It’s finally heeeeeeere! You know how you said you wanted a way to simply create an Upfront theme for WordPress from scratch, export it to another site or even sell it? Well, we’ve just gone and made that for you 🙂 Say hello to Upfront Builder! Upfront + Builder = stunning WordPress themes! And we’ve taken our time to make …
A to Z of WordPress Terminology for Beginners to Advanced
A lot of posts on this blog attempt to explain WordPress concepts and terminology, or at least those that are relevant to the post. And the WordPress Codex does a great job of explaining the concepts used by WordPress. But following lots of questions I’ve seen in comments on posts asking for definitions and explanations, I thought it would be useful to create …
How to Arrange WordPress Posts in Any Order
Have you ever tried to change the standard order of posts on your site’s blog page? By default, posts are ordered based on the date that each post is published, and there’s no built-in way to change the order in which posts appear. If you do want to change the post order, you have three options: change the post publish …
Getting the Most out WordPress Tags for Improved SEO and Readability
Vincent Van Gogh once said, “Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” If I didn’t know any better, I’d think he were talking about WordPress tags. In all seriousness though, Van Gogh had a point. Much like his own pointillist style of painting – one which utilized small dots of color …
Testing WordPress Website Backups to Avoid Future Disasters
If you’ve used WordPress for a while, you know keeping regular backups can save you from losing your website (you know, the site you’ve put all that time and effort – literally hours – into building). But have you tested your WordPress backups to see if they actually work? Sometimes, backups could be missing files or become corrupted. It may …
How to Convert Any HTML5 Template Into an Awesome WordPress Theme
What do you do when you can’t find the perfect WordPress theme? In all likelihood, you probably turn to a theme framework. However, every once in a while, you probably have this thought flit across your mind: “I should just code an HTML5 template and convert it into a WordPress theme.” But that’s just a pipe dream right? Let’s be …
Introducing WPMU DEV Cloud Backups (Members Get 10GB for Free!)
Hey, we just took your WPMU DEV membership to the next level by giving you 10GB unlimited site managed cloud backups. Oh, and guess what? It’s part of your regular WPMU DEV membership so is gonna cost you zero dollars and zero cents 🙂 How does it all work? Well, first up you can manage all of your backups along …
Advanced WordPress Development: Writing Object-Oriented Plugins
There are a lot of benefits to learning object-oriented programming if you’re a WordPress developer. OOP code can help organize your code and make it reusable. It’s more extensible, easier to maintain, and encourages a culture of using design patterns. This is the second post in our six-part series focusing on WordPress for advanced developers. This series follows on from our …
How to Add Schema.org Markup to WordPress for Better SEO
One of the challenges in getting people to visit your WordPress website is ensuring your content can be crawled by search engine spiders. And an even bigger challenge is making sure search engines can understand the relevance of that content in context. What do I mean by the “relevance of content in context?” Well, imagine you have the address of …
How to Move a Single WordPress Site into a Multisite Network
One of the most frequent questions I’ve been asked by students completing the WordPress Multisite course in The Academy is this: how do you move an existing WordPress site into a Multisite network? This post is designed to answer that question and take you through the steps you need to follow to move a site into a network. I’ll look …