For years, theme developers wishing to pass data to template files have had to use less than ideal workarounds. This included the use of global variables, set_query_var(), the include( locate_…

Many users navigate websites using the keyboard only or with screen readers. These users need a way to skip directly to the main content of the page. If your theme has a navigation menu, a header /…

WordPress Theme development is a popular way of building WordPress sites for clients or for your own business if you’re into selling themes. But when starting out, it’s hard to choose how to approach …

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

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

Twenty Seventeen ships as the new default theme with WordPress 4.7. This business-oriented theme marks a noteworthy departure from the blog-centric default themes of the past and reflects WordPress’ b...

WooCommerce is one of the most popular and preferred ecommerce solution available on the internet to...

Learn how to diagnose admin-ajax.php slow responses in WordPress. High CPU load & repeated AJAX call...

Can you use WordPress to power your web design work? Of course you can. But how? That was the subject of a talk I gave at the 2011 Future of Web Design conference this May in London. If you missed ...

Today we're going to discuss a very useful hack I stumbled upon a month or two ago. I had a client who wanted to see live examples of a WordPress theme she

Our topic today is choosing a WordPress theme. Not surprisingly, the subject has come up before—there have been a number of general buyer's guides written,