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If you spend any amount of time on social media you’ve probably noticed almost everyone uses short links in their status updates. Most of the time, folks use Bit.ly but some have gone a step further and opted for a personalized short domain. And you can, too. Aside from the ability to easily share long links and the fact that you …
It’s important to know just how well your WordPress website can handle large amounts of traffic in the event you get a sudden traffic spike. With Tsung, you can stress test your site for free, see your server’s limits first-hand, and use the data to create a plan to scale your site. Tsung (formerly IDX-Tsunami) is an open source distributed …
Social media is important. I know that, you know that. So why do I keep blathering on about it? Well, because understanding how you can best integrate social media into your websites can aid in the success of your site tremendously. I mean, just think about it: social media makes your website look relevant and up-to-date. It gives your visitors …
Community-powered websites encompass everything from Facebook to Twitter to Reddit. And if you’re thinking about setting up your own online community, WordPress is the perfect platform for creating and engaging with your own custom audience. The advantages of building your own community-powered website are numerous: increased traffic to your site, the “passive” creation of SEO content, and direct access to your …
Whether you want your users to log in from the front-end or backend of your websites, WordPress allows you to fully customize the experience for both. Occasionally, when building a WordPress website you might think that the built-in login page doesn’t exactly meet your needs. Sometimes, you might want the login form embedded into your site’s front-end. Other times, you …
If you’ve started building your own theme, or maybe even creating a child theme to customize another theme, then you’ll have learned all about template files and the theme template hierarchy. But what about the theme functions.php file? The functions file is where you put all of the functionality your theme needs that doesn’t relate just to one template, so it …
In recent weeks, we’ve rolled out the biggest changes to our member dashboard ever. Introducing The Hub, your mission control for monitoring the vital stats of all your WordPress websites, including uptime, performance, and security. Add as many sites as you want – including Multisite networks – and receive instant security alerts whenever a vulnerability is spotted on any of …
The WordPress REST API will solve lots of problems and have more uses than we’ve even begun to explore just yet. But it’s no magic bullet and there will be times when you’re better off not using it at all. There still isn’t a huge number of developers or agencies using the REST API for live sites, partly because the …
Creating a premium events site for your members, like Meetup.com, Ticketmaster or EventBrite, isn’t out of reach with WordPress – and is easily done when you pair our Events+ and Membership 2 Pro plugins. Integrating these plugins allows you to create a site – or network – where visitors can sign up to view event information and buy tickets. You …
If you’ve been building your own themes for a while, chances are you’ve been adding code to the functions.php file. Sometimes you might have wondered if you should be writing a plugin instead, but you weren’t sure how. In many cases, writing a plugin is better practice than adding code to your functions.php file. And creating a plugin is far …
