
Developer Manton Reece is on a mission to take back short form content for the open web by providing better tools for independent microblogging. Most short form content today is posted through centralized social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, where posts are mixed with promoted content and users have no control of their timelines. There’s no guarantee that …
10 Ways WP-CLI Can Speed Up WordPress Development
WP-CLI is a useful time-saving tool for WordPress developers and advanced WordPress users. However, if you’ve never used this command line package before, it can be a little intimidating to get started. Most of us learn best by doing, so that’s what we’re going to do with this tutorial. That way, you can see WP-CLI […]
W3Techs Ranks WordPress as the Fastest Growing CMS of 2016
photo credit: Luis Llerena W3Techs published its Web Technologies of 2016 report today, compiling technologies that saw the largest increase in usage last year. The survey pulls data from the top 10 million sites (according to Alexa rankings) and compares the number of sites for each technology by measuring the difference from January 1, 2016 to January 1, 2017. W3Techs …