If you want to write articles about trending topics, then trying to keep up-to-date with everything happening in your niche can be a full-time job in itself. Fortunately, there are tools and techniques available that can help make this process easier. Content about trending topics is beneficial because you know that what you’re writing about is […] View original post at …
How to Hide Media Attachment Pages in WordPress
The WordPress core makes it’s easy to password protect posts and pages — a handy feature if you want to easily limit access to certain content. The only problem is that any images or videos you display on those pages can still be accessed by going straight to the media attachment pages. This can be […] View original post at …
Repairing Corrupted, Broken or Missing Files and Databases in WordPress
Have you found that your WordPress site’s on the fritz and all you can say is “I didn’t do anything, I swear!?” Yet, you see errors that say your files or database are broken, missing or corrupted. Anything from posts and categories sporadically disappearing and reappearing to error messages like: “Warning: require_once(path/to/file.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open […] View original post at …
5 Excellent Ways to Hack the Twenty Seventeen WordPress Theme
Twenty Seventeen is the most versatile default theme WordPress has ever seen. However, the options built into the theme leave a few things to be desired. In this post, I’ll show you five hacks you can use to make Twenty Seventeen uniquely your own. We’ll start with the basics and move on to more challenging […] View original post at …
A Guide to Building WordPress on Docker for Windows, Linux and OS X
“Containerization” is a relatively new buzzword in big-company enterprise software circles. Just put a batch of environments in the cloud, or on a server, that just have important applications and little else. The name you hear most often when containers come up is Docker, an open source project that has become a monster. You don’t […] View original post at …
How to Use WordPress Multisite for Different Divisions in a Company Website
WordPress Multisite has many uses. You can use it to create a profitable network of sites which people create themselves, to manage your own sites, to host sites for clients and much more. But something that clients often ask me about is using it to power a network of sites for a company that has separate divisions with […] View original post at …
Why You Need to Consider to Content-First Design for WordPress
Having a powerful website and a fantastic UI is important—not only for your visitors’ experience, but also for SEO purposes. That being said, without the right content in place, all that well-planned and laid-out design and development work will go to waste. You want to tell a story through the website you’ve built, right? But how […] View original post at …
Building an Awesome Demo for Your WordPress Theme or Plugin
As another year draws to a close, it’s time to start thinking about business goals for 2017. Do you know what the coming year has in store for your WordPress business? A better question to ask may be: do you have a plan in place to ensure your WordPress business grows and thrives in the […] View original post at …
How to Create and Customize Error Pages for WordPress
I’m a WordPress nerd and as a WordPress nerd, I hate seeing error pages on my site. It means I broke something, but at least I can fix it – visitors can’t and neither can yours, and that’s way worse than any error. That’s why creating your own custom error pages, including 404 pages, can help […] View original post at …
The Power Users Guide to WordPress Navigation Menus
The humble navigation menu. It’s an important part of your WordPress site that lets your visitors find their way around and helps to structure your content. Every theme will have a slot for it somewhere at the top of each page. But are navigation menus just for your site header? The truth is that they can do much […] View original post at …