WordPress Tutorials

Categories are a taxonomy in Wordpress, in other words, it's a way to group like objects together for better organization

Medium is a growing platform, but you should always own your own content. Here's how to cross post to Medium & WordPress properly.

A majority of plugins leave behind tables and rows in your database after you delete them. Check out how to uninstall a WordPress plugin the proper way.

In this quick tutorial, we will learn how to add new filters (dropdowns) to any Post Type screen in order to filter content by custom Taxonomies.

A lot of work goes into creating a WordPress website. Never miss a step again with this exhaustive checklist.

Here are three different methods to pre-populate form fields with Gravity Forms: query strings, shortcodes, and WordPress hooks.

WordPress is currently used by over 30% of all websites and 59% of all content management systems. One of the major concerns that people have when it comes to WordPress is the speed! With the release…

So you’ve built a static website, all is going well, but then it turns out that the client needs a small news section..

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A guide about how to sanitize and validate data in WordPress Theme Customizer properly.

Part of WordPress’ success stems from how easy it is for new developers to contribute to the platform. However, on this type of collaborative project it’s particularly important for coding styles to r…

Are you creating a WordPress theme that you'd like to appeal to the widest possible audience? Learn how to add internationalization to your WordPress theme!

WordPress allows you to translate your sites, themes, plugins, and everything into any language whatsoever. It’s part of what makes it such a global and accessible CMS. To be able to translate WordPre…

Here are five ways you can take a few code snippets and really extend the possibilities that custom post types offer WordPress developers.

The featured snippet here will help you change any piece of text in The Events Calendar and its add-ons. With a little bit of modification, it would even allow you to change the wording of any piece o…

One of the many great uses for the WordPress REST API is improving your plugin or theme settings screens. Once you add custom REST API endpoints, getting saved settings via AJAX and saving it via AJAX…

In this three part tutorial series you'll learn how to extend the default behavior of WordPress page templates, and make them more flexible by adding custom fields to the page editor to directly...

Yoast SEO is a great plugin for optimizing your site for SEO. It is important that your articles are providing the right information to social media when being shared. Facebook uses Open Graph meta ta…

I found a WordPress hook called "edit_form_after_title" to add a text box after the title. How can I use this hook to display the excerpt after the title while creating a new post?

Fixing the Error Establishing a Database Connection issue in WordPress can be tricky as it can have many causes. Learn how to solve it...

Creating an RSVP form for the popular Events Calendar WordPress plugin is easy with the use of Gravity Forms.

If you updated to 4.8 WordPress you'll notice a lot of nice improvements, but there is one thing that was done that I felt was like an artist over-working her painting: changing the Text widget to use…

Copying from Google Docs to WordPress results in all sorts of formatting issues. Check out these 4 tricks to retain formatting and speed up your workflow.

If you are not using Cloudflare's free service then you are missing out one of the easiest ways to speed up and protect your website. Cloudflare offers a Global CDN network of over 115 data centers wo…

IFTTT is a web resource that serves to automate tasks and that can help you to optimize your work in your web or blog with WordPress.

WordPress maintenance mode displays a brief message to your visitors when you run updates. Check out how to fix a stuck maintenance mode and customize it.

Performance is key for high-traffic WordPress sites, and there are two main ingredients for great WordPress performance – caching and profiling. In this short tutorial we’ll focus on profiling, how it…

News aggregation websites are great to get a quick overview of fresh and popular content. Create your own news aggregator site with WordPress.

None of the WordPress migration or backup and restore plugins can handle huge sites reliably – you’ll run into timeout issues etc. Here’s how to migrate your huge sites reliably. The guide below presu…

Widgets are blocks of content that can be added to front-end pages such as sidebars. Follow this tutorial on how to create a WordPress widget from scratch.