How do I add extra content to a page, from the admin screen, but outside of the main content block? That’s a question you’ll eventually run into with many different CMSs. And it can be a pain. While sometimes, you’ll be able to use a CMS that takes complex page layouts into account (such as Perch, Concrete5, ImpressPages, and the like), it’s not always an option. A massive percentage of the Internet is built on WordPress for a reason after all. I’ve looked for different options over the years,...
Hey WordPress lovers. Every month dozens of incredible free WordPress plugins are released by the community, and we’re here to bring them to you. This seems to be a month of small but useful utilities that only do one or two things, with a few exceptions. So go on. March on down to the list, and get to it! (I'm only a little bit ashamed of that pun.) WP NoteUp ... Notes! Alongside your posts and pages! Use them to remind yourself, or other authors, about things you'd put in a note. That's really all there is to...
You’ve been writing HTML/CSS, and a little bit of JS for an hour now. This next template for your WordPress theme is almost complete. With an unconscious sigh of relief, you refresh the page, and there it is! It’s done. You deserve a break. And then you see it. Something is positioned wrong, or missing. Something’s out of order. Something’s wrong. Awww, hell. Why now? Why me? Why do bad things happen to good... ok, decent people? It’s a bug. It hurts to look at. So, incidentally, does your code....
The WordPress theme market nowadays could undoubtedly be described as huge. There are tons of offers and new options appear every day. Rarely has a week gone by without any “WordPress theme reviews” in my news feed. But when it comes to the selection of a theme for a specific project, such diversity provides more pain than one might expect. Usually, we just try to find a good looking theme that suits the aesthetic of our project, and has some set of customization options. The problem here is that WordPress...
Transients are such a powerful part of WordPress, yet are overlooked and under utilized. Using the transients API, you can store values in a standardized way, giving them an expiration time. This frees up space in the database and can lead to significant load time improvements. In this article, I’ll show you everything you need to know to use transients, and a few examples to show you just how powerful they can be! Why use expiring data? ... The first question that might be on your mind is, “Why would...
In this article, I will cover custom taxonomies and how they are created. I will make three custom taxonomies to show how the code can be reused with ease and also adapted to the needs of each taxonomy. Let’s start with a definition of custom taxonomies. What are custom taxonomies ? ... Taxonomies are different ways of grouping things together. A real life example might be TV shows: they can distributed by a number of different variables, like the channel airing them, their genre, or even the hour...
WordPress is the most widely used CMS, it’s employed to build countless websites and we can customize it to the max. But sometimes we forget about the admin panel. Clients love white-label products because they feel bespoke. So today, we’ll cover three simple ways to customize the WordPress admin panel to make your clients feel that they’re using their own dedicated CMS. 1. Change the login logo ... This is a popular hack in the WordPress community. It’s achieved by changing the logo CSS and...
Sometimes, you come to a point with a WordPress website where you just want something new and different to better fit the design needs of your site. The way to do that in WordPress is by building a child theme. The reason you need a child theme is that updates may cause changes to be overwritten. That means that the theme will go back to default and all your work may be lost. In order to prevent that, you build a child theme. Getting started with WordPress child themes ... For this tutorial, we are creating a child...