If you’ve ever delved under the hood of a WordPress theme, you’ll know that it contains four kinds of files: the stylesheet, the functions file, a number of template parts, and one or (most likely) more template files. For a theme to work, it must have at least two files: the stylesheet and an index.php...
Excerpts are vital for your WordPress posts. They’re a short snippet from your posts that you can display on your homepage or elsewhere. The more fine-tuned the excerpt, the faster your site can load. Plus, your SEO can improve, and the snippet can be the clincher to entice users to read your article. All of...
Learning CSS can be overwhelming, especially when you don’t know where to start and what terms to search for when you get stuck. Since CSS is a styling language and not a full-on programming language like Javascript or PHP, it’s actually fairly simple to learn, especially if you have some HTML knowledge under your belt (which...
Fine-tuning how your WordPress site looks on the front-end is faster and easier – not to mention more satisfying – when you can see your changes live as you make them. And the best way to live edit CSS is, of course, with a plugin. Custom CSS plugins are plentiful in the WordPress Plugin Directory....
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet …. Shall I continue? Many of you may know the phrase above well. For those of you who don’t, don’t worry. Even those who know the phrase couldn’t tell you exactly what it means because it doesn’t really mean anything. Often referred to as dummy content, filler text, or simply...
Imagine with me for a moment that you’re a hacker looking for ways to hijack reputable websites and use them to funnel unsuspecting traffic to a nefarious phishing scam. How would you target websites for maximum impact? One option would be to locate and target a single vulnerability that affects hundreds or thousands of sites....
Use New Relic with WPMU DEV hosting to identify and quickly tackle any performance issues on your WordPress site. New Relic is a service that hones in on performance and availability monitoring for WordPress. And one of the best perks about it is — it’s free! With New Relic, you can immediately comprehend application performance...
