Is a ghoulish hacker haunting your site? Tell-tale signs include: Constantly getting hacked no matter how often you clean your site, and WordPress telling you there’s an extra admin account that isn’t actually listed. OK, so maybe your site isn’t actually haunted… but it sure feels like it when your site has a mind of its own! What’s more likely …
Sordid Confessions of WordPress Developers and Designers
We’ve reached out to developers and designers quite often here at WPMU DEV. Their insights have been invaluable. But today, our focus is a bit different. We approached devs with one question: What’s your funniest confession about being a developer or designer? Their answers are varied. Some relate to process and others deal with mistakes and missteps. Regardless, however, one thing …
39 Must-Have WordPress Development Tools
WordPress isn’t just for blogging. It’s a full-fledged CMS and undoubtedly a strong platform for developers. But the world of related trends and tools can be exhaustive when you just need a solid solution real fast. Given the fact that WordPress is used by millions of people, it’s only natural many use it to make a living, too. From plugin …
Essential Tools for Testing Cross-Browser Compatibility on Your WordPress Site
If you’re not testing how your site looks and performs on different browsers, you really have no idea whether visitors to your site are viewing it as you intended. Add to that, testing on multiple browsers on different operating systems and different devices is also a must. After all, Google Chrome on OS X isn’t quite like Google Chrome on …
WordPress Multisite Masterclass: Site and User Registration
One of the great features of WordPress Multisite is the way you can let users create their own sites, either for free or with payment. Allowing users to register on your network and create their own site is very straightforward – all you need to do is enable it in your network settings – but you can improve on the …
Migrating WordPress from a XAMPP Localhost to the Web
So you’ve finished developing a WordPress website locally using your XAMPP development environment and you’re ready to push your work online. There’s just one problem: you don’t know how to get your website from your computer to a web server without breaking it, and breaking your site would really defeat the whole point of local development. Fortunately, there are a …
How to Set Up a Staging Environment for WordPress with Cloner
Premium hosting plans usually make it pretty easy to create private staging sites. However, lots of WordPress sites are hosted on low-cost hosting plans that don’t include these features. So I’m going to show you how you can use Multisite and a couple of our plugins to create a staging site system that will run on nearly any hosting plan. …
The Ultimate Guide to Updating WordPress and Multisite
The WordPress core software is updated regularly and with each new release come new features and security fixes that are designed to ensure your site is as secure as possible and performing at its best. Automatically opting into these updates means they are applied to your site or network as soon as they’re released, which is especially important in terms …
Drive Traffic to Your WordPress Site with This Inbound Marketing Checklist
Why do you have a website? If you’re like most site owners, the answer is probably something like, “to be found.” I mean, why have a site if no one can find it and use it, right? Whether you are an aspiring author looking to get noticed by agents and publishers, a business owner who wants to get more clients …
Shared, VPS, Dedicated or Cloud Hosting? Which is Best for WordPress?
There are so many different types of hosting that it can be overwhelming to choose the right one for your WordPress site, but at the same time, it just means there are enough options so you can choose the perfect fit. Speaking personally, when it comes to WordPress, I reckon your own Linux server is usually the best bet. But …