Planning a WordPress Knowledge Base
Many years ago, I used to write technical manuals for clients. These would generally take the form of paper documents, with hundreds of pages of technical information printed off and probably used as...
View ArticleDeveloper Plugin: Essential for WordPress Theme Development
Learning how to develop WordPress themes and plugins is an exciting and adventurous journey for any WordPress developer. Read the original: Developer Plugin: Essential for WordPress Theme Development
View ArticleThe Benefits of Using the Free Shortcoder Plugin
What You’ll Be CreatingWhat’s a Shortcode?Typically, when you place content in WordPress posts, what you see is what you get—or WYSIWYG. If you type, “The quick brown fox jumped over the white fence,”...
View ArticleHow to Back Up a WordPress Site with CodeGuard
What You’ll Be CreatingWhat Is CodeGuard?CodeGuard is an automated, cloud-based backup service for websites and databases, and it’s well suited to securely backing up your WordPress sites in real...
View ArticleCreating Your WordPress Knowledge Base’s Structure
By this stage you should already have a plan for your knowledge base’s structure and any post types and taxonomies you’ll need to use to store your data.The next step is to create the structure for...
View ArticleMore Essential Plugins for WordPress Theme Development
In the previous part of the series, we did set up a WordPress development environment and installed all the necessary plugins required to help us with our theme development efforts. Read the article:...
View ArticleCreating Your Own Widgets Using Various WordPress APIs: Introduction
What You’ll Be CreatingWidgets are a neat way of giving site owners some control over the look (and sometimes functionality) of their WordPress sites. In this series, we are going to be creating a...
View ArticleReleasing your WordPress Theme Framework
You may have just developed your theme framework for yourself and/or your team in which case the steps involved in releasing your code won’t be relevant. View article: Releasing your WordPress Theme...
View ArticleWriting Documentation for Your WordPress Theme Framework
So, you now have a WordPress theme framework. Read the original: Writing Documentation for Your WordPress Theme Framework
View ArticleCreating Your WordPress Knowledge Base’s Front End
In the previous part of this series, I showed you how to register custom taxonomies for your knowledge base and deregister the ones you don’t need.The next step is to create the front end, by creating...
View ArticleDynamically Adding Four Footer Widget Areas
These days, many WordPress themes have a number of widget areas in the footer, meaning you can create a “fat footer” with multiple widget areas side by side. It’s something I use on all of my...
View ArticleCreate a License Controlled Theme and Plugin Update System, Part 1: The...
As great as the official WordPress theme and plugin directories are, there are times when you don’t want to use them for distributing your plugin or theme. Maybe it’s because you are selling your...
View ArticleCombining Underscores With Bootstrap to Create a Theme Framework: Introducing...
What You’ll Be CreatingBootstrap is a front-end framework for developing responsive, mobile-first projects on the web. In this tutorial you’ll get an overview of how it works, and what advantages it...
View ArticleCreate a License Controlled Plugin and Theme Update System — Part 2: The...
This is the second tutorial in a three-part tutorial series about building a license controlled WordPress plugin and theme update system. In the first part of the series, we created a WordPress plugin...
View ArticleThe Beginners Guide to WooCommerce: General Settings
In the previous article, we gave an introduction to WooCommerce. Let’s talk about the General Settings of WooCommerce now.Installation and ActivationBeing a WordPress-based plugin; its installation is...
View ArticleCombining Underscores With Bootstrap to Create a Theme Framework: Introducing...
This tutorial is the second in the series Combining Bootstrap and Underscores to Create Your Own Theme Framework. In this tutorial, we are going to introduce you to one of the main components of the...
View ArticleCreate a License Controlled Plugin and Theme Update System, Part 3: Doing the...
In the first two tutorials in the series, we have built a WordPress plugin for managing software licenses. Read More: Create a License Controlled Plugin and Theme Update System, Part 3: Doing the Update
View ArticleAccelerate Your Content Delivery With KeyCDN
What You’ll Be CreatingIn this tutorial, I’m going to introduce you to KeyCDN, a fast, simple, affordable and reliable content delivery network (CDN) that’ll make you want to use it on all your...
View ArticleWhen You’re Hacked in WordPress: Staying Safe Later On
In the first part of this series, we went through what to do when your website gets hacked. In this second part, we’re going to learn about staying safe and being able to act quickly when another...
View ArticleSpeed Up WordPress: Caching and Database Optimization
One of the most popular talking points in the WordPress community is speeding up WordPress and optimizing web pages. I don’t think there is a WordPress blog without an “X Tips to Speed Up WordPress”...
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