WordPress has become the most widely used blogging platform in the world, estimated to be used on a quarter of a billion websites online today. WordPress works as a blog, but also as a straightforward content management system, ready to use with search-engine-friendly URLs and fully valid HTML and CSS. With so many sites using WordPress and only about 1,200 themes listed on WordPress.org, there are inevitably lots of sites ...
The mobile web is growing exponentially. If your website doesn't support mobile phones and tablets now, you can guarantee it'll become increasingly important over the coming years. But what if you own one of the 13 million sites running on WordPress? I recently required a plugin which: worked on WordPress 3.1 could be used without registration could be installed on a development server offered mobile device detection as well as custom themes ...
I have rose-tinted memories of CSS2.1. Rounded corners may have caused hours of Photoshopping grief, but it was simple. Most developers could recall the few dozen properties without referring to reference books every two minutes. CSS3 changes everything. There are 116 new properties* with multiple vendor prefixes and different syntaxes. No one could be expect you to memorize everything. Fortunately, there are a number on free online tools which will help ...
WordPress can save developers weeks of effort. It's difficult to justify writing your own CMS when it offers so many features. That said, there are times when you want to inject your own PHP code; perhaps a custom form or a report generated by another system. To insert your code on every WordPress page or post, you can simply add a PHP include() function to page.php or single.php ...
Widgets are small pieces of content that can be placed in one of the widgetized regions of your WordPress theme. A widget may contain some simple static content like a newsletter subscription form, introductory text, advertisements or some dynamic content such as a list of recent tweets from your Twitter account. In this article you will learn: How to create simple widgets without coding using the Text widget. How to ...
You've created a massive site using WordPress—but all in pages, not posts. Should you be worried for your continued SEO happiness? In other words, does WordPress ping when you create a page, or just a post? And for that matter, do page/post edits send out a ping? Let's dig into WordPress and find out. Ping, Ping, Post and Page For those not familiar with WordPress, here's some ...