WordPress Tutorials

Display Posts Shortcode lets you query for posts without writing code. I show you how to make the results match your theme's style.

Want to convert from Weebly to WordPress? Here's step by step guide on how to properly move from Weebly to WordPress - Free Importer tool included!

WP-CLI v2 is a powerful command line tool for developers to manage WordPress installations. Check out how to install and use WP-CLI commands.

Advanced Custom Fields is an excellent plugin for WordPress. Using Local JSON will improve the performance of any website using it.

WordPress is going through somewhat a transition lately with JSON REST API increasingly becoming a thing. And a good thing at that, because it's finally catching up with the rest of data-driven, JSON-powered world. What is JSON If you're unfamiliar with JSON (abbreviation for JavaScript Object Notation), simply put it's a standard format in which... [Continue Reading]

Recently, I found myself setting up a new WordPress site, but with an enormous legacy of content that needed to be uploaded in the form of posts and custom post types. We had about 1500 posts just in one category and a few hundred posts under different custom post types like ‘videos’ and ‘events’. To…

Learn how to create a WordPress intranet website for your business or organization. You'll learn how to create a completely internal localhost setup, as well as a more public-facing, but secured, extranet site. Plus tons of plugin and theme recommendations to get the functionality that you need.

Do you want to create a WordPress intranet for your team or company? Learn how to easily create a WordPress intranet for your organization.

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...

Insert Content in WordPress after a certain amount of paragraphs · GitHub

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'…