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WordPress has come a long way since its humble beginnings in 2003. Its functionality and design has evolved from a very simple user interface to a more complex one, especially with regard to the dashboard. But is more complex necessarily better? If you’ve been using WordPress for a while, it’s likely you know the dashboard like the back of your …
WordPress has plenty of responsive themes to choose from; both free and premium. Many of them bear copy that states each of them is the best (and the last) WordPress theme you’ll ever need. But how do you know which of these themes truly stands up to its claims and which are just full of hot air? Going through the …
Jason Coleman, creator of the popular Paid Memberships Pro plugin, published a post today, warning users that many payment gateways will soon require TLS 1.2. The encryption protocol secures communication between the server and customers’ browsers so that things like credit card numbers and addresses can be transferred safely. Coleman outlined the requirements that a server should support in order …
Surely you’ve seen them many times. They show up as banners at the top or bottom of webpages or as distracting popups. Virtually every website based in the EU is supposed to display them. What am I referring to? Cookie consent notices. Have you ever wondered why some sites display a cookie consent notice? Do you know whether or not your …
Yesterday, Nick Halsey, one of the maintainers of the WordPress Customize component, published a proposal to add content authorship to menus in the customizer. This feature is specifically targeted at new users who might wish to set up a menu that includes pages which have not yet been created. The scenario is familiar to those who have set up a …
How many times have you come across an article which suggests ways to make your WordPress website faster? You’re probably sick and tired of them. The sorry thing is most of them recycle the same old tricks over and over again. I’ve got news for you: The bad news is that this is another article on how to make your WordPress website …
PHP[World] 2016 will be held November 14-18 in Washington, D.C. This will be the third edition of the conference, which aims to bring together the various sub-communities that are linked by the PHP programming language (including Drupal, WordPress, CakePHP, Magento, Laravel, and others.) The call for speakers opened today and organizers welcome submissions from the WordPress community for its dedicated …
The music streaming platform may be counting on nostalgia to help make an impact in a crowded field. View original post at Entrepreneur…
It used to be that if you wanted to give users of your themes a way to customize aspects of their site or the theme, you’d create a theme options page. But now the best way (and the expected method for themes submitted to the theme directory) is to make use of the Customizer. This is the second post in …
After more than a year in development, Gravity Forms 2.0 is available for download. This release contains a number of new features and developer enhancements. Conditional logic is now supported by more fields and can be used on multi-input fields such as Name and Address. The underlying code contains improvements that provide the foundation for upcoming Add-ons that will utilize conditional …
