How to Display Content Based on WordPress User Roles
When building a WordPress website, it’s often useful to provide content or functionality based on a user’s role or capabilities. For example, you may want to display some special content on your site –...
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How to Add SSL to Your WordPress Website
With security continuing to be a primary concern for all involved, utilizing SSL on a WordPress website is becoming more common every day. In fact, according to Matt Mullenweg’s annual “State of the...
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Ideas for Making the WordPress Back End More User Friendly
Building a website with WordPress for your clients opens them up to a whole new world of possibilities. Just about any sort of functionality they need can be installed with a few clicks. But, when it...
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How to Use WordPress Custom Fields
Custom Fields are one of those features inside WordPress that not everyone is fully aware of. While they’ve been around for awhile, they aren’t really screaming "use me" out of a standard install of...
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How to Troubleshoot WordPress Website Email Issues
It seems inevitable. Emails generated from a WordPress website stop arriving – or get thrown into a spam folder. Email, as a certain grumpy designer once said, is the worst. Still, these messages can...
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When Does Using Headless WordPress Make Sense?
There’s a lot of talk these days about using headless WordPress. For the uninitiated, it’s the practice of utilizing a WordPress back end to feed content to an outside application. That might be a...
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How to Create a Simple Gutenberg Block Pattern in WordPress
As the WordPress Gutenberg block editor evolves, new features are being added to make content creation easier. And block patterns may just be the most exciting addition for both web designers and their...
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How to Speed up Google Fonts in WordPress
Today, I’m going to cover a few methods for optimizing and speeding up Google Fonts in WordPress. Images, of course, are and always will be the heaviest part of a web page, but according to HTTP...
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How to Avoid Common WordPress Theme Development Mistakes
WordPress is known for being incredibly flexible, especially when it comes to theme and plugin development. If you ever want to see proof, just ask a group of developers how they’d implement a specific...
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5 Things to Tell Your Clients About WordPress Security
Building and securing a WordPress website is always a challenge. Developers take great care to write solid code and implement features such as security plugins to mitigate the inevitable attacks. Even...
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How to Deal With Outdated WordPress Plugins
WordPress has been around for nearly a decade and a half. While that’s a pretty good run in terms of longevity, it also means that there are probably some websites still around from its earlier days....
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Signs Your WordPress Website Has Outgrown Its Hosting
Among the reasons so many people choose WordPress is that it can run on just about any web server. The requirements are fairly basic and something that most web hosts and local servers can handle. But...
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How to Update WordPress Themes and Plugins with a ZIP File
When updating a WordPress theme or plugin, we’ve long had two choices. Either manually upload the updated files via FTP or install the update within the WordPress dashboard. In general, both of these...
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Diving into WordPress Custom Post Types and Taxonomies
The ability to organize content is one of the most important functions of a content management system (CMS). It offers us a way to clearly define what belongs where. This impacts everyone from content...
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When Do You Need a Custom WordPress Gutenberg Block?
The WordPress Gutenberg block editor empowers web developers to build a custom content creation experience. Through the use of custom blocks, it’s possible to add just about any sort of layout or...
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How to Use WordPress Custom Fields
Custom Fields are one of those features inside WordPress that not everyone is fully aware of. While they’ve been around for awhile, they aren’t really screaming "use me" out of a standard install of...
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How to Add SSL to Your WordPress Website
With security continuing to be a primary concern for all involved, utilizing SSL on a WordPress website is becoming more common every day. In fact, according to Matt Mullenweg’s annual “State of the...
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The Challenge of Switching from a Page Builder to the WordPress Gutenberg...
The time has come. The WordPress Gutenberg block editor has become reliable enough to power your existing website. You can now eschew that aged page builder plugin in favor of a native content editor....
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An Early Look at Full Site Editing in WordPress
Here’s an existential question for web developers: How much separation should there be between a website’s content management system (CMS) and its design? For a lot of the DIY services out there (Wix,...
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Create a Local WordPress Development Environment for Free with DevKinsta...
Having a local development environment for WordPress websites is incredibly useful. It allows you to design, develop and experiment with projects – all on your own computer. This is both a powerful and...
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