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.

Building off of both the public 6.2 Source of Truth, 6.3 Source of Truth, and 6.4 Source of Truth, I’m offering up the next edition for WordPress 6.5, set to launch March 26th, 2024. Comp…

This guide outlines major developer features and breaking changes in 6.5 and is published in the Release Candidate cycle to help inform WordPress extending developers, Core developers, and others. …

WordPress 6.5 introduces pivotal updates to media management and gallery functionalities, enriching the platform's content creation and display capabilities. These updates aim to optimize site performance, elevate visual aesthetics, and streamline user workflows.

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

Building off of both the public 6.2 Source of Truth and 6.3 Source of Truth, I’m offering up the next edition for WordPress 6.4, set to launch November 7th, 2023. This is an early look — …

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…

This video seeks to give an early look at WordPress 6.0 and what folks have to look forward to. It starts with a high level overview before going into sectio...

Have you ever wondered how WordPress works and what magic goes on to make it the platform we know and love? Here are the 5 elements of WordPress.

Learn the challenges of redesigning the WordPress VIP Product Documentation Portal "to help customers help themselves."

The WordPress community is diverse and global. The power of open source is that anyone can contribute from anywhere at any time, regardless of their background.  Even more importantly, the mor…

WordPress 5.9 unlocks the ability to build with blocks across all parts of your site, bringing advanced design tools to build your templates, themes, and style your sites in new and exciting ways. …

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…

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…

WordPress image sizes are more complex than you might expect. It's essential to understand how image sizes work in WordPress, what the default image sizes

Check out our in-depth review of WordPress 5.8 and discover all the major features coming with the latest release (there are plenty)!

Introducing 5.8 “Tatum”, our latest and greatest release, named in honor of the legendary jazz pianist Art Tatum. This release includes an all new widget editor powered by blocks, major technical t…

This is the first part of a larger project in cleaning up WordPress admin CSS. In WordPress 5.7, all colors used in the CSS is collapsed to one of 12 blues, greens, reds, and yellows, 13 grays, pur…

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…

We share the best way to set up scheduled events in WordPress and why the default WP-Cron configuration is terrible & really does need proper configuration.

Contribute to WordPress/contributor-day-handbook development by creating an account on GitHub.

In this guide, we go over everything you need to know about the WordPress database including a thorough tour, connecting to a WordPress database and more.

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…

Who develops WordPress? What does the future hold for it? Which WordPress package should you choose?

I've been looking *deeply* at W3Techs market share numbers for CMSs. See WooCommerce's astonishing growth, analysis on open source vs closed source and more!

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Back in 2015 I wrote an ebook called A Practical Guide to WordPress and the GPL which I made available for purchase on WP and Legal Stuff. You could also buy an audio book version that I’d ha…

Learn to work with WordPress custom fields, also called post meta. Code examples to get, update, and delete post meta, practical advice, and more.