How many people would you hand your house keys to and let get into anything that they want? The same can be said about your WordPress account and its users. In this article, we explore some of the easiest ways to limit access for WP users using the admin, code, and plugins. If you considered...
Contact Form 7 is an incredibly popular plugin for building WordPress contact forms with over 3 million active installs. It supports the building of forms without HTML coding. Forms can include CAPTCHAs, file upload, and quiz fields. While Contact Form 7’s default markup and style are fine for most basic contact forms, often you’ll want...
WordPress provides incredible support for you to work with form submissions in your application. Whether you add a form in the admin or public facing areas, the built-in mechanism with the admin-post and admin-ajax scripts will allow you to handle your form requests efficiently. In this article, I’ll show you how to handle custom form...
Featuring video on your site can be a powerful way to show – and not just tell – visitors what your site is all about. Videos. They’re everywhere. Whether it be on a website, app, social media, or YouTube. They grab our attention, make us watch, and we get hooked. So yes — featuring a...
Thanks to the open source nature of WordPress, anyone – including hackers – can look up the typical file structure of a WordPress website and know exactly where to start an attack. Fortunately, rearranging your core WordPress file structure is one method you can employ from your security arsenal to combat hacks and bolster your...
The WordPress login page isn’t very welcoming, is it? It’s more like a boring door in an alley than spectacular pearly gates. But how you initiate users into the secret part of your site matters, especially if you have something special in there. The portal through which people enter your world helps build anticipation and...
Let’s face it, writing emails is not fun. It’s time-consuming, requires rewrites, and proofreading. As a developer or freelancer, you’ve got more important things to be doing. So here’s some copy-paste templates to make your life easier. As someone who runs a web development business, you probably send emails daily. Which means you might spend...
