WooCommerce has become the most installed eCommerce platform since Automattic purchased it in 2015. Are there any alternatives that even compare to WooCommerce? Let’s find out… One of my favorite things about WordPress is when you find a reliable theme or plugin developer, you realize that the search for high-quality website-building tools is over. The...
Branda is the ultimate tool for white labeling the front and back-end of your WordPress site. One of the many tricks up her sleeve is the ability to create custom login pages to ensure that every inch of your site is true to your brand. If you have a beautiful and well-polished website, it makes...
Creating WordPress Theme Options With the Theme Customization API is easy to do. This article shows you how it’s done. The WordPress Theme Customization API was released with WordPress 3.4, back in 2012. It promised developers a standardized way of adding rich options themes, and users a way of tweaking their website in a, well,...
In WordPress, if you would like to make your category archives different from each other (for example, giving them different styles or including different types of information on each), then it’s pretty easily done. You will only need to make a new category template file for the categories you would like to change. How to...
If you ever have the need to display the name of your current category without a link, the following code will let you do that. <?php foreach((get_the_category()) as $category) { echo $category->cat_name . ‘ ‘; } ?> You will need to insert this in your theme’s files in the appropriate place. Get WordPress Category Name...
From time to time, as crazy as it seems, I come across a WordPress site that has no search box. Sometimes it seems to be because the theme itself never included one. But sometimes it seems that the site’s developer just didn’t want one. When you come across a situation like that, there are two...
One of main reasons that BuddyPress communities fail is because members don’t connect and interact with each other. One way to improve that is through design that keeps members interested. The BuddyPress member directory styles come out of the box looking like a flat list. It is functional but it isn’t terribly exciting or inspiring....
