As we discover better ways to secure WordPress websites, it’s easy to feel a bit more relaxed about the whole thing… which is both good and bad. It’s good because it means we trust the tools and services we’ve invested in to harden security in WordPress. It’s bad though when we mistakenly confuse the tightening […] View original post at …
How to Create a Winning Promotional Schedule in WordPress
Think about your favorite ecommerce company. Now, think about why you like them so much. I’m willing to bet it has something to do with their online marketing efforts that seem to always reach you at the perfect time. I’ll use Victoria’s Secret as an example. I know that, as a customer, they’re going to […] View original post at …
The Ultimate Guide to DNS for WordPress
DNS can be a headache. It’s one of those aspects of website management that can either be a breeze or take days to sort out. I should know – I recently spent a week trying to transfer a domain name, which eventually involved failed redirects, htaccess editing and the site going down! Luckily it’s fixed […] View original post at …
5 Click-to-Tweet Plugins for Adding Social Sharing to WordPress
Here’s a statistic that might blow your mind: there are 500 million tweets sent out each day. Obviously, for users that only tweet a few or even a dozen times a day, what are the chances anyone will see your posts amid all that incessant activity? If you’re using Twitter as part of your website’s […] View original post at …
WordPress Development: Working with Arrays
If you’re creating variables to save values in your WordPress code, there may well come a time when it’s more efficient for you to use an array. An array (or more specifically, an array of variables) lets you save multiple pieces of data using just one variable. It means you can save multiple records in […] View original post at …
How to Grow a WordPress Site: Run It Like a Business
When you think about the best way to manage your WordPress site, your first thought probably goes to the three S’s: security, speed, and SEO. While these are essential parts of maintaining and managing the outward appearance of a WordPress site, there is a lot more you should be aware of behind the scenes in […] View original post at …
Brutalist Web Design: Where Did It Come From and Why Is It Back?
It’s the start of a new year, which means everyone is making predictions on which new web design trends we’ll see pop up on WordPress sites this year. One of the predictions I’ve seen a lot of and originally was not too thrilled about is brutalist web design. Here’s the thing: I don’t want to […] View original post at …
The 17 Best Google Chrome Extensions for Web Developers
Though it may seem like forever, Google Chrome has only been around since 2008. Regardless, in its 10 short years, Google Chrome has become the most used and most popular web browser of all web browsers available. Although Chrome hasn’t ever matched (or bested) the same popularity Internet Explorer (IE) once enjoyed in the early […] View original post at …
12 Ways to Freshen Up Your WordPress Site for the New Year
Do you find it hard to keep up with your WordPress site when you have a business to run and projects to keep moving through the pipeline? If so, you should think about using the slow period at the start of Q1 as your chance to get ahead of the curve. In other words, as […] View original post at …
Code Your Own Autosuggest Enabled Advanced Search WordPress Plugin
Want to add advanced search functionality without depending on third-party plugins or themes? Build your own advanced WordPress Search Plugin with support for autosuggest, custom post types, taxonomies, custom fields, and caching from the ground up. In this article, I’ll show you how to build an object-oriented plugin to add a shortcode-based advanced search form […] View original post at …

