WordPress Reference

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

WordPress is shipped with quite an abundance of Template Tags since its inception. These Template Ta...

I am getting a bit frustrated over here after having spent a few hours trying to accomplish this fai...

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Q&A for WordPress developers and administrators

Akismet, the most popular spam killing plugin for WordPress, encounters 7.5 million pieces of spam p...

There sure is a lot you need to remember when working with WordPress theme files. From the names of basic template files to functions and how the WordPress Loop works, it’s next to impossible to...

Plugins are one of the key strengths of WordPress. Chris Burgess shares a list of resources to help ...

See the Markdown page for instructions on enabling Markdown for posts, pages and comments on your bl...

Happy Birthday WordPress! Let's celebrate 13 glorious years of the existence of the most splendid Co...

As you work in the WordPress Admin Area, you'll undoubtedly encounter

This in-depth guide explains HTTP/2 for end-users and developers. From basic information to more adv...

In Gravity Forms 1.5 we're adding some new "Ready Classes". Using these new classes, you can easily ...

A mobile content revolution is afoot. Content distribution giants like Facebook, Google, and Apple a...

Agbonghama Collins helps readers learn what WordPress custom post types (CPTs) are and how they're c...

How to use WordPress' built-in functions to run conditional checks for custom post types.

Wondering what the yearly cost of ownership is for a WordPress website? This guide goes through the ...

How to run a WordPress site at scale

Hooks in WordPress are useful and widely used, but not straightforward. Extend plugins/themes withou...

If you have ever tried to load a website on a mobile device with very large “high-res” images, you h...

I previously wrote about the first version of the WordPress JSON API here, but turns out, it’s not a...

twentysixteen - Twenty Sixteen is a modernized take on an ever-popular WordPress layout — the horizo...

Last week at WordCamp US, co-founder of WordPress Matt Mullenweg delivered the annual State of the W...

Employing responsive images in a large CMS can be very difficult. Luckily, if you're using WordPress...

During the holidays, most of us slow down a bit from what we’re used to doing every day so that we c...

Calypso is the new WordPress.com admin interface, which also can be used for your self-hosted WordPr...

An introduction to the Responsive Images feature in WordPress 4.4. This post explains how the featur...

Check out the Hot 100 WordPress themes and plugins. These lists show you which theme or plugin is ac...

"Caching" is, generally, the solution you hear offered for most performance problems a WordPress sit...