If you’ve ever needed to make tweaks to a third party theme, or you’re using a theme framework, you’ll be familiar with child themes. They’re a powerful feature of WordPress, giving you the flexibility to make customizations to any parent theme without losing them when the theme is updated. I use them to make edits […] View original post at …
How to Display Random Posts from Different Categories using WP_Query
Sometimes you want to mix things up a little when displaying posts on your site, maybe by making the list random instead of just showing the last five posts like every other site in town. The great news is that if you add a custom query to your page using the WP_Query class, you can […] View original post at …
How to Create a Landing Page Template for Your Theme
Landing pages are everywhere. If you’ve investigated SEO, or online marketing, or email list building, you’ll have been told to create a landing page for your website. But what exactly is a landing page, and how do you create it? In this post I’ll explain what makes a landing page different from a normal page […] View original post at …
8 Server Issues That Affect WordPress (and What to Do About Them)
We always have such a laser-trained focus on our WordPress site that sometimes it’s easy to forget that problems with it may not stem from conflicting plugins, a hacked login, or a bloated theme. Sometimes it’s the underlying web server that’s at fault. In my experience, web hosting companies aren’t always the easiest to work […] View original post at …