Have you ever come across a popular WordPress blog that still uses the standard WordPress search widget? If you have, then you have no doubt been frustrated by the results. Seriously – it’s *nearly* as bad as this. For those of you who don’t know, the standard search widget in WordPress returns any post that...
Follow these step-by-step instructions to add and update plugins in the public WordPress Plugin Directory. These essential steps from the video follow below: Getting Started with Your Plugin Register for a WordPress.org Account Request to Put Your New Plugin in the WordPress Plugin Directory Install an SVN Client For Your Machine Choose a Local Directory...
Tabbed sections on a website can be very convenient. They allow you to break up a lot of information and put it into one small space. Readers are less overwhelmed that way and therefore more likely to hang around and check out what you have to offer. The easiest way to get tabbed content in...
When you’re doing social networking the right way for your website it can bring huge amounts of traffic. Social is all about the visuals so if you want to make your content work well you need to use all the right visual cues. But how do you make sure the right imagery – the imagery you...
There’s a WordPress error that’s frustrating to no end because if you’ve come across it, you probably didn’t actually do anything wrong. Still, plastered across your site will be these words: Warning: file_get_contents(path/to/wordpress/file): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /path/to/another/wordpress/file.php on line # The error message itself is almost misleading because...
The WordPress core software is updated regularly and with each new release come new features and security fixes that are designed to ensure your site is as secure as possible and performing at its best. Automatically opting into these updates means they are applied to your site or network as soon as they’re released, which...
If you’re building your own themes for WordPress, or using a child theme to customize a third party theme, at some point you’ll come across the template hierarchy. It’s a brilliant system that dictates how WordPress chooses which template file to use for different types of content. It takes into account content types (e.g. posts,...
