A standard WordPress post contains various amounts of data, such as the post title, categories, keyword tags and a featured image. But did you know that you can add a whole range of meta-data to each post that you can manipulate in any way you like using Custom Fields? What Are Custom Fields? Custom Fields can be used to add additional pieces of information to…
Using modern web technologies such as HTML5, and web API’s, implementing videos into your WordPress website has never been so pain-free. You can transform any standard blog into a fully loaded video website using just a handful of free, hand-picked video plugins. In this article we shall sample a few of these video plugins that can add some form of video functionality to your website.…
jQuery is a collection of web tools, a feature-rich library, written in JavaScript. It was designed to aid in the development of websites. In a lot of cases, using jQuery allows you to access the functions and features of JavaScript much faster, enabling you to write less, but do more. Way back in 2005 jQuery was still just a few snippets of code trying to…
You may have seen advertisements that cover a website’s entire background. These clickable background images are called Takeover Ads as they can literally takeover the entire appearance of a website for maximum exposure. Implementing clickable background advertisements into WordPress themes is a straight-forward process and can be accomplished in no time at all, using just a standard child theme with some simple HTML/CSS modifications. Before…
A Local Environment, also known as a Localhost, is basically an offline web server that you run from your own computer. As it is using files stored on your hard drive, websites as well as all other scripts and software will run much faster than if it were online. This makes it easy to develop websites or software locally and is an essential part of…
You’ve slaved for weeks. You’ve downed endless cups of coffee and maybe even pulled an all-nighter or two. And now your brand new WordPress website is complete. But before you take that site live, just how sure are you that it’s really ready for primetime? The beauty of a pre-launch checklist, in a word, is certainty. When you have a systematized list to go by,…
Sharing content on Twitter is a great way to drive traffic to your site. Yet, the actual Tweet itself doesn’t really provide much information about the content being shared. In best case a standard Tweet would simply contain a small amount of descriptive text written by the user tweeting, a link to the content, a manually uploaded image, and maybe one or two #hashtags or…
As it goes, WordPress is one of the easier-to-use publishing tools available to not only install and configure, but to administer on a daily basis. This doesn’t mean it’s easy. However, after many years of constant development, today’s WordPress is a powerful publishing platform without all of the unnecessary back-end confusion that plagues many other blogging and CMS systems. At the beginning, mastering WordPress may…
Have you enabled Gravatars on your WordPress website? If so, you might want to rethink that decision again. And if you haven’t enabled Gravatars on your website yet, you might want to consider possible alternatives to Gravatar first. Now allow us to explain these thoughts … What are Gravatars for WordPress? What’s the benefit to user avatars? The key disadvantage to using Gravatars Alternatives to…
You may occasionally come across something called Sticky Posts when reading about WordPress. They’re a relatively unattended feature of WordPress and allow you to highlight selected posts by sticking them on top of your latest posts loop. This comes handy to feature particular posts. With some efforts it’s possible to style or handle sticky posts differently to really mix things up when it comes to…
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