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 …
WordPress Development for Intermediate Users: Building Plugins
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 …
How to Manually Delete or Reset WordPress and Multisite
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 …
8 Quick Ways to Improve the UX of the WordPress Dashboard
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 …
60 Free Responsive and Ridiculously Good-Looking WordPress Themes for 2016
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 …
What’s the Deal with Cookie Consent Notices?
Surely you’ve seen them many times. They show up as banners at the top or bottom of webpages or as distracting popups. Virtually every website based in the EU is supposed to display them. What am I referring to? Cookie consent notices. Have you ever wondered why some sites display a cookie consent notice? Do you know whether or not your …
WordPress and HTTP2: All Your Questions Answered
How many times have you come across an article which suggests ways to make your WordPress website faster? You’re probably sick and tired of them. The sorry thing is most of them recycle the same old tricks over and over again. I’ve got news for you: The bad news is that this is another article on how to make your WordPress website …
WordPress Development for Intermediate Users: Making Your Themes Customizer-Ready
It used to be that if you wanted to give users of your themes a way to customize aspects of their site or the theme, you’d create a theme options page. But now the best way (and the expected method for themes submitted to the theme directory) is to make use of the Customizer. This is the second post in …
New Academy Courses: Announcing the BEST Multisite Course on the Web
You know how we’re the Multisite experts here at WPMU DEV? Well, we want to upload everything we know about Multisite directly into your brain, Matrix-style. Enrollments are now open for three new courses in The Academy: WordPress Multisite Masterclass, WordPress Development for Intermediate Users, and (by popular demand) our CEO James Farmer’s hugely successful Dream Small, Market Big & …
23 Best CRM Tools for WordPress to Boost Your Business
John Russell, the President of Harley Davidson, once said, “The more you engage with customers the clearer things become and the easier it is to determine what you should be doing.” But when you have random sheets of paper, Excel spreadsheets, and Rolodexes of customer info to contend with, this wasn’t always a realistic goal for some businesses. Luckily these days, …