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One of Multisite’s useful features is the way it lets you change the experience users get when they first register a site on your network. You can edit their welcome email and change the default content that’s created for their site. You do this by configuring your network settings in Settings > Network Settings. But there are two emails that are …
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 …
When the original U.S. Copyright Act was established in 1790, it was the government’s goal to protect authors’ rights to their work. Fast forward to the present day, and it’s no longer just writers, composers, and artists whose work needs protecting: so too does the work found on websites. I could probably write whole chapters on this topic of intellectual …
If you make a living from your WordPress website(s), then you need to know what your visitors want. It’s natural to assume that you already know exactly what your visitors want. You got them to show up in the first place, right! Except, maybe you don’t… Assuming that you know what your visitors want is a sure-fire way to lose …
In a recent post, I demonstrated the easy way to move a WordPress site into a Multisite network, using plugins. For many sites, this method works perfectly fine. But what if your site’s settings are a bit more complex? If you move your site using plugins, you’ll be able to move two things: your content (posts, pages, custom post types, …
When was the last time you checked your WordPress website’s analytics? How about your site’s conversion rate? If the two pictures don’t quite sync up (e.g. you’re getting a lot of visitors, but sales are in a slump), then it’s time to figure out what’s going on with your website. Let me ask you a few questions: What was your …
What impression do you get from blogs that have no images or low quality, cheesy stock photos? Perhaps you feel the blog is unprofessional or it gives you the feeling that the content is possibly of a lower quality? If your blog has poor imagery, then visitors to your blog might have the same first impressions of your site. Fortunately, …
We’ve just added a new feature in The Hub, our member dashboard, which we think you are going to like: the ability to update all of your plugins and themes from the one easy dashboard, and not just WPMU DEV ones! So now, in order to manage updates (or, in fact, update every single plugin and theme on every single one of your …
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 …
