With the right combination of plugins and events, the WordPress admin area can quickly become a confusing mess of notices. WordPress’ notification system is often abused and overused by plugin authors who want to inject upsells and announcements into the admin. These can stack up like a pile of junk mail vying for users’ attention when they are trying to …
Custom Queries in WordPress: Creating a Button That Runs a Query
One of the things I love about WordPress is the way you can use the WP_Query class to create your own custom query. This can query anything you want for the database – and I mean anything. Posts, custom posts, taxonomies, authors, custom fields, user login status: you name it, you can include it in […]
How to Easily Duplicate a WordPress Post or Page
There are lots of reasons why you might want to duplicate a WordPress post or page. One reason is that it allows you to work on content without affecting the original version. Another reason is providing an easy way for clients to look at content and make changes before it goes live. Whatever your goal, […]
Does Your WordPress Site Need a Terms of Service?
One of my favorite parts of writing about WordPress is that I get to talk about exciting topics related to web design and development. But let’s face it: the work we do with WordPress isn’t always that glamorous. On occasion, we have to deal with the seemingly insignificant parts of websites, too. The perfect example […]
Dmitry Mayorov Discusses the Challenges of Organizing WordCamp Moscow and the Future of WordPress Themes
While at WordCamp Europe I had the opportunity to meet Russian designer and developer Dmitry Mayorov, whose themes I had noticed earlier in the year in the WordPress Theme Directory. Mayorov’s design style is reminiscent of other niche theme developers like Anders Norén and Mike McAlister. He launched his own commercial themes business on ThemePatio.com two years ago and his …
Breadcrumbs in WordPress Design: A Recipe for Improved Navigation
Have you ever hopped online with the goal of looking for something specific—like a new bathing suit or blender—only to find yourself an hour later wondering how the heck you ended up watching watermelon carving videos? Yeah, I’ve never done that either. Regardless of how often this happens to you, you know that jarring feeling […]
Customize Snapshots 0.6.0 Adds the Ability to Name and Merge Changesets
photo credit: Freestocks.org Contributors to the Customize Snapshots feature plugin are steadily building a UI for managing Customizer changesets using the changesets infrastructure added in WordPress 4.7. Version 0.6.0 of the plugin was released this month with an expanded interface for managing the complexities of multi-user editing in the Customizer. The previous version of Customize Snapshots already supported scheduling but …
5 Cool Examples of Microinteractions for a Better WordPress UX
They say the devil is in the details, but that is not true when it comes to user experience. A good microinteraction should facilitate or embellish an otherwise tedious task in a very subtle way—a bad microinteraction can ruin your experience with a website or product. Even though they’re “micro,” it doesn’t mean that microinteractions […]
.blog Passes 100,000 Registrations, 66.5% of Purchased Domains are in Use
The .blog domain extension, managed by Automattic subsidiary Knock Knock WHOIS There (KKWT), opened registration to the public in November 2016 and has just passed the 100,000 registration milestone. The extension is averaging 300 new .blog domains registered per day and is quickly gaining popularity among new generic TLDs. According to the most recent stats available at nTLDStats, .blog registrations …
6 Plugins for Accepting Bitcoin on Your WordPress Site
Are you planning to accept payments on your WordPress site? Then you’ve probably already considered the usual eCommerce payment gateway suspects. With 79% of Americans shopping online, it makes sense to turn to the most popular—and trusted—forms of payment to support your site’s conversion process. But what about cryptocurrency? Currently, only about 1.5% of Americans […]





