WordPress Reference

Definitions of words that you come in contact with when you use WordPress.

WordPress recently celebrated its 15th birthday. Not only is it quite an achievement for anything web-related to last that long, it’s also impressive to see that the content management system...

See how WordPress and WP Engine meet the unique needs of schools, colleges, universities and higher ed institutions at both the local and enterprise level.

There are many services, plugins and themes that expand WordPress in a way that it becomes the perfect online tool for everything education related!

WordPress keyboard shortcuts can help you work more productively. In this post, we'll share 63+ shortcuts that you can use while working in WordPress.

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

The WordPress Time Machine - a visual history of WordPress. Browse through all versions of WordPress since it was created in our WordPress history portal.

Given its importance, WordPress deserved to have a dedicated impact column in the IEEE Software magazine. IEEE Software‘s mission is to be the best source of reliable, useful, peer-reviewed information for leading software practitioners. The goal of these impact columns is to develop a better quantitative understanding of software’s impact on different industries. As such, the goal of the column is not just to describe a specific software product but to provide some insights on how the software is being developed and some metrics that help to assess its impact.

We asked WordPress users ranging from specialty dev agencies and bloggers to enterprise tech leads and CEOs to share with us their biggest headaches in managing and hosting their instances and the results were interesting enough to share.

It’s easy to forget that in WordPress we use a lot of jargon. So the Marketing Team has created this document and a downloadable PDF as a resource for you. Click through today.

db-command - Performs basic database operations using credentials stored in wp-config.php.

In WordPress 4.2, we’re upgrading tables to utf8mb4, when we can. Your site will only upgrade when the following conditions are met: You’re currently using the utf8 character set. Your …

WordPress now powers 30 percent of the web, according to data from web technology survey firm W3Techs. This represents a 5 percentage point increase in nearly two and a half years, after WordPress …

WordPress gives us full control over the presentation of our websites. We specify which classes and attributes to use in our template files, and then apply...

Google's partnership with WordPress aims to jump-start the platform's support of the latest web technologies -- particularly those involving performance & mobile experience. And they're hiring WordPress experts.

My name is Pippin Williamson. I'm a nature-loving farmboy who runs a software company called Sandhills Development. We build eCommerce, membership, and...

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.

The support team utilizes the Health Check plugin to help with troubleshooting common problems with websites, and to provide debug information to help with identifying problems with site setups. Th…

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.

For many years, we’ve invited folks to tell us how they use WordPress by filling out an annual survey. In the past, interesting results from this survey have been shared in the annual State o…

What is a REST API, again? If you work at all with the web, you will have probably heard of many “REST APIs”, particularly the WordPress REST API. Any article dealing with a REST API devotes its beginning to explaining what a REST API is. While we follow that pattern, we’ll try to be as…

The Inc. 5000 shows the first 5,000 companies with the fastest growth in the US in the last three years. Find out how many use WordPress!

Here's a rundown through all of the major versions of WordPress to see the evolution of WordPress UI over the years.

We've gathered a rather massive list of 120+ great WordPress cheat sheets, web development cheat sheets, design cheat sheets, and more.

The core team announced the beta version of the new WordPress v4.9 about a week ago. After using it for a while, I am excited to share the new features and

This list of the top 100K high traffic WordPress powered sites has been compiled as part of our analysis of the Alexa Top 1 million ranked