The first thing you should do before customizing your WordPress website is to create a child theme. I’ll try to keep it as non-technical as possible, but think about it this way: You install your new shiny WordPress theme, start changing the colors, adding to the functions file, and then your theme updates. If you’re …
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If you find yourself building a large-scale website with WordPress, chances are the requirements are going to go well-beyond standard pages & posts. Custom Post Types make WordPress a true content management system, not just a simple blogging platform. Think of CPT’s as posts, but for any type of content, and the options become limitless. You …
I’ve reviewed 7 of the best contact form plugins for WordPress and found Gravity Forms and Ninja Forms to be the #1 choice(s) for your website. Read why!
Enabling custom post types on your WordPress website is, in my opinion, the first step to going beyond WordPress as a blogging platform. Sure, default WordPress is considered a Content Management System (CMS). You’re managing a collection posts and pages. Further, attached to your posts, you have categories and tags deepening the relationship across your …
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Welcome to PluginTut’s first weekly preview round-up. This week, we preview two plugins that you might find useful for your next WordPress project. In fact, these two might play well together for someone building a more advanced business website, and become part of your everyday WordPress-building toolkit. Let’s dive in!
On any given day, at any given WordCamp, if you asked someone to name WordPress plugin developers, John James Jacoby would show up on 9 out of 10 lists. He’s breathing new life into his WordPress plugins, starting with WP Event Calendar, the best way to mange events in WordPress. Sure, event calendars are as …
Have you ever wanted to setup search filtering on your WordPress e-commerce store that looked like you were browsing Amazon products? You know, the little checkboxes on the left-hand side of the screen that, when clicked, filter down the amount of products shown on the screen. That’s what FacetedWP plugin does for your WordPress website and it …