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The WordPress loop is a very powerful piece of code. You use it to access the database, find content based on given criteria, and then output that content in whatever way you need to. This is the fifth post in our WordPress Development for Intermediate Users series. This series follows on from our popular WordPress Development for Beginners tutorials, which …
Jetpack 4.1 was released today with performance improvements that make calls to the database more efficient, reducing what Jetpack does on each page load. Slideshows should load faster now that the Carousel module has been tweaked to no longer load full-size images in the previous and next previews. Using Photon in dev mode has also been improved by cutting out …
Today we are excited to announce the release of Upfront 1.3, which we’re dubbing “Upfront for Publishers.” This version of our WordPress theme platform includes a huge update to the post and page writing experience. Want to display your featured images above the titles of your posts? Easy. Or show the publication date at the bottom of posts instead of …
photo credit: Bulgarian Flag – (license) The Bulgarian government has just passed an amendment to its Electronic Governance Act that mandates all custom software created for the government must be open source. The amendment was voted on in the Bulgarian parliament and put into effect July 1, 2016. According to Bozhidar Bozhanov, a 27-year-old software engineer and advisor to the …
You’re not a beginner anymore. You don’t need to watch another tutorial on how to install WordPress, set up a theme, or find and install plugins. But, that doesn’t mean that you know everything. Maybe you’ve built a simple theme or plugin, but not the sort of thing you’d consider submitting to WordPress.org. Or maybe you’re pretty good with HTML …
You know Git, right? It’s one of the most popular version control systems in use today. Plus, it’s everywhere: Pre-installed by many hosting providers, used as the system that operates behind GitHub and Bitbucket, and now even built into easy-to-use WordPress plugins. There’s been a lot of noise about Git in the WordPress community lately thanks to the development of …
photo credit: Jeffrey Betts During Matt Mullenweg’s Q&A session at WordCamp Europe, an unidentified Google employee asked about making WordPress sites more mobile-friendly: I work at Google with search and we think the web and mobile are important, but one thing that we noticed is that 28% of the new sites that choose WordPress and come online (that we’ve discovered) …
Do you know who is visiting your website? And, more importantly, does the demographic of your visitors even matter? For some businesses and bloggers, that answer is a resounding: YES. If you’re reading this, you probably have (or need to implement) an age requirement restriction for visitors to your site. There are a variety of reasons for needing to restrict …
The WordPress development team has released WordPress 4.6 beta 1. This release includes a new process for installing, updating, and deleting plugins and themes, native fonts in the WordPress backend, and improvements to the post editor. It also contains a number of changes that developers should be aware of. WordPress 4.6 Beta 1 is still in development and should not be used in …
There sure is a lot you need to remember when working with WordPress theme files. From the names of basic template files to functions and how the WordPress Loop works, it’s next to impossible to remember every PHP tag or even how to define a new theme. About 550 students enrolled in our Academy course, WordPress Development for Beginners, are …
