I often wonder why there isn’t a function in WordPress core that will get a post excerpt outside of the loop. Here is a function that will do just that.

This is an introduction to the core concepts of WordPress themes and comes from the upcoming Second Edition of our "learn WordPress development" course Up

So you are building a super duper cool plugin™ that, say, does something with widgets or shortcodes and you need to apply some CSS conditionally. No worries, that's what wp_add_inline_style() is there…

In today’s tutorial we’ll be using CSS to style a standard Caldera Form into a transparent form with your selected background image showing through.

We’ve covered adding custom meta boxes to WordPress previously, now we'll move on to explaining their relationship and integration with post types.

Need to set up an appointment booking calendar for your WordPress site? Most of our themes are built for businesses, so we know how important a reliable scheduling system is. In this post, I’ll take y…

Some of the most incredible, most wanted, and extremely useful tricks for the WordPress functions.php file. Speed up your development now.

Learn how to migrate WordPress from one hosting provider to another. We'll show you two tried and true methods that will never let you down.

Unregistering a post type is a serious issue for child theme developers. Because parent theme contains some unwanted post types and that lead to some confu

If you've had any experience working with parent and child themes in WordPress, you'll know that the template files in your child theme override those in your parent theme. So for example if your...

Sticky-kit provides an easy way to attach elements to the page when the user scrolls such that the element is always visible. Let's take a look at how we can use Sticky-Kit to make webpage elements re…

Responsive websites and responsive themes are more than a passing fashion. With more and more people using a mobile device to access the internet, responsiveness is now an essential feature of any good website or WordPress theme. If you check out the WordPress theme repository, you’ll find that the majority or recent themes are responsive. And our WPMU DEV themes are responsive too, meaning they look and work great on any device.

WordPress Taxonomies have by default fours field you may enter: title, slug, parent and description. How about adding an image to a category? You can do that with custom fields. In this tutorial we wi…

Using responsive tabs and ACF repeater field you can present a clean easy to use client front end field submission that can sort repeater field data into appropriate tabbed content. The 2 links above …

We cover the simplest ways to create 301 redirects in WordPress, and why it's crucial to 301 redirect anytime your site changes permalinks.

Here's how to start querying event post types with WP Query for The Event Calendar and the base level of arguments you need.

The complete guide to The Events Calendar's "Featured Events" features.

Using the CLI to control WordPress can really change the game. We explain how WP-CLI makes that possible for you, and how to do it. It's great!

This course covers one of WordPress's most crucial and widely used systems: Hooks, including both actions and filters. We introduce Hooks as an event-drive

WordPress 4.7 has delivered some fantastic new enhancements to the CMS’s template system. Templates have now been expanded to include all post types, allowing developers to create more nuanced themes and at the same time allowing site owners to manage content more easily. But how does it all work? In this article, I’ll show you how to use post type templates in your themes with a few easy examples. So What are Templates in WordPress? Templates are essentially special files that can change the look and feel of a page and/or add functionality to your WordPress website.

The hooks system is a central pillar of WordPress and with the 4.7 release a major overhaul of how it works was merged. The Trac ticket that initially raised an issue with the hooks system was logged ...

Learn how to use and filter metadata by leveraging the WP_Query object to save hours off your development time and improve your product's code.

Five small tutorials aiming to help developers and advanced users get the most from the default Twenty Seventeen theme in WordPress 4.7.

I need to write a REST API endpoint, but lets assume we know nothing about REST APIs.

If you need to manually clear the WP Rocket cache, you can do so using an FTP program, or the File Manager in your hosting control panel. All your site’s cache files are stored here: wp-content/cache/...

WordPress’ built-in oEmbed features allow you to embed single events by simply pasting an event’s permalink into post or page content; you can learn more about this functionality here. While that feat...

The Events Calendar and its add-ons, like Events Calendar PRO, integrate with the WordPress Customizer to provide a number of options for quick, easy customization. You can tweak the colors of a numbe...

I stumbled upon a new filter added in WordPress 4.7 that allows you to modify the output generated by a shortcode! Handy!

Use HTML in Gravity Forms Email Notifications for WordPress to increase font-size, add background colors, images, hyperlinks, and more.

How to configure WP Cron to work properly via Linux crontab and Uptime Robot. Ensure WP Cron runs on time.