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Tips for Maintaining a Legacy WordPress Website
One of the best ways to measure how far technology has come is to use a legacy product. It’s true of devices like computers and smartphones. And it also applies to websites as well. For instance,...
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Tips to Help You Power Through Projects with the WordPress Gutenberg Block...
When building a website, it’s important to find efficiencies wherever you can. Those little tricks that save you time without sacrificing quality are always welcome. The WordPress Gutenberg block...
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How a Custom WordPress Plugin Can Help You Manage a Website
Whether you’re a WordPress user or build websites for a living, it’s likely you’ve relied on a few plugins along the way. These additional pieces of software enable the content management system (CMS)...
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How to Run a Stable, Secure and Successful WooCommerce Website
WooCommerce has become the de facto solution for running an ecommerce website with WordPress. This is especially so since Automattic (the company of WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg) took over the...
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An Easy Way to Edit Block Visibility in the WordPress Gutenberg Editor
As more WordPress websites are built using the Gutenberg block editor, the wish list for new features grows along with it. That makes sense, as heavier usage tends to expose any shortcomings or...
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5 Cool Things You Can Do with a Local Install of WordPress
Running a copy of WordPress on your local machine is a fairly simple process (we have some helpful information on doing this). But you may be wondering about the actual benefits of doing so. Our...
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Building Client-Proof WordPress Websites
Handing off a new WordPress website to a client offers a great feeling of satisfaction. You provide a pixel-perfect rendering of a brand’s online presence and hope it plays a key role in a company’s...
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How To Create Custom Blocks for Gutenberg with Block Lab
Of all the amazing things the new block editor (aka Gutenberg) for WordPress can do, the ability to create custom blocks is right at the top of the list. This feature allows developers to tightly...
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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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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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The WordPress Widgets Screen Joins the Gutenberg Era
Longtime users of WordPress have seen lots of UI changes over the years. It’s become sleeker, more accessible, and consistent. You can see the difference on virtually every screen. Yet, one area that...
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Things You Should Know Before Customizing WordPress
WordPress is known for its incredible versatility. The content management system (CMS) provides developers with many ways to customize both the front and back ends. This opens a whole world of...
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Many Plugins, Many Styles: Creating a Consistent User Experience with WordPress
Adding WordPress plugins to your website can bring all sorts of wonderful functionality. Whether it’s a big-ticket item like a shopping cart or a smaller enhancement such as a related posts widget,...
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Tips for Building Online Courses with WordPress
Creating online courses has never been easier. Thanks to content management systems (CMS) such as WordPress, along with the plethora of available plugins, developers can build courses to fit every...
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Tips for Improving the Core Web Vitals of Your WordPress Website
Google has a way of creating a wave of panic among both web designers and website owners. When they make a change to their search algorithm, people start scrambling to catch up. It’s easy to understand...
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An Introduction to the WordPress theme.json File
As the WordPress Gutenberg block editor has evolved, theme developers have been encouraged to integrate it into their work. But in some ways, the editor itself is still a work in progress. That has led...
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The Power of Automating WordPress
I like to think of the typical WordPress website as a collection of parts. Themes, plugins, and custom code can be combined to power virtually any type of site. But, in most cases, these various pieces...
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Tips for Running a WordPress Multisite Network
The concept behind WordPress Multisite is simple: it gives you the ability to run multiple websites – all from a single installation of the popular content management system (CMS). Whether your...
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An Introduction to WordPress Block Themes
The components that make up a typical WordPress theme haven’t changed much over the years. So much so that project co-founder Matt Mullenweg quipped that the old school Kubrick theme (released in 2005)...
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Scenarios Where the WordPress Gutenberg Block Editor Replaces Custom Code
Extensibility has long been one of the strengths of WordPress. If there’s something the content management system (CMS) doesn’t do out-of-the-box, you can write code or install a plugin to enable it....
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