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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 …
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 & …
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, …
Spring cleaning. I picture perspiring ladies in full-skirted dresses and pearls, beating a rug thrown over a clothesline with clouds of dust puffing into the sky. But spring cleaning is vital for your WordPress site. You use the concept all the time, but you’re essentially doing a hit and run version, eager to complete the few tasks necessary to move …
So you’ve built a beautiful WordPress website that fits your client’s needs, wants, and requirements to a t. There’s just one hurdle left: Your client doesn’t want the site going live until they’ve signed off on the finished product. Presenting a finished site–or, at least, a supposedly finished site–is one scenario in which you may need to come up with …
Did you know you can install and run a WordPress site from a USB flash drive? Well, you can, and this little-known fact is more than just a neat trick. A portable WordPress installation can actually be quite useful. Why in the world would you ever need to run WordPress from a flash drive? Shouldn’t this be filed away under …
Does the thought of your website keep you up at night? Do all the “what ifs” have you worrying about the design, the functionality, the calls to action, the wording and, ultimately, your conversions?? You could have your designer/developer make changes based on what you think might help with improving the number of site visitors, the time they spend on …
A successful web design project involves plenty of work before you type a line of code. Before you can start designing or building a site, you need to know what it needs to achieve, who the stakeholders are, and what you need to do to make it a success. Today, I want to encourage you to take some time to get ready before you …
Interested in taking your WordPress game to a whole new level? Want to further develop your PHP skills and add more complex and exciting functionality to your themes and plugins? Welcome to our latest series, WordPress Development for Intermediate users. This series follows on from our popular WordPress Development for Beginners tutorials, which introduced you to the fundamentals of developing …
Say hello to our brand new blog design! Over the past few weeks, we’ve been cooking up this new look to help make reading articles on our blog a more enjoyable experience. In other words, we want you to keep coming back for more (and share our articles, too!). Since our very first post went live back in 2008, we’ve published …
