Homepage sliders for your WordPress site can be an attractive — and effective — option to include. Here are some themes that have them included — for free! We’ll be going over the available ones from the WordPress Themes depository. All of these are updated and some have great reviews. The ones we’ll be covering...
The standard menu in WordPress, while powerful and easy to add onto almost any theme, leaves a bit to be desired when it comes to styling. Not to mention, the built-in WordPress menu classes can be quite confusing. There’s menu-item-type-taxonomy, current-menu-parent, current-menu-ancestor, and a whole bunch of other confusion selectors you can choose from to...
When people go looking for YouTube WordPress plugins, the truth is that most will either be looking for a player or a gallery plugin. But there are a number of other interesting YouTube plugins out there that you may want as well. In this post, we’re going to look at 10 of them. They will...
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...
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...
Press This is a content sharing tool for WordPress that makes it easy for you to clip text, images and videos from other websites and publish them on your blog. Originally included as part of WordPress core until version 4.9, the Press This feature went through several overhauls until it was turned into an official...
If you manage a WordPress site or even several for clients, beefing up the overall security of a site is a no-brainer. Most users know how to strengthen passwords, but a tougher way to crack down on phishing and brute force is two-step authentication. Two-factor authentication for logging into WordPress means that you don’t have to...
