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Custom post types and taxonomies are what make WordPress a Content Management System (CMS), and not just a blogging platform. With them, you can add your own post types, which you can then display using targeted template files. You can also create custom taxonomies that let you use more than just categories and tags to classify your content. This is …
WordPress uses MySQL, an open source database management system, to store and retrieve all of your website’s information, from the content of your posts and pages to your comments, usernames and passwords. If you need to visualize it, think of your site’s database as a filing cabinet and MySQL as the company that made it. MySQL is a popular choice …
Running a WordPress website can feel like managing a magnet for malicious login attempts. Brute force attempts to log into WordPress are so common there’s a page in the Codex dedicated to the topic. There are many strategies for dealing with this problem, and the best strategy is to deploy multiple strategies. In this article, I’ll explain how I implement …
Businesses of all sizes—bloggers, SMBs, eCommerce companies, large enterprises, and more—understand the importance of having a website. Without it, a business is relegated to the more time – and labor – intensive (and not to mention outdated) method of increasing brand recognition and converting leads through cold calling and word-of-mouth. Plus, if your brand doesn’t have a website, you’re relying …
Ever wondered what the most popular free WordPress plugins are and why they’re so freaking popular? Knowing the answer could help you understand which ones are a must to install on your site (or even what kinds of plugins you should be building). The more plugins you include in your site, the more you weigh it down and run the …
WordPress has become synonymous with ease of use and flexibility. With an intuitive interface, plugins, themes, and other tools to help users build websites, WordPress has quickly become the content management system of choice. The subject of website customization is nothing new. Articles and guides are created all the time with the purpose of educating developers and others working in WordPress …
Plugins let you add or change how your sites looks or functions. And the best part? Just about any kind of functionality you can dream up for your site, you can turn into a plugin and make it happen. This is the third post in our WordPress Development for Intermediate Users series. This series follows on from our popular WordPress …
Don’t have access to your WordPress admin? Or can’t access the settings for a plugins? Don’t sweat it – you can still reset or delete and uninstall WordPress or your plugin manually. There are many situations where you may need to rewind and go with a manual uninstall, such as if you’re testing new features out on your install, want to start …
WordPress has come a long way since its humble beginnings in 2003. Its functionality and design has evolved from a very simple user interface to a more complex one, especially with regard to the dashboard. But is more complex necessarily better? If you’ve been using WordPress for a while, it’s likely you know the dashboard like the back of your …
WordPress has plenty of responsive themes to choose from; both free and premium. Many of them bear copy that states each of them is the best (and the last) WordPress theme you’ll ever need. But how do you know which of these themes truly stands up to its claims and which are just full of hot air? Going through the …
