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Ever wondered what the most popular free WordPress plugins are and why they’re so freaking popular? Knowing the answer could help you understand which ones are a must to install on your site (or even what kinds of plugins you should be building). The more plugins you include in your site, the more you weigh it down and run the …
WordPress has become synonymous with ease of use and flexibility. With an intuitive interface, plugins, themes, and other tools to help users build websites, WordPress has quickly become the content management system of choice. The subject of website customization is nothing new. Articles and guides are created all the time with the purpose of educating developers and others working in WordPress …
Plugins let you add or change how your sites looks or functions. And the best part? Just about any kind of functionality you can dream up for your site, you can turn into a plugin and make it happen. This is the third post in our WordPress Development for Intermediate Users series. This series follows on from our popular WordPress …
Don’t have access to your WordPress admin? Or can’t access the settings for a plugins? Don’t sweat it – you can still reset or delete and uninstall WordPress or your plugin manually. There are many situations where you may need to rewind and go with a manual uninstall, such as if you’re testing new features out on your install, want to start …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
You know how we’re the Multisite experts here at WPMU DEV? Well, we want to upload everything we know about Multisite directly into your brain, Matrix-style. Enrollments are now open for three new courses in The Academy: WordPress Multisite Masterclass, WordPress Development for Intermediate Users, and (by popular demand) our CEO James Farmer’s hugely successful Dream Small, Market Big & …
