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WordPress 4.7 has delivered some fantastic new enhancements to the CMS’s template system. Templates have now been expanded to include all post types, allowing developers to create more nuanced themes and at the same time allowing site owners to manage content more easily. But how does it all work? In this article, I’ll show you how […]
WP-CLI is a useful time-saving tool for WordPress developers and advanced WordPress users. However, if you’ve never used this command line package before, it can be a little intimidating to get started. Most of us learn best by doing, so that’s what we’re going to do with this tutorial. That way, you can see WP-CLI […]
“Containerization” is a relatively new buzzword in big-company enterprise software circles. Just put a batch of environments in the cloud, or on a server, that just have important applications and little else. The name you hear most often when containers come up is Docker, an open source project that has become a monster. You don’t […]
Having a powerful website and a fantastic UI is important—not only for your visitors’ experience, but also for SEO purposes. That being said, without the right content in place, all that well-planned and laid-out design and development work will go to waste. You want to tell a story through the website you’ve built, right? But how […]
I often get asked if WordPress Multisite is a suitable solution for a company website that has different divisions with unique identities. The answer is usually yes – Multisite can do this excellently. But it isn’t always necessary to create a separate site for each of the divisions in your company website, even using Multisite. If […]
In Stack Overflow’s Developer Survey Results of 2016, JavaScript took home top honors. Not only did it land at the top of the list for full-stack, front-end, and back-end technologies, but 55.4% of people now say they use it over other programming languages. JavaScript is an extremely powerful programming tool for any WordPress developer to have […]
Let’s say you want to do something unique with the way posts are queried and displayed on a particular page of your website. Maybe you want to have multiple queries — one for featured posts and one for recent posts. Or perhaps you want to exclude certain categories of posts from your blog page. Whatever your goal, you decide to …
About 50% of your visitors will abandon your website after 10 seconds or less. Yes, that’s the reality we’re faced with. The good news, however, is that there are many performance-boosting tips you can draw on to help you avoid becoming just another unfortunate statistic. At this point, I should let you know that since everyone’s website is different, it’s near …
Have you ever wanted to create a custom widget for your WordPress website? While WordPress does include a built-in text widget, which you can use to display HTML along with embedded CSS and JavaScript, if you want to do anything more than that the text widget just won’t cut it. What if you want to grab a bit of content …
The WordPress loop is big. It’s huge. It’s critical. Without it, your WordPress site won’t work. By this, I don’t mean that it’s large. In fact, it should be as lean, tight and quick as possible. But it’s a major part of what makes WordPress, well, WordPress. Without it you can’t query the database and display your content, whether that’s …
