WordPress Tutorials

One of the most frequently asked question on the ACF support forum is how to use a WP_ Query to search for posts based on the values in repeater fields. I’m going to give you the answer, and it is a really simple one. You Don’t! You will find several discussions and filters on the […]

I'd like to use a custom post type archive as a site's front page, so that http://the_site.com/ is a custom post type archive displayed according to my archive-{post-type}.php file. Ideally I ...

Managing a WordPress site is tough work, and it’s made even more difficult when encountering frustrations on the backend. And the reason why is simple: The more your site grows, the more cluttered it can become. But never fear. We’re

By default users with the role of editor cannot see the "Appearance" menu and are not able to access any sub pages, including the menu editor. If you want

A deep dive into the concepts of WordPress user roles and capabilities from both developer's and user's perspectives. Check out these concrete examples.

This guide will demonstrate how add custom fields to a Taxonomy Term and then modify the term’s template file HTML. Terms can be items such as WordPress ca

setup_postdata() lets you treat any bundle of posts the way you would normally treat the results of a WP_Query. setup_postdata() is a function I really lov

WordPress sites are powered by their database and learning how it works gives you the power to edit and control your site data and settings with SQL queries

Utilizing custom fields is a great way to tailor your site’s content to match your exact needs. But the more fields you add, the more unwieldy the WordPres

WordPress image sizes contain defaults, small, medium and large as well as medium-large which is used in their implementation of responsive images. You can remove these default images with a WordPress filter intermediate_image_sizes_advanced Why you may want to do this could be that you definitely don’t need certain sizes or you are saving on web disk…

When working on WordPress Plugins that are going to be used by others, you may want to enable other developers to create their WordPress extensions for your plugin. That will make your plugin grow even more. Previously I have written […]

Is you WordPress featured image not displaying correctly or perhaps an old image is showing? Find out how to fix this using the Facebook Debugger tool.

How to make an explainer video to promote your WordPress product for free - including how to script your video, tools and software to use, plus examples

Want to get a listing of all the fields saved in Advanced Custom Fields? Here's how, and it's an interesting way of fetching data from another WordPress plugin.

Keeping your WordPress image media library under control can mean a big difference to your site loading faster as well as your hard disk size footprint with the ability to easily back up or migrate your site. You basically need to remove any unused image sizes and images themselves not used, optimise existing image sizes and ensure future…

Struggling with some aspect of Wordpress images? We collected 25+ common WordPress image errors and we'll show you how to fix each one.

A detailed developer guide for adding WordPress Customizer functionality into your theme or plugin, including creating your own custom controls.

How to create a FAQ page in WordPress using Advanced Custom Fields and jQuery. ACF (Advanced Custom Fields) Pro comes with a great inclusion called the Repeater field which allows a user to continuall…

Creating a simple JQuery Accordion using Wordpress with Advanced Custom Fields and the add-on "Flexible Content Fields".

A few weeks ago I finished development on my new website, and it was time to finalize content. I had hoped to have most of it ready before development, but dev is more fun than writing so I had procrastinated. By the time I was ready to launch, there were about 20 new, approved comments…

We do a lot of custom Gravity Forms work and custom WordPress theme development. Over the years, the need to hide the Gravity Form field labels has come up a few times. In most scenarios, this pertain…

An Author 'XYZ' is need to be set as the Default author of all New Posts. Irrespective of the actual Author posting the content, the post should be saved by this author 'XYZ'. Is there a Plugin or

Struggling with how to change the author in WordPress? We'll show you how to change the author for a single post, multiple posts, and more!

Learn eight tips and tricks that will help you to customize authors on your WordPress blog. Change permalinks, manage redirects, style posts, and find new

If you are attempting to customize the order of search results to a great degree, the searchwp_query_orderby filter allows you to explicitly alter the ORDER BY used in the final query. NOTE: The main …

Like I wrote about in a previous post about migrating to SiteGround, my blog was migrated from wordpress.com to a hosted wordpress.org. But that is not all to it, we still have some other activities to do to optimize this blog. It takes some effort and time to find out what the settings and plugins […]

Learn how to programmatically find unused shortcodes in WordPress. You will see how to search for such shortcodes by using code and WordPress functions

While working on a WordPress theme, I noticed a low MySQL query cache hit rate. There were a lot of SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS queries that were not cached and were slowing down the database. It appears Word…