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Twenty Seventeen is the most versatile default theme WordPress has ever seen. However, the options built into the theme leave a few things to be desired. In this post, I’ll show you five hacks you can use to make Twenty Seventeen uniquely your own. We’ll start with the basics and move on to more challenging […] View original post at …
So you’ve wrapped up a WordPress website overhaul and you’re ready to deploy. There’s only one problem. How do you deploy your development site without losing all of the updates and new content added to the production site while you were developing? What you need is some way to compare your development database to the […] View original post at …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Have you ever tried to change the standard order of posts on your site’s blog page? By default, posts are ordered based on the date that each post is published, and there’s no built-in way to change the order in which posts appear. If you do want to change the post order, you have three options: change the post publish …
One of the best things about WordPress is how easy it is to make sweeping changes to a website in just a few minutes. But with no easy way to revert a website to a previous state, you can lose a lot of work very quickly if you aren’t careful. VersionPress brings the power of Git to WordPress so you …
If you’re not testing how your site looks and performs on different browsers, you really have no idea whether visitors to your site are viewing it as you intended. Add to that, testing on multiple browsers on different operating systems and different devices is also a must. After all, Google Chrome on OS X isn’t quite like Google Chrome on …
There are so many different types of hosting that it can be overwhelming to choose the right one for your WordPress site, but at the same time, it just means there are enough options so you can choose the perfect fit. Speaking personally, when it comes to WordPress, I reckon your own Linux server is usually the best bet. But …
XAMPP is a popular, free, open-source web server you can install on your computer and use to power local WordPress installations. This makes XAMPP a great option for developers who want to develop sites and test plugins and themes locally before pushing those changes to a live website. Using a local development environment is a good idea in many different …
