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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 …
Pricing is tricky, to say the least. And no doubt you’ve had a similar conversation to this one I had recently with a massively popular (and profitable) blog I wanted to write for: Client: “I’m sorry to break this to you — but you’re nowhere near the $XX rate.” Me: “Thanks very much for your feedback. Much appreciated 🙂 Cheers” …
WordPress 4.7 is slated to arrive in early December 2016. While a lot of new features will roll out with the latest version of WordPress — the new Twenty Seventeen default theme, thumbnail previews for PDF uploads, and more — it’s the custom CSS editor added to the WordPress Customizer that caught my eye. The question this new feature raises …
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 …
Earlier this year, Knock Knock Whois There LLC, an Automattic subsidiary in partnership with Primer Nivel, won an auction for around $19 million dollars to offer top-level .blog domains. On August 18th, an email was sent to users who signed up to Dotblog.WordPress.com notifying them that they could apply and secure a .blog domain name before November 21st. Applying For …
Let’s face it. WordPress development is not for the faint of heart. Wages aren’t as strong as they are for other types of developers, competition is fierce, and you’re expected to work miracles in minutes — after all, it’s just a simple WordPress website, right? One way to address this conundrum is to simplify your development process by pre-making routine …
The second Global WordPress Translation Day was held November 12 and the stats released this week show the event was an even greater success than the first one. In April, WP Translation Day connected 448 participants through both online and in-person translation events. The second event brought 780 translators together, a 74% increase in participation. Attendance at the local events …
Before premium WordPress themes were a thing, we used to code everything from scratch. When I first started my career in web development and web design, every piece of HTML, every line of CSS, every piece of JavaScript, was all done by hand. Yeah, we had some tools to help us out, but they just automated a few things here …
photo credit: Viv Lynch Westward – (license) WordCamp US attendees are counting down the days until the event kicks off in Philadelphia in two weeks but preparations for 2017 and 2018 are already underway. Yesterday Matt Mullenweg announced that Nashville has won the bid to host WordCamp US for the next two years. According to Randy Hicks, one of the …
It sure has been busy around here. Over the past couple weeks, we’ve made some huge announcements: WPMU DEV Hosting, WP Checkup, new Hustle integrations and Upfront compatibility with WooCommerce. And while all that was going on, we quietly launched a new Introduction to Upfront course in The Academy. Yes, now you can learn how to use our Upfront theme …
