Copying multiple files to the WordPress media library is easy enough. However, copying hundreds to your website is another story. Unfortunately, you can’t just simply copy files into the Uploads folders in your WordPress directory. While the files will appear in your folder, they will not appear in your media library. WordPress does not recognize...
As the vast majority of you are no doubt aware, WordPress is an open source development platform. In practical terms, this means one thing – you can have a hand in maintaining the world’s most popular content management system. Sounds pretty cool, right? However, there is a flip side to this – WordPress lives and dies...
Quick Tip: When working with BuddyPress, bp-custom.php is a file that you create for all of your custom BuddyPress code. It gets loaded with all the rest of BuddyPress automatically during each page load. This file belongs in wp-content/plugins, not wp-content/plugins/buddypress. That can be confusing and may cost you some time if you’ve uploaded your...
Have you ever been at a party and heard someone (who’s probably had a few too many) blurt out that WordPress isn’t an actual CMS, and you then get incensed (probably because you’ve had a few too many too!) and an overwhelming need to step in and defend WordPress kicks in and other partygoers have...
For many of us, our first experience of coding for WordPress is when we write our first theme. After all, every WordPress site needs a theme, and if you want something bespoke then it makes sense to code it yourself. When I started out with WordPress in 2010, I’d never worked with a content management...
With the explosive growth of connected devices and only so many IP addresses to go around, the internet as we know it could have ground to a halt a few years ago. Fortunately, IPv6 arrived just in time to rescue the World Wide Web. Oct 2020: We tested all the best WordPress hosts! Find out...
It’s here. As of Hummingbird’s latest release (3.0) you can now integrate and control Cloudflare’s powerful APO feature straight from your Hummingbird dashboard. A lot of awesomeness came with Hummingbird 3.0 (check out the full feature list and changelog), including an exciting new integration with Cloudflare’s Automatic Platform Optimization (APO) feature. Why is it a...
