Category: WordPress

If you search for any guide on the Internet on the “proper” way to include CSS in WordPress, you’ll get a lot of advice telling you to hook into the “wp_enqueue_scripts” function and attach your external CSS file from there. Heck, I myself have explained how to do this in an earlier tutorial! This advice […]

It’s always seemed a bit weird to me that WordPress doesn’t extend its taxonomy system to posts. While with posts, you can make use of the extensive category/tag infrastructure and manipulate them in a variety of ways, this same facility doesn’t apply to pages. As a result, we lose out on a lot of conveniences. […]

We’ve written a lot about server-side caching at NameHero. It allows your website to keep copies of generated pages and serve them to visitors without needing to recreate them over and over. Better speeds for your visitors and easier server loads on your end. What’s not to like? However, caching has traditionally been useful only […]

At this point, we already have quite a few backup tutorials on NameHero. We’ve talked about backing up the database, backing up the file system, as well as our policy of free nightly backups that we keep for one day. However, the above techniques are not WordPress specific. They backup databases and files that are […]

I’d earlier written about different ways to remove the footer of a WordPress post or page. The exact solution you need might work for one setup, and fail on another. However, since then, I’ve received questions from some people asking how to insert a footer into WordPress. Turns out the same method used to remove […]

One of the biggest benefits of the Gutenberg WordPress editor as I mentioned in my earlier post on one year after, is the “Custom HTML” block that allows you to insert arbitrary HTML, JavaScript and CSS code into a WordPress post. I’d previously talked about using it for JSON structured data, but you can also […]

Caching is an important part of any website’s performance strategy. Especially for systems like WordPress, which heavily rely on dynamic, database-powered pages. It dramatically reduces the system resources required to serve a page, leading to faster load times for end-users, and makes everyone happy. However, not all caches are built equally. There are essentially two […]

It’s been almost exactly one year since Automatic released Gutenberg – the new text editor on WordPress, and I’ve been using it almost continuously since then. When it first came out, I found it lacking in many respects and wrote a blog post on how annoyed I was. Since then however, a lot of things […]

A little over a month ago on the 31st of October, Google released “Site Kit” for WordPress. It blends together all of Google’s tools like Analytics, Search Console, and PageSpeed insights, and presents their results together in the WordPress report screen. It’s a neat idea, and I can see where they’re going with it. WordPress […]

Yesterday on the 12th of November 2019, Automattic released the latest version of WordPress – v5.3. It’s the last major release for this year and brings a bunch of improvements to the Gutenberg editor, behind the scenes features for developers, and readies WordPress for the upcoming release of PHP 7.4. Here’s the full list of […]