WordPress Tutorials

When WordPress 4.7 was released at the end of 2016 most of the response was around the new REST API endpoints for posts, comments, terms, users, meta, and settings. However, it was one of the new smal…

One of the questions we get asked fairly often about WP Offload S3 is whether or not it is OK to use in development or staging environments. When done correctly, using WP Offload S3 can greatly reduce…

Check out these recommendations on how to diagnose and resolve high admin-ajax.php usage on your WordPress site, typically caused by 3rd party plugins.

Learn how to change or add your posts dates to reflect updated posts on your WordPress site, blog, or online store.

Did you know that when you're using the search boxes on your WordPress site, you can narrow down the results by providing words that you don't want included? That's right! This method works both on

Website development can often be a lengthy and arduous process, especially if you’re creating it for someone who doesn’t have a clear vision of what the...

Beginner's guide to fix common image issues in WordPress such as how to create image gallery, align images, add captions in WordPress, and more.

How to customize wordpress comment notification and moderation mails using comment_moderation_recipients and comment_notification_recipients filters.

In this tutorial, we look at WordPress custom image sizes: massively useful, and actually pretty easy to use!

Learn how to manage WordPress User Roles with code. In this tutorial you will also see how to add capabilities to WordPress Users & User Roles.

Do you constantly hear WordPress devs talking about "The Loop", but you're not entirely sure what that is, or how to use it? Take a look!

Check out how to disable WordPress plugins on specific pages and posts. This helps increase the speed of your site and provides a better user experience.

This article covers crucial questions like "what is a custom taxonomy?", "what is a taxonomy anyway?" and "how can I create a custom taxonomy?"

Since January 2017, Google has stepped up its enforcement of "HTTPS everywhere" by identifying websites that don't have an SSL certificat...

ACF’s get_field() function is convenient, but is not always the best choice. Here I present a recursive function as an alternative to get_field().

If you're programmatically inserting or updating posts, it's important to make sure you're properly filtering post content.

For Developers of WordPress plug-ins and templates. Problems encountered by our team are often caused by third-party plug-ins or pure coded templates for WordPress on users sites. Thereby all develope…

Agbonghama covers how to hook methods of an instantiated class (object) to actions and filters and the caveats of using namespaces in WordPress hook system.

WordPress turned into an oEmbed provider in version 4.4. It would allow you to embed any WordPress post into another post / page. Great. So now if I’d paste the url of another WordPress post on my blo…

WordPress shortcodes provide a quick and easy way to perform tasks and include HTML code into post content. Here is a great introduction for developers!

When building a WordPress site, there’s a number of things you should do prior to launching it. From content to design to the legalities of setting up your site, check below for some essential things …

Jérémy Heleine covers what WordPress pages are, how to manage pages and an overview of some of the functions in the WordPress Pages API.

Learn how to add custom embed options in the WordPress Media Uploader using PHP and JavaScript. Understand how Backbone Views can be extended.

Using a direct database query, you can load all WordPress custom fields. Here's how to do so in a way that's safe.

I do a lot of WordPress Development. One of the things I’ve started doing is coding custom themes so they’re modular. What does this mean? It means that I focus on each of the elements within the them…

A detailed guide to centralizing code via a theme wrapper, custom actions and layout classes in WordPress.

When using Yoast SEO you may notice the title tags for the main events views (Month, List, Map, etc) all say Event Archives instead of Events for August 2015 or similar. Like this: Instead of this: Th…

Most of the calendar views contain a title, normally located just under the events bar. In the example, we can see that the title on the list view is Upcoming Events. It may be that you consider this …

While The Events Calendar provides the Organizer and Venue post types by default, you may want to have another post type to associate with events, like “Speakers” or “Instructors”. Like Organizers, yo…

While I have been generally happy with the plugin, I was not impressed with the lack of options that come with the events list widget. Also, the widget only shows the title of the event and the dat…