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On the 6th of November, Automattic released a new version of Jetpack with an exciting new feature – “Site Acceleration”. I generally hold off for a week or so before installing a new plugin update, just to wait for any potential bugs to be worked out. But once I had it installed, I got a […]
jQuery is a staple feature of almost all websites on the web. If a site has Javascript, it probably has jQuery. Unfortunately, this success has brought some problems with it, as explained below. While there’s no easy solution, one step towards mitigating it is to load jQuery from a CDN. There are lots of tutorials […]
If you’ve followed our blog, you may have noticed a couple different tutorials on how to setup a WordPress staging environment: How To Setup A WordPress Staging Site How To Clone Your WordPress Website With 1 Click While both of these options work well, there is still a bit of manual work needed to push […]
WordPress’s taxonomy can be pretty confusing. First, we have the default separation between “posts” and “pages”. Then we have categories and tags. In addition, we can have custom post types which opens the door to an endless number of variations. Figuring out the interactions between the taxonomies can be tricky. For example, by default, “pages” […]
For a content platform built around articles and posts, WordPress does a pretty lousy job when it comes to displaying tables. Granted, they’re not usually part of standard articles and posts, but they add so much more to content, that there really should be a dedicated widget for them in the default editor. Perhaps it’s […]
Sometimes you need to display a list of pages in a WordPress post. Perhaps you’re designing a 404 landing page and want to show the user all the pages on your site so they can navigate wherever they want. Or maybe you’re creating a knowledgebase of your site and want to create a user-friendly “sitemap” […]
Often while browsing, we see a site or a design that make us go “Wow, I want that on MY site”! In my earlier tutorial on how to change the font color in WordPress, we used Chrome “Inspect Element” tool to preview various CSS changes. And for simple modifications like font color, the inspection tool […]
PHP is the language of WordPress. It’s how all the plugins, themes, and WordPress itself are written. Each new version of PHP brings out new features, speed improvements, bug fixes, and security patches. And every new version of WordPress makes better use of the functionality of PHP. The development of WordPress and the development of […]
We frequently get tickets asking us to change the location of WordPress. If you’re using the Softaculous auto installer it’s not hard to accidentally install WordPress in the /wp folder as that’s the default location. Some people will simply delete the install and re-install leaving that parameter out: If that’s not an option for you […]
WordPress bylines are the little snippets of text that appear above each post. It’s usually different for each theme, and each site. Sometimes it includes the author name, sometimes, the last modified date, or published date. Whether or not it’s a good thing to include the byline is a subject of much debate. I think […]