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Are you a WordPress developer? Or wanna be one? Well, according to Matt Mullenweg himself you should “Learn JavaScript, deeply” and hey, why not do that from WordPress expert (and Smashing Magazine WordPress editor) Daniel Pataki, here at WPMU DEV, for free? For Free? Yep, if you are a current member you don’t have to pay a penny – just hop over and …
There are 40 million brute force attacks on websites every day, so it’s highly likely your site will succumb to an attack. One relatively easy way to protect your site is to hide your login page from hackers. Making it harder for hackers to find the location of your login page file means there’s less chance they can attempt …
Thanks to the open source nature of WordPress, anyone – including hackers – can look up the typical file structure of a WordPress website and know exactly where to start an attack. Fortunately, rearranging your core WordPress file structure is one method you can employ from your security arsenal to combat hacks and bolster your site’s defenses. So in this …
Everyone makes mistakes from time to time. It happens. But when the mistake occurs within a website that you put a lot of time and effort into building, it can be frustrating to go back and re-do your work, no matter how minor the issue. As a WordPress developer, you know the platform inside and out. You’re also familiar with …
jQuery is a popular open source JavaScript library that enables you to make websites interactive and create animations. It was designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML and is widely used, with installation on 65% of the top 10 million highest-trafficked sites on the web. This is the second post in our four-part series focusing on JavaScript for WordPress …
“Am I what?!” I hear you say. Okay, okay, I admit, the headline looks very much like BuzzFeed clickbait, but I’m really serious about this one! In case you’re not aware of this plague, WordPress porn is a real thing. Or, let’s call it by its slightly more recognizable name… I’m talking about information overload. And specifically, information overload in …
Smush is absolutely established as the best auto image compression available for WordPress by some distance – over 5 billion images smushed and 1,624 five-star reviews certainly do not lie… But we’ve just taken Smush to a whole new level. Say hello to automated PNG to JPG transformation for your files that need it. Magic. So let me run that past you again. …
What do broken external links, organic search engine traffic to outdated content, and deleted pages that send visitors to a 404 dead-end all have in common? Just another day at the office, right? Hopefully not. These sort of problems don’t have to stick around in the WordPress world because what they have in common is that they can all be …
Sliders and carousels were a really hot design trend a few years ago. You would’ve been hard-pressed to find a website that didn’t have some sort of rotating element on the homepage – especially above the fold. But then something changed. Designers and developers started to abandon sliders for static imagery. As the interest in minimalistic designs and longer scrolling …
Are you thinking about using the REST API for your WordPress site? Maybe you’ve been reading all about it, are intrigued but are put off by some of the disadvantages of working with JavaScript that you may have heard about. When it comes to getting to grips with JavaScript and the REST API, it’s not unusual to be a bit …
