Tutorials

We’ve spoken a lot about optimising your website design for mobile use recently. We’ve looked at 3 WordPress plugins that make your website more mobile-friendly and the Handheld Mobile WordPress … Read more

WordPress is great, but let’s face it – most good plugins are born out of a need to do something WordPress doesn’t do out of the box. If you’re a WordPress … Read more

In this article I will be showing you how even small changes to your WordPress-powered website can make a huge difference to your sites performance. In addition to tips and … Read more

In today’s coding generation, HTML is a very basic language. For that reason alone, I am going to call this a beginner’s tutorial on HTML and its use in WordPress. … Read more

I think that the leaner robots.txt file from Jeff Star is a good starting point for WordPress users as it specifies the most important folders that should be blocked from the search … Read more

When it comes to building a successful website: Speed counts. Speed counts a lot. Google uses the performance of a website as one of its key factors for ranking a … Read more

If you’re having trouble with your networked printer, the first step is always to find out its IP address. There are a few different ways you can do it. This … Read more

Did you just bump into an unexpected “ ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS ” error message on WordPress? Trying to fix this error issue can be infuriating, especially when you don’t know what it … Read more

Let’s be real. We bloggers, writers, website managers want the classic editor BACK. This full white, block editor interface just needs to go! If you are here thinking the same … Read more

Given the success of Pinterest and it’s recent jump into the position of the 3rd most popular social media site on the web after Facebook and Twitter, it’s no surprise that someone has designed … Read more

Code snippets are a great way of sharing useful code with other website owners and programmers. All the reader has to do is copy and paste the code you publish … Read more

Blogging scripts, such as WordPress, revolutionized the internet as they allowed non-technical people to create websites easily. WordPress is famous for its five-minute installation process. All you have to do is … Read more

Recently, I was working on a plugin that uses a custom post type to create Markers for Google Maps. Since interaction with Google Maps requires use of javascript, I needed … Read more

I am not referring to removing the theme currently in use on your WordPress site, as each site must have an active theme. Instead, I am addressing themes that have … Read more

In this tutorial, I am going to demonstrate how you can make a very nice enhanced version of the plain old comments section for your current WordPress theme. This is an … Read more

Do you have an already written HTML snippet you would like to include in your WordPress blog or website but are having trouble? We can help! It would certainly save a lot … Read more

If you are a WordPress developer, you have surely fought with WordPress cross-browser compatibility issues. In this tutorial, I will show you how to overcome many of the common issues that arise … Read more

I have been using WordPress since 2004/2005 – and when new features come out, sometimes it takes time to implement them in new and existing websites you work on. When custom post … Read more

This is an advanced tutorial for WordPress users interested in using WordPress CakePHP. There are several tricks in this tutorial you can apply to your WordPress/CakePHP setup when moving from … Read more

No More Passwords is a cool new WordPress plugin from Jack Reichert that lets you log in to your WordPress-powered website by scanning a Quick Response Barcode with your smartphone. Once you have activated the … Read more

Have you ever wanted more control over how posts are categorized in WordPress? We did a project recently where the client wanted a WordPress story authoring site. He wanted to use … Read more

Recently I have shown you how you can use WordPress to create an arcade website, job board and a discussion forum. Today I will be showing you how you can … Read more

When writing a WordPress tutorial about creating an archives page last week I was reminded about the confusion which arises between the Archive.php and Archives.php files. Sometimes WordPress themes have … Read more

One feature that makes WordPress a highly flexible and powerful content management system is its implementation of taxonomies. By default, WordPress ships with the “category” and “post_tag” taxonomies. WordPress allows … Read more

WordPress has evolved from a blogging tool to a fully-fledged content management system (CMS). It wouldn’t run 70+ million websites if it didn’t have the capabilities that most people needed to … Read more

Gravity Forms is pretty much the de facto standard for form development inside of WordPress. The first thing that comes to mind is the standard “contact form” (which it’s very, … Read more

More often than not my day consists of WordPress website problems I need to find a solutions for. Much of it I can draw from my own experience, but often I’ll Google … Read more

A client recently asked me to change the order of a list of categories displayed in a sidebar. I opened the proper file, located the call to get_terms that collected the terms, … Read more

GPL is short for GNU General Public License, which was created by the Free Software Foundation. When software is licensed under GPL terms, it means that the software is both … Read more

Do you want to know which of your posts is the most popular? Would you like some insight on what your WordPress website’s visitors like to see? Want to know where you … Read more

Podcasts are nothing new. You probably have one or two you listen to or watch on a regular basis yourself but have you ever considered creating one? It’s not as … Read more

A frequently overlooked enhancement that shipped with WordPress 3.1 has made querying posts by postmeta values significantly simpler. The WordPress core team made this improvement by adding the “meta_query” parameter … Read more