WordPress is an intuitive enough platform. Once you’ve got the hang of where to find the Add New button and familiarized yourself with the page and post edit screens, you can create and edit content in little to no time. Now, think about how long it takes you to navigate to one of your posts or […] View original post at …
Styling Text on Your Website: What the Research Says
I was recently helping a friend build a site for his new podcast when he asked, “How do you make these all caps go away?” I’ve spent enough time in WordPress and with premium themes to know where to go to alter typography—and this quickly became one of those times where the theme did not […] View original post at …
Adding a Custom Widget to Any Page, Post or Template in WordPress
Widgets make WordPress really flexible. By adding widget areas to your themes, you let users insert their own custom content without having to write a line of code. They’re most common in sidebars and footers, where they’re often used to hold widgets such as the search widget, latest posts widget, or maybe a custom menu. […] View original post at …
How to Code an Automatic Section Menus Widget in WordPress
If you’re a regular user of large e-commerce or news sites, you’ll have noticed that they have section menus, with links to all of the pages in the section that you’re currently in. Adding one of these to your site helps users find related content and will reduce your bounce rate. But setting up a […] View original post at …
Why It’s Important to Get WordPress Featured Images Right (Plus Tools & Tips)
“Use a picture. It’s worth a thousand words.” is the first reported instance of the English language idiom that most of us know as “A picture is worth a thousand words”. In other words, why waste your breath (or fingers) when you could use a single picture to tell your story? A beautiful example of […] View original post at …
How the Microthemer CSS Editor Plugin Could Change Your Development
It’s always fun to experiment with CSS and website design. But manually fidgeting with colors, buttons, and other thingamabobs can get very old very fast if you want to implement or test something quickly. And that’s why plugins like Microthemer exist. Microthemer is a visual CSS editor plugin that allows you to see any changes […] View original post at …
How to Add Music and Embed Audio Playlists in WordPress
Let me take you back about 10 years ago. You suddenly get a hankering to go out to eat, but aren’t sure where you want to go. Rather than drive downtown without a plan, you hop on the internet to check out your options. You stumble across a website with cheesy background music meant to […] View original post at …
7 CSS Image Filter Plugins for Instagram-ifying WordPress
If you spend as much time on social media as I do, then you know that people have a tendency to overuse image filters. I guess applying a classy black-and-white filter to a wedding photo could be a nice touch, but not when it’s a picture of a screaming child dancing with the groom. I’d […] View original post at …
How to Get Around Ad Blockers (Without Annoying Your WordPress Visitors)
You want to monetize your WordPress website, but guess what? Consumers aren’t too keen to play along anymore. You tell yourself that won’t be the case on your website or that your visitors are different. But the statistics don’t lie. The Wall Street Journal reported that 26% of online users in the U.S. have ad-blocking […] View original post at …
WordPress 101: The Ultimate Beginners Guide to Setting Up a Website
So, you want to build a website. Awesome! Now you just need to work out how to actually get started. Luckily, you’ve come to the right place. If you’ve never built a website before, you’re probably feeling pretty overwhelmed. You’ve no doubt heard about WordPress and you’re interested in finding out more, but you don’t […] View original post at …