A mobile content revolution is afoot. Content distribution giants like Facebook, Google, and Apple are delivering content to mobile users in new and innovative ways, leaving content publishers scrambling to keep up. It wasn’t very long ago that having a fully-responsive site was enough, but that is no longer true. In the past month, AMP articles have been added to …
Making Your WordPress Password Hashing Stronger with bcrypt
The WordPress core is secure but you can make the passwords stored in your site’s database even more secure by upgrading from MD5-based password hashing to bcrypt. While some may say otherwise, the WordPress core really is secure, and it’s not that hard to keep your WordPress website safe from most common attacks by using a unique admin username and …
WordPress Multisite Masterclass: Getting Started
If you’re like us here at WPMU DEV, you’re super keen to get the most out of Multisite, so we’ve put together this six-part course to help you master this powerful WordPress feature. Multisite is a powerful tool that will help you create a network of sites to fulfill a variety of purposes, and which you can customize to make life …
Using the Psychology of Color to Boost Your WordPress Website Conversions
When it comes to website design, one of the more important decisions you’ll make involves choosing the right colors. It’s a choice that can make or break your project, especially when you consider all the moving parts that go into creating a successful WordPress site. Nowadays, chances are good that if own a website, you own a business as well. And the …
Using Semantic Markup with WordPress to Improve Your Search Results
Search engines are always modifying how they do things. In just a few years’ time, we’ve gone through a strictly keyword-based search algorithm to a semantic search algorithm that prioritizes context over exact keyword matches. The days of keyword stuffing are long behind us now and if you want to make sure your website ranks as high as possible and …
Getting Your WordPress Website Ready for Facebook Instant Articles
With Facebook’s Instant Articles program open to all content publishers as of April 12, 2016, now is the time to get your WordPress website set up to push posts to Facebook using the proper markup. More than one billion people log onto Facebook from a mobile device every month, and the performance of content viewed using Facebook’s mobile app matters …
What the WordPress REST API Means for Ordinary Users (and Not Developers)
Everyone’s talking about the REST API right now and some pretty grand claims are being made, including an ambition for WordPress to become a component of 100% of the internet, not as a CMS but as an application platform. This is all very exciting for developers, but the vast majority of people working with WordPress are users and not developers. So …
How to Pick the Perfect WordPress Theme
Have you ever picked a WordPress theme and started to put together a website only to realize that you’ve picked the wrong theme? With money and time already invested, switching may be out of the question and you may be stuck using a theme you’d be better off without. Picking a theme is a bit like picking a car: It’s …
Automatically Assign User Roles on Signup with Membership 2 Pro for WordPress
Manually adding members to your site who need different user roles is a real time waster. With Membership 2 Pro, you can easily automate your site’s signups and enable visitors to sign up with a user role or custom capability. Membership 2 Pro comes with add-ons out-of-the-box that let you choose a user role or capability for your members automatically …
The Best WPMU DEV Membership Offer, Ever
Here’s a big thank you to our current and past members (and readers), the best offer we’ve ever made… your chance to lock in WPMU DEV at an astonishing price before things get much more expensive! Over the past two years, we’ve invested hugely in your WPMU DEV membership, from Defender to Hummingbird to Smush to Upfront to The Hub, along with constantly improving and updating …