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WordPress has come a long way since it launched in 2003. Here’s our round-up of the most interesting stats and facts about WordPress.

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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…

Internationalization is the process of developing your theme, so it can easily be translated into other languages. Internationalization is often abbreviated as i18n (because there are 18 letters betwe…

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 very easy to use and manage, but it can also become a nightmare for content creators and users. We must help them.

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…

WordPress is a publishing platform that makes it easy for anyone to publish online, and proudly powers millions of websites. It comes in two flavors: the fully hosted WordPress.com, and the self-hoste…

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.

SME (Small and Medium-sized Enterprises) have been one of the strategic audiences that DevriX regularly partners up with. There are certain peculiar misconceptions (or legitimate concerns) that enterp…

The idea is that any objects embedded in a post’s content have their own home and should be seen as separate resources. Data would be stored elsewhere. Examples Object Types This approach cou…

WordPress 4.7 introduces a significant reworking of action and filter iteration to address bugs that arose from recursive callbacks and from callbacks that changed the hooked callbacks on currently…

WordPress is moving upmarket, powering high-traffic, mission-critical websites. Find out what it takes to run WordPress at scale.

As a data scientist, I spend a lot of time analyzing how our users interact with WordPress.com. However, WordPress.com isn’t the only place to gain insight into how people use and talk about our se…

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Just how popular is WordPress? Who is using WordPress? Should I use WordPress for my blog? Our WordPress usage statistics will help you find out.

Those things are new in the WordPress 4.7 release. Custom bulk actions, theme inheritance, custom smilies, own events and many more.

WordPress is an ever-growing open source platform that powers more than 23.5% of the websites today....

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