CategoryWordPress

February 8, 2018 — There are a lot of “without-page-refresh” solutions out there, but here’s one you can create with AJAX. In this tutorial, you can learn how to build a simple plugin which will allow readers to send a report without reloading the page. Read more…

February 2, 2018 — What if we could have a WordPress website in which its dynamic content could be exported as static files? Leonardo Losoviz explains how you can combine both worlds: switch to a static site generator without having to abandon WordPress. Read more…

February 1, 2018 — Content marketing is tough, but with the right WP plugins, you can turn your website into a content marketing machine, one that actually performs for your business. Here are some stellar plugins that will ensure your efforts aren’t falling short. Read more…

January 25, 2018 — Before deploying a new plugin in WordPress, it’s a good idea to keep a list of easy-to-misuse functions by your side. Let’s take a closer look at some functions which you can and should use as part of a broader security strategy. Read more…

January 19, 2018 — WordPress is currently fully localized for over 65 languages and offers partial translations for an additional 95 locales. If you haven’t internationalized your WordPress website yet, it’s probably time to do so. Read more…

December 14, 2017 — You really don’t want to spend hours manually testing every part of your WordPress plugin to ensure nothing is broken every time you deploy a new version — do you? In this tutorial, you will learn how to test efficiently with automated testing. Read more…

December 1, 2017 — How do you get insight into all of your content at a glance? WordPress’ admin area does not show you much about your pages, posts, users and comments. We will demonstrate some simple custom solutions and a ready-to-deploy plugin to overcome this problem. Read more…

October 11, 2017 — Through service workers, all framework and application code to output the HTML view can be precached in the browser, thus speeding up both the first meaningful paint and the time to interact. In this article, I will share my experience with implementing service workers for PoP, an SPA website that runs on WordPress, with the goal of speeding up the loading time and providing offline-first capabilities. Read more…

June 7, 2017 — Consumers typically have their own experiences when it comes to web hosting and their own opinions. If you search Google for reviews for any web hosting provider you’ll find dozens of results. Usually, there are a lot more negative reviews than there are positive ones. I thought I would flip that around and share some WordPress hosting challenges from the perspective of the WordPress host and how I frequently solve them. Read more…

April 21, 2017 — Jekyll is gaining popularity as a lightweight alternative to WordPress. It often gets pigeonholed as a tool developers use to build their personal blog. That’s just the tip of the iceberg — it’s capable of so much more! In this article, we’ll take on the role of a web developer building a website for a fictional law firm. WordPress is an obvious choice for a website like this, but is it the only tool we should consider? Let’s look at a completely different way of building a website, using Jekyll. Read more…