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Over the past 12 months, I’ve written a number of posts that focus on adding functionality to WordPress using custom fields. We’ve looked at creating custom post list templates, crafting the perfect travel blog and more. While plugins like CustomPress and Advanced Custom Fields make creating custom post type easy-peasy, if you want to really understand how they work you …
Are you like me and always have one eye on your website’s traffic stats? Whether your site is personal or for business, more traffic leads to more exposure. And that means more revenue. So it’s understandable why I’m obsessed with my site’s stats, right? In fact, I’m sure you’ve already realized how important it is to have a consistent flow of …
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When you manage multiple WordPress sites on the same web server, keeping your installs organized is a must, especially if you look after client sites. Or maybe you just don’t like installing WordPress in the root of your site. Whatever the case may be, setting up WordPress in a subdirectory provides a tidy solution. In this post, we’re going to …
Since we re-launched WP Smush this time last year, our Smush servers have compressed a whopping 3 billion images. That’s a hell of a lot of cat pics! Try Smush Pro for FREE today >> Every day we smush images on more than 24,000 different WordPress sites, at peak times smushing 200+ images per second without breaking a sweat. All …
WordPress powers more than 15 million websites across the web and I’ve got news for you – not all of them are in English. In fact, one of the reasons the ‘Press is so popular is due to its availability in many languages and the ease with which it can be translated. What’s even more interesting is the fact that …
Object-oriented programming can be difficult to wrap your head around but is important to learn and understand if you want to grow your skills in plugin development. Last year, I wrote about using object-oriented programming (OOP) in plugins through a specific example. Since that article contained a lot of advanced code, I thought it would be a good idea to write …
You already know that if you’re going to modify a WordPress theme you had better be working with a child theme. Modify the theme itself, and all your hard work will be lost the next time the theme is updated. WordPress developers, and most implementers, don’t have any trouble creating a child theme from scratch in just a few minutes. …
So your website has been hacked and you can’t log in, no matter what username and password combination you try. Fortunately, you’re not completely screwed – your database offers a convenient backdoor to help you regain access. If you find that your site has been hacked, or you’ve simply forgotten your password and the admin email for your account is …
WordPress comes with a whole bunch of default scripts out-of-the-box that you can take advantage of to power your themes and plugins. jQuery is one commonly used script, as is TinyMCE. But what if you want to replace a built-in script with your own? We recently looked at how to add jQuery scripts properly to your install. WordPress uses the same mechanism …
