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Community-powered websites encompass everything from Facebook to Twitter to Reddit. And if you’re thinking about setting up your own online community, WordPress is the perfect platform for creating and engaging with your own custom audience. The advantages of building your own community-powered website are numerous: increased traffic to your site, the “passive” creation of SEO content, and direct access to your …
Whether you want your users to log in from the front-end or backend of your websites, WordPress allows you to fully customize the experience for both. Occasionally, when building a WordPress website you might think that the built-in login page doesn’t exactly meet your needs. Sometimes, you might want the login form embedded into your site’s front-end. Other times, you …
If you’ve started building your own theme, or maybe even creating a child theme to customize another theme, then you’ll have learned all about template files and the theme template hierarchy. But what about the theme functions.php file? The functions file is where you put all of the functionality your theme needs that doesn’t relate just to one template, so it …
In recent weeks, we’ve rolled out the biggest changes to our member dashboard ever. Introducing The Hub, your mission control for monitoring the vital stats of all your WordPress websites, including uptime, performance, and security. Add as many sites as you want – including Multisite networks – and receive instant security alerts whenever a vulnerability is spotted on any of …
The WordPress REST API will solve lots of problems and have more uses than we’ve even begun to explore just yet. But it’s no magic bullet and there will be times when you’re better off not using it at all. There still isn’t a huge number of developers or agencies using the REST API for live sites, partly because the …
Creating a premium events site for your members, like Meetup.com, Ticketmaster or EventBrite, isn’t out of reach with WordPress – and is easily done when you pair our Events+ and Membership 2 Pro plugins. Integrating these plugins allows you to create a site – or network – where visitors can sign up to view event information and buy tickets. You …
If you’ve been building your own themes for a while, chances are you’ve been adding code to the functions.php file. Sometimes you might have wondered if you should be writing a plugin instead, but you weren’t sure how. In many cases, writing a plugin is better practice than adding code to your functions.php file. And creating a plugin is far …
When you spend so much time building and optimizing your site, ensuring it loads fast for your visitors is a top priority. CloudFlare is a popular choice for boosting site performance – we even use it here at WPMU DEV. CloudFlare is a Content Delivery Network (CDN) that sends traffic through its global network to automatically optimize the delivery of your site …
After installing an SSL certificate on your site to amp up your security, you may notice your images suddenly don’t display at all. Don’t panic – just read on for the fix. When you install an SSL certificate, like the free one from Let’s Encrypt we wrote about recently, your site’s address adjusts slightly and even a slight adjustment means some …
GoDaddy is somewhat of a true big daddy in the web hosting arena. The company was founded in 1997 and has since been publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange, has had Super Bowl ads, and has been the subject of many controversies. Due to its size, infamy and, in some cases, spotty service, GoDaddy has been the host …
