WordPress can be a complex beast for those not yet initiated… luckily a fellow WP dummy (who also happens to be a blog contributor) is on hand to explain WordPress to you in a way that anyone can understand… in 10 minutes max! This is really hard for me, but I have to do it…...
The most strongly recommended practice for having readers confirm their subscription to your newsletter is for them to do so via email. This practice requires subscribers to not only confirm their subscription once but twice! This is a process known as double opt-in. So why on earth would anyone require such a thing? Wouldn’t requiring...
WooCommerce has become the most installed eCommerce platform since Automattic purchased it in 2015. Are there any alternatives that even compare to WooCommerce? Let’s find out… One of my favorite things about WordPress is when you find a reliable theme or plugin developer, you realize that the search for high-quality website-building tools is over. The...
Creating WordPress Theme Options With the Theme Customization API is easy to do. This article shows you how it’s done. The WordPress Theme Customization API was released with WordPress 3.4, back in 2012. It promised developers a standardized way of adding rich options themes, and users a way of tweaking their website in a, well,...
In WordPress, if you would like to make your category archives different from each other (for example, giving them different styles or including different types of information on each), then it’s pretty easily done. You will only need to make a new category template file for the categories you would like to change. How to...
If you ever have the need to display the name of your current category without a link, the following code will let you do that. <?php foreach((get_the_category()) as $category) { echo $category->cat_name . ‘ ‘; } ?> You will need to insert this in your theme’s files in the appropriate place. Get WordPress Category Name...
WordPress.org has so many themes you’re bound to find the perfect one for you. But what if you don’t? What if you find a theme that’s almost perfect but doesn’t have the kind of full width page template you need for your landing or about page – or maybe doesn’t have one at all? Not...
