Last year we featured a series on translating different aspects of WordPress, which focused on internationalizing an existing theme or plugin. In today’s post, we’re going to extend and complement that series with some information for theme and plugins developers, namely how to localize your theme or plugin or it’s ready to translate. We’ll take a look at...
WordPress themes can be fantastic but there are so many examples of little things we all want to change. A color here, a font size there, perhaps use a different call to action on the buttons? The problem is that modifying a theme even slightly prevents you from updating it to a newer version in...
Creating child pages in WordPress is simple to do. The only problem is, creating a child page doesn’t do anything for the front end of your blog and your viewers. You can’t just easily check a box or two and display child pages automatically on the parent page. This leaves your homepage, well… childless. Read...
When I think about some of my favorite experiences with companies, there’s one common thread that ties them all together: trust. Without trust, I don’t know that I could ever relax enough to allow an online company to provide me with a product or service. Maybe that’s just me, though I think a lot of...
There is hardly a shortage of WordPress gallery plugins right now. They all offer features that enhance the display of images on your site, from adding lightboxes to enabling 3D displays. However, with choice comes confusion, so in this post we’re going to take a closer look at 10 free options that give professional results...
Plugin authors devote so much time and energy into the main functionality of their products, that they allow less important stuff to fall by the wayside. Take activation and deactivation, for example. While activation hooks are widespread – many plugins need to add some options, flush rewrite rules, maybe create a database table, or check for version...
When you think about making WordPress more useful, the dashboard probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. However, if you spend a lot of time logged into /wp-admin/ but have never taken the time to customize your experience, you can almost certainly get more out of it than you’re getting right now. If...
