Master WordPress file organization for custom development. Learn safe modification strategies, core directory functions, and build better templates with our developer's guide.

When we are developing a theme or plugin, or are implementing some other functionality in WordPress, it becomes important to determine whether the current page is the homepage. In this tutorial, we will learn exactly how to do that.

The WordPress 6.4 Field Guide brings together the changes in the release and some of the major highlights.

WordPress 6.3 introduces a new concept called “development mode”, which affects certain nuances in how WordPress behaves. Going forward, sites will be able to configure their development mode using…

In WordPress 5.9, new hooks and functions are added to help developers to work with Posts, Post types and Taxonomies. is_post_type_viewable filter WP 5.9 introduces the new is_post_type_viewable fi…

Metal & Coffee reflects on her experience as the release coordinator for WordPress 5.7

Edit 7/29/2020: a call out specific to Twenty Ten was added for the comment_type change. WordPress 5.5 comes with a number of small developer-focused changes. Here’s a summary of what you can…

A guide for commonly used Twig functions and concepts in building WordPress sites with Timber.

With the release of WordPress 5.4 looming, it is time for plugin and theme developers to begin testing their extensions and making sure there are no issues. There are also new APIs for upcoming fea…

Lightning fast regex searching of code in the WordPress Plugin and Theme Directories. Start searching now!

WordPress is a wonderful technology, but most small business website owners are not having wonderful experiences with it. After more than five years of doing WordPress development full-time, one thing keeps coming back to me: just how bad the average person's experience is having a small business website built in

Before deploying a new plugin in WordPress, it's a good idea to keep a list of easy-to-misuse functions by your side. Let's take a closer look at some functions which you can and should use as part of a broader security strategy.

Technically speaking, WordPress is free. But don't let that fool you. Check out the real truth behind WordPress website costs, which include hosting, themes, plugins, and more.

Escaping WordPress template functions can be confusing. Which functions does WordPress core already escape? Rachel had the same question...

If you have been managing a WordPress website for a while then you probably know that this content management platform uses a MySQL database to store every bit of information it needs to display your …

Languages: English • Français • 日本語 • (Add your language) A nonce is a "number used once" to help protect URLs and forms from certain types of misuse, malicious or otherwise. WordPress nonces aren't n…

Overview Your code works, but is it safe? When writing code that will run across hundreds if not thousands of websites, you should be extra cautious of how you handle data coming into WordPress and ho…

The plugin internationalization documentation is now located in the Plugin Developer Handbook. The plugin localization documentation is now located in the Plugin Developer Handbook. The theme internat…

In order to make a string translatable in your application you have to wrap the original strings in a call to one of a set of special functions. Introduction to Gettext #Introduction to Gettext WordPr…

WordPress is an extremely flexible piece of software, and it comes with many different settings. Some are made visible to users via Admin > Settings and others are stored invisibly so users aren’t bot…

In these pages we’re going to cover a set of coding guidelines that aim to make Modern Tribe’s plugin code more efficient, easier to read and understand, and more organized. Having a more readable, co…

Your code works, but is it safe? When writing your theme and plugin code, you'll need to be extra cautious of how you handle data coming into WordPress and how it's presented to the end user. This com…

VIP Codebase The WordPress.com VIP Codebase Explained WordPress Core A strong foundation on the open-sourced community project WordPress Core is what we call the WordPress software. It’s open-source, …

As you know from Getting Started, in order to keep the WordPress.com environment safe and performing to your high standards, we review in detail all plugins and themes. We also spot review all code be…

WordPress is the best platform for blogging and creating websites. 27% of the websites in the world are powered by WordPress platform & the number speaks for its popularity. There are lots of free the…

If you’re building your own themes for WordPress, or using a child theme to customize a third party theme, at some point you’ll come across the template hierarchy. It’s a brilliant system that dictates how WordPress chooses which template file to use for different types of content. It takes into account content types (e.g. posts, pages, attachment and custom post types), taxonomies (e.g. in category, tag and custom taxonomy archives) and even lets you create bespoke templates for specific pages.

Post meta queries bring down databases, cripple traffic scaling, and dramatically inflate page load times. Here's an easy solution

WordPress-Coding-Standards - PHP_CodeSniffer rules (sniffs) to enforce WordPress coding conventions

Today's topic is a pattern in WordPress programming called $args. It crops up all the time—so often ...