Though WordPress is increasingly on the verge of becoming a fully-fledged application framework, the humble post editor remains the area of the interface users spend most of their time in. It’s a part of the backend that’s seen significant improvements over the last number of years – the recent move to version 4.0 of TinyMCE in WordPress 3.9 being a highlight – but there’s still plenty of room for improvement. One of the most common problems users have with the editor is the need to constantly switch between editing and preview modes to see how content will actually look live.

The WordPress excerpts system works properly, but it uses lots of functions and it's hard to know which one does what. The WordPress post excerpts system Code snippets to change your WordPress post excerpts: set excerpt length, customize "Read More" text, count characters instead of words, and more.

I'm using the following to generate the thumbnail from a Vimeo video in Wordpress via the functions.php file: function get_vimeo_thumb($id, $size = 'thumbnail_small') { if(get_transient('vimeo_'...

There are times where you may find yourself in a situation in which you need to work with rewrite rules and page templates.

This post provides a short, simple guide on how to use the WP Image Editor for resizing images programmatically.

Maintaining CSS is difficult, especially in bigger projects working with a team. Naming conventions can help your CSS be more readable and easier to maintain. In this quick tip we’ll look at how to...

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This filter is executed before the form is displayed and can be used to insert a review page before the final form submission.

Here’s how to quickly and easily build and design flowcharts using Gravity Flow’s new Flowchart Extension.

Want to build workflows using WordPress and Gravity Forms? Here’s how to do it.

There are a lot of migration systems for WordPress. We’ve had lots of good experiences with All-in-One WP Migration. Some people swear by WP Migrate DB Pro. Others are partial to WP-CLI’s terminal-based systems. One of the few tools I’d never tried was Duplicator, but I recently did and I love it. I was very pleasantly surprised about a specific facet of it: I don’t need WordPress to get a new local copy of a remote WordPress site running on my local machine. You just pull down two files, put them in the same folder, and then you’re set. It’s great!

Craig isn't happy with the HTML produced by WordPress's wp_tag_cloud() function. In this tutorial he provides a customizable tag cloud generator which can be styled using CSS.

A post detailing how to centrally align oEmbeds. This includes both classic editor and the new editor (included in WordPress 5.0 - codename Gutenberg).

WordPress developers often enqueue scripts or styles for their themes or plugins. When creating a widget or shortcode, they aren't needed unless on the page

The WordPress loop is ubiquitous. It is one of the first things you learn as a WordPress developer and it is something you must know the intricacies of in order to avoid causing problems. Learn how simple PHP generator can be used to simplify things and create a better WordPress loop...

Step by step guide that shows you how to set a branded image as a default fallback post thumbnail or how to set the first post image as the default fallback post thumbnail.

I found the one file to fix that kept my Twitter Card images from not showing when sharing posts from my WordPress blog. Here is how I fixed it..

Enqueuing is the WordPress way to add a stylesheet or JavaScript file on a page. We already published a Quick Guide about including your JavaScript in WordPress. This time, though, we’re adding an extra wrinkle: how do you only enqueue a JavaScript file on certain pages of your WordPress site. That’s the focus of this here Quick Guide.

You can use the body_class filter in WordPress to add the Taxonomy Terms of a Custom Taxonomy as CSS classes to a post. The CSS class appears in the body element and is only used if the post has been assigned to the taxonomy. The code goes in your functions.php file. add_filter( 'body_class', 'themeprefix_add_taxonomy_class'…

Is there a better way to make direct changes to your WordPress website? Yes, there is! Learn how to build a local WordPress environment with XAMPP and how to get your website online once it’s ready to see the light of day.

I gave an introduction to continuous integration with WordPress at WordCamp San Diego 2018. This is the companion article that I wrote for it. If you’re just looking for the slides, click here.

I can't stop praising WordPress when it comes to the conveniences it provides. While the approach it takes on things might not suit everyone, every time, for the most part its solutions to common issues

Migrating from Wix to WordPress can be rather a complicated process, but it's definitely worth it. Check out this complete migration guide which can help make the transition a breeze!

We'll show you how to pass the transaction fees to the customer and how to make this optional. This tutorial assumes that you know how to add fields in Gravity Forms and know how to set up Paypal/Stripe on there as well.

Lots of people have asked us how to create an instant online quote calculator for their WordPress website. Here's how we created our own, so you can too.

If you wanted to see all the post meta keys and values for a post,page or custom post type in WordPress you can either see them in the database in the wp_postmeta table or you could use the get_post_meta function to retrieve all the post meta or a specific key. To output the data to…

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