WordPress Twenty Sixteen theme is actively used on over 1,500 sites hosted by WPMU DEV. This guide looks at the theme that has been described as “a modernized approach of an ever-popular layout.” Yes, it’s a blog theme. With its horizontal header and optional right sidebar, it’s reminiscent of the Twenty Ten theme. But while...
Engaging your visitors is vital to growing your audience, and enabling comments is one way to help you achieve this. There are many comment plugins out there which integrate with many social media sites, but one of the most popular commenting options available is Disqus. It offers many impressive features, such as active logins for an extended period and...
Here at WPMU DEV, we use the word “WordPress” a lot (for obvious reasons!). And when we do mention “WordPress” (there I go again!), I think it’s safe to say that most readers understand that we’re talking about WordPress.org, the self-hosted content management system. If you’re brand spanking new to WordPress, however, you may not...
Site usability should be one of your top considerations when building or maintaining a website. If your website is difficult to use, people will be discouraged from using it—or ever coming back. Furthermore, in many cases, good usability directly translates to better results when it comes to SEO. Some of the hallmarks of good website...
TwentyTen child themes have been popping up everywhere and many theme designers are offering them for free. One strong benefit of using TwentyTen as a parent theme is that you’ll always be able to update the basic framework without breaking your design. Check out a few of the free child themes listed here to see...
One of the best things about WordPress is how easy it is to make sweeping changes to a website in just a few minutes. But with no easy way to revert a website to a previous state, you can lose a lot of work very quickly if you aren’t careful. VersionPress brings the power of...
Build tools are an essential part of every developer’s toolkit that lets you focus on efficient development without getting caught up in the small details that can distract you from the code at hand. One such popular build tool is Grunt. We recently looked at how to use Gulp for WordPress development. Gulp is a...
