I don’t know about you but if I want to do a job right I feel much more comfortable with a checklist to refer to. Otherwise you’re just leaving it up to the reliability of your focus and memory in any given moment. Mental checklists…
One of the greatest benefits of using WordPress is the huge range of different themes. A themes includes all the code & functions which determine the appearance of your website…
I have put together a WordPress screencast video on adding a featured thumbnail in WordPress. A thumbnail is usually a small image that represents something like a larger image, or even a small image related to an article…
Every time you create a new blog post, you can assign it to a category. Categories are like the index in a book and help your readers find the specific content they are looking for…
With WordPress becoming more and more popular there is a massive amount of code being generated by users, agencies and marketplaces. I’ve been working with WordPress for a long time and it amazes me how many developers…
There are plenty of posts out there with tips for WordPress newbies, which is pretty damned handy, it has to be said. After all, we were all beginners once. When you first fire it up, WordPress can be pretty overwhelming — such a depth of functionality…
It is all too easy to take WordPress for granted. After all — you have to pay for most good things in life. The chair you’re sitting in, the operating system your computer is running on, many of the apps you use, and so on. WordPress is powerful enough…
Often in our articles you will see a reference like insert image URL. For example in our adding new default avatars article, we mentioned just add the name and image URL. One of our users, asked how to get the URL of images you upload…
If you’ve been using WordPress for a while, you’ve probably made some mistakes. Maybe you haven’t made many mistakes however you may look back at when you first started and know you could have done things better. Personally, i know i could have done…
I’m sure you use loads of various keyboard shortcuts when working with your operating system, but is your behavior similar in WordPress? Of course, I’m not talking about Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V, and other basic stuff. I’m talking about WordPress specific…
By default, WordPress website display listing of recent posts on the homepage. For different look for specific type of websites, you can also display static content on the homepage instead of recent posts listing. This can be easily done by setting specific (static) page as homepage…
Tags are one of the most common terms associated with blogging nowadays. In fact, tags have found their way outside blogging and are now an integral part of content sharing all across the internet — you tag your photos on Facebook, sort tweets on the basis of hash-tags…
When it comes to professional WordPress development, it’s imperative that developers understand both actions and filters – that is, it’s important to understand WordPress hooks. Simply put, hooks are what give us the ability to customize, extend, and enhance WordPress through…
WordPress truly is a great tool, and no wonder that many PHP/web developers have chosen to use it as the base of their work. However, WordPress won’t do the whole work by itself and there’s always a significant amount of stuff that needs to be handled manually (when working…
There are a couple ways to install a theme in WordPress. I have put together a video screencast on how to install a theme in the WordPress administration area. This is just one of a few ways to install, but also the easiest way since it really is a one-click install method that takes mere…
This post is part of a series on building better WordPress blogs. You can find links to all posts in the series at the bottom of this page. Back in the distant past (otherwise known as the turn of the century), blogging was something of a niche hobby, typified by “personal bloggers”. Online journals…
In a previous tutorial you would of learnt how you can create custom page templates to add additional functionality to your theme. Some of the example pages mentioned were: Contact Us page, with validation…
WordPress 3.5 is officially on its way. In a blog post published late last week on WordPress.org, the official release date of 5th December was confirmed, in keeping with WordPress’ bi-annual new release cycle. This new version offers up an ambitious re-modeling of an existing major…
A WordPress theme is a collection of template files which lets you change the user interface, design, look, and feel of the site. A WordPress theme can either just have some bare minimum design changes implemented or might even have some advanced…
There are many cases when you may want to hide full WordPress website from search engines. For example: while developing website online, you surely do not want “under construction” site getting indexed by search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing. Also, you may have setup new test WordPress…