You may have caught the recent announcement that our Hummingbird performance plugin has been integrated with CloudFlare. But given that CloudFlare works on a domain level, what does this mean if you’re running a Multisite network? The good news is that with one CloudFlare account you can cover multiple domains. Unlike many services, you don’t need a separate account for each …
Zerif Lite Suspended from WordPress Theme Directory, 300K Users Left Without Updates
Zerif Lite, one of the most popular themes on WordPress.org, has been suspended by the Theme Review Team for several violations of the Presentation vs. Functionality guideline. As a result, more than 300,000 users (including those on child themes of Zerif Lite) can no longer receive maintenance and security updates to the theme. Justin Tadlock, an admin on the Theme …
Advanced WordPress Development: Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming
Want to take your WordPress game to a whole new level of coding mastery? Are you ready to really push your PHP skills and add even greater complexity and advanced functionality to your plugins and themes? Welcome to our latest series, WordPress Development for Advanced Users. This series follows on from our popular WordPress Development for Intermediate Users, which introduced you …
GitHub Adds Code Review and Project Management Tools
GitHub’s second annual Universe conference kicked off in San Francisco today with 1500 attendees. Co-founder and CEO Chris Wanstrath announced a collection of new and and upcoming features for the platform, including code reviews, project management tools, profile updates, additional security features, and a community forum. October marks nine years since the first commit on GitHub. Over the past few …
The Ultimate Guide to Choosing a WordPress Theme Framework (Plus In-Depth Reviews)
Since I last reviewed WordPress frameworks two years ago, the nature of frameworks has evolved. My definition of a framework back then was a parent theme with an API and/or extensive customization options for non-coders. But things have changed. Not all frameworks are even themes now, let alone parent themes. Some of the frameworks reviewed here take the form of plugins, …
Headway Themes Confirms Financial Difficulties, Issues Apology to Customers
Headway Themes publicly apologized to its customers on the company’s blog this evening for a lack of communication, the decline in support, and the extensive issues with the most recent 4.0 release. To say the past couple of months have been tough for you, in particular, and us, is an understatement. We’re writing today to communicate with you as best …
Introducing Gillie, Our Hip New Upfront Theme – and That’s Not Even the Best Part!
Don’t panic people, that noise you hear is the sound of awesomeness dropping. Our hip new Upfront starter theme Gillie is live… And that’s not even the best part. You may have noticed our Upfront theme framework got a huge upgrade this week, and with it comes Gillie, a welcoming new design that balances contemporary and vintage. It’s like peeking into a fashion magazine layout …
San José, Costa Rica to Host Its First WordCamp November 5-6
WordPress enthusiasts in San José, Costa Rica are getting ready to host the city’s first WordCamp November 5-6. Roberto Remedios is one of 10 organizers working with a Rocio Valdivia, the team’s mentor from WordCamp Central. He said that WordCamp Miami inspired him to want to host an event in Costa Rica. “Back in 2014, Rommel Castro and I attended …
What Are Tooltips Good For Anyway? 6 Simple Options for WordPress
When we recently talked about tips for decluttering your website, we were mostly just focused on hiding away secondary pieces of content that were still worthy of inclusion on the site, but that didn’t quite deserve a spot front and center. Because your visitors’ experience always needs to be top-of-mind when developing a website, it’s really important for you to …
Fixing the “Cannot Modify Header” Error in WordPress
Here’s a frustrating yet common WordPress error that can appear out of the blue, bringing down your site in one fell swoop: “Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at…” What’s worse is that this error continues, listing paths to important files on your server which is a potential security risk. But not to worry! …









