Whether you’re a developer or an admin overseeing multiple WordPress sites, I’m sure you’ve thought to yourself: “I wish I could do this faster.” From creating a fresh install for testing to updating the same plugin on multiple sites, there are so many tasks you’ll find yourself doing over and over again. WP-CLI is the answer to your woes and …
Changing or Updating Your Version of PHP for WordPress
If you want to keep your website running smoothly, it’s a good idea you change or update the version of PHP it’s running on soon since PHP 7 could soon be a minimum requirement for self-hosted WordPress sites by mid-2017. And since PHP is the programming language that forms the backbone of WordPress, this is one tutorial you shouldn’t put off. …
Understanding and Using the WordPress Hook System
We’ve been covering quite a few WordPress web development topics recently, so you’ve probably already heard about hooks, actions, and filters. These are an essential part of the using the event-driven architecture used by WordPress. And they are your path to creating your own custom “version” of WordPress to suit your needs. In a nutshell, an event-driven architecture is a way …
Making Your WordPress Website Fly: A Performance Optimization Tutorial
Whether you’re working for a client or developing your own WordPress projects, you don’t need me to tell you that speed matters. A lot. And contrary to the well-known cliche, it’s really the lack of speed that kills when it comes to the web. If you depend on WordPress for your livelihood, then it had better perform: Ignore site speed …
Advanced WordPress Development: Using Gulp to Streamline Your Workflow
No matter what languages you’ve used in the past to development websites, you’ve no doubt had to complete menial, monotonous tasks – image optimization, JavaScript minification, concatenation, compiling supersets like SCSS and CoffeeScript to their native counterparts, creating the final build… just to name a few. Fortunately, build scripts such as Gulp and Grunt can take care of these rather …
New Upfront WordPress Magazine Theme – Say Hello to Issue
Another week, another lot of new goodies for WPMU DEV members, and this time round it’s a stylish, crisp magazine-inspired theme that works straight outta the box with our WordPress theme framework Upfront…. say helloooo to Issue. Our new magazine-inspired WordPress theme for Upfront. Check out a live preview of the theme here or find out more and download it …
How to Show Different Menus to Different WordPress User Roles
If you’ve already taken the time to nail down the perfect navigation for your WordPress site, the next thing on your todo list should be working out how much of your website’s menu should be visible to your site’s visitors. For many websites, there probably isn’t much need to customize navigation. However, if you happen to run a website with …
Advanced WordPress Development: Using the Command Line
While mention of the command line strikes fear into the hearts of many developers, the truth is that it is an easy to use and immensely helpful tool for development. Once you understand how it works, the command line is straightforward to use and will streamline how you work, saving you a bunch of time. This is the fourth post …
10 Email Templates Every Web Developer Needs to Keep Handy
Let’s face it — writing emails is not fun. It’s time-consuming, requires rewrites, and needs proofreading. But as someone who runs a web development business, you send emails daily. You virtually run your business on emails. Which means you spend several hours each day crafting and revising them. Which also means that if you streamline all of this emailing you …
How to Build a Successful Website: The 5 Core Factors You Need
This isn’t one of those dime-a-dozen list posts that tells you which must-have plugins you need to have installed on your WordPress website if you want it to be successful. No, because building a successful website actually takes a lot more forethought than that. Thanks to Wix, Squarespace and all of the other site builders that are popping up all …










