WordPress Tutorials

When it comes to making your WordPress site secure as a developer, probably the most impactful thing you can do is make sure you always clean up data they

Recently, I was working on site speed for a client with one page that makes a large number of custom database queries through WordPress’s WP_Query API.

Adding faceted search to your WordPress site without a third party plugin is easier than you might think. Here is how to create a search form without too much trouble.

As we watch the number of non-English WordPress installations grow faster than English installations, the value of making your plugin “translation ready” grows as well. In order to make your plugin tr…

Push notifications are an emerging marketing channel. Learn what they are, their pros and cons and how to add push notifications to WordPress via plugin.

Learn everything there is to know about Jetpack Galleries. Whether you're a beginner or already familiar, you can gain something from this guide.

One of the biggest tasks you can undertake with a client is a complete redesign of their website. However, WordPress has a myriad of moving parts, which can make producing consistent work a challenge.…

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 …

The Events Calendar - Exclude a specific category from all roles except admin.

How to add a page as a parent to a custom post type in Wordpress. Nest custom post types under pages in the Wordpress hierarchy.

A complete step-by-step beginner’s guide on how to make the best possible WordPress blog – from start to finish, and with no steps skipped! (2017 Edition)

WordPress: Sort an array of post objects by any property, remove duplicates, and use post ids as the key in the returned array.

WordPress developers use action hooks in their template files. These help to keep a clear overview of the individual files, as well as the used functions.

If the WordPress Importer isn't importing attachments it might be because you are not exporting All Statuses. Read more to find out why.

Plugins and themes can amass large amounts of autoloaded data in the wp_options table, which slows down your site. Find out how to clean up your database.

The default WordPress search engine is rather average, but with a few bits of code, you can improve it a lot. Find out how to improve WordPress search.

Reaching an international audience or a diverse community that speaks multiple languages is now available to almost any type of business and can have a positive impact on your website traffic and r…

Custom fields is a way for WordPress to store arbitrary extra data for content (posts and custom post types), such as author name, published date for a boo

Learn how to modify a CPT after it's been registered!

Get an array of values from an ACF repeater sub-field choice box to use further in your code. So in the sap_colors sub-field above I want to capture the red,blue and green values into an array and hav…

We have always recommended that the “standard” WordPress user installs Jetpack. However, over the past 12 months it has been getting more and more bloated and causing more problems than it solves. the…

Adding a custom knowledge base to your website can boost your SEO rankings by proving your industry authority. It also serves as a self-help section.

<?php /** * Use the built-in post counter * * Sometimes you'll want to keep track of which post you're on in a loop. * Some people create their own $loop_counter (ex: Genesis, https://gist.github.com/…

The motivation behind this article is this Twitter conversation. Looking to have some links at the left which when clicked load the corresponding content on the right side w/o loading the full page? H…

A WordPress customer database enables you to keep track of client information efficiently. In this article, we'll teach you how to create your own!

One controversial design decision in the WordPress REST API was to have a separate route for each post type. Some people disagreed as combining multiple post types in one route would have been very us…

Have you ever built a treehouse? Where did you start? Did you have a plan or did you just start nailing boards to a tree? My first tree house started out when I nailed some boards to a tree, so I coul…

Looking for a way to add the very popular "shop the post" widgets to your WordPress or Blogger site? Get all the details right here and monetize your posts.

With these step-by-step instructions, use Google News to customize an RSS feed that will scour the news for any subject you are interested in finding.

How I stopped WordPress brute force attacks on my servers