If you’re building your own themes for WordPress, or using a child theme to customize a third party theme, at some point you’ll come across the template hierarchy. It’s a brilliant system that dictates how WordPress chooses which template file to use for different types of content. It takes into account content types (e.g. posts,...
Widgets make WordPress really flexible. By adding widget areas to your themes, you let users insert their own custom content without having to write a line of code. They’re most common in sidebars and footers, where they’re often used to hold widgets such as the search widget, latest posts widget, or maybe a custom menu....
When building websites and testing plugins and themes, we all need the help of lorem ipsum from time to time to fill out the space. Are you tired of that dusty old Latin text? Now you can replace it with Cupcake Ipsum! Cupcake Ipsum is a new app made for generating yummy cupcake dummy text....
If you would like to show all your WordPress posts on a single page, there are a number of ways you could do that. We’ll go through a few ways below, and you can adopt them or adapt them depending on what you’re looking for. In this post, we’ll cover the following methods: List All...
UI and UX. Are you using these terms interchangeably? User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX) are keywords in the web development space and in arguably every creative and technology-based field. What you may not know is that these terms, as concepts, have actually been around for a very long time. You probably know what...
Ever wanted to jazz up how your posts are displayed on your WordPress home page and archives? What if you could display your posts using the masonry (Pinterest) approach or maybe a grid layout, all just by adding a snippet of CSS? No plugins, shortcodes, template changes, assigning pages as the home page. Just pure CSS. Masonry and...
The internet sure is a social place. It feels like sharing videos, posts, tweets, photos, memes and music has always been the norm. And thanks to oEmbed, the norm is super easy with WordPress. When you share media from an external source and place it on your own site, it’s called embedding and it’s normally...
