Little chewy bits of goodness. Basically, whatever we want to talk about (or think is cool content).
WordPress 4.7 was only recently released in December and numerous user experience and developer, not to mention Twenty Seventeen, a brand new default theme. If you haven’t already checked out this new version of WordPress, here’s what you need to know. Introducing the Twenty Seventeen WordPress Theme Work began on Twenty Seventeen shortly after last year’s […]
The WP-CLI open source project will be coming under the WordPress.org umbrella in 2017. After recent talks with Daniel Bachhuber, WP-CLI’s official maintainer, Matt Mullenweg announced WordPress’ support for the project, calling it “one of the highest impact developments for WP in many years.” The wp-cli.org website will soon be migrated to WordPress.org and a CLI Make site with its …
If you want to write articles about trending topics, then trying to keep up-to-date with everything happening in your niche can be a full-time job in itself. Fortunately, there are tools and techniques available that can help make this process easier. Content about trending topics is beneficial because you know that what you’re writing about is […]
The WordPress core makes it’s easy to password protect posts and pages — a handy feature if you want to easily limit access to certain content. The only problem is that any images or videos you display on those pages can still be accessed by going straight to the media attachment pages. This can be […]
Have you found that your WordPress site’s on the fritz and all you can say is “I didn’t do anything, I swear!?” Yet, you see errors that say your files or database are broken, missing or corrupted. Anything from posts and categories sporadically disappearing and reappearing to error messages like: “Warning: require_once(path/to/file.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open […]
In this episode of WordPress Weekly, Marcus Couch and I recap the news and headlines of the first half of 2016. Part two will be recorded on January 4th, 2017, where we’ll look back at the headlines during the second half of 2016, give our predictions for 2017, and share what we’re looking forward to in the new year. WPWeekly …
Twenty Seventeen is the most versatile default theme WordPress has ever seen. However, the options built into the theme leave a few things to be desired. In this post, I’ll show you five hacks you can use to make Twenty Seventeen uniquely your own. We’ll start with the basics and move on to more challenging […]
“Containerization” is a relatively new buzzword in big-company enterprise software circles. Just put a batch of environments in the cloud, or on a server, that just have important applications and little else. The name you hear most often when containers come up is Docker, an open source project that has become a monster. You don’t […]
WordPress Multisite has many uses. You can use it to create a profitable network of sites which people create themselves, to manage your own sites, to host sites for clients and much more. But something that clients often ask me about is using it to power a network of sites for a company that has separate divisions with […]
Having a powerful website and a fantastic UI is important—not only for your visitors’ experience, but also for SEO purposes. That being said, without the right content in place, all that well-planned and laid-out design and development work will go to waste. You want to tell a story through the website you’ve built, right? But how […]
