April 27, 2018 — Is there a better way to make direct changes to your WordPress website? Yes, there is! In this article, Nick Schäferhoff will show you local WordPress development. You will learn about the benefits of building a local WordPress development environment, how to set one up and how to move your local site to the web when it’s ready. Learning how to install WordPress locally is super useful. It enables you to make site changes, run updates, test themes and plugins and more in a risk-free environment (and it’s free thanks to open source software). Read more…

March 14, 2018 — Extensible plugins are really awesome and give us room for a lot of customization possibilities. Imagine if you were the developer of this plugin. What would you do if a user asked for some particular functionality? Just when you thought you’ve finally found a plugin that does everything you need, there’s still that one tiny important thing it can’t do. In this article, Benjamin Intal will show you how to make your plugin extensible and reduce headache. Read more…

February 23, 2018 — It’s a well-known fact that it’s not easy for WP websites to implement code-splitting through Webpack. In this article, Leonardo Losoviz takes things into his own hands and implements his own version of code-splitting for an open-source framework named PoP. He will analyze the performance of a website with and without code-splitting, and the benefits and downsides of using a custom implementation over an external bundler. We hope you enjoy the ride! Read more…

February 14, 2018 — Migrating to or from multisite is hard. In this article, Nícholas André simplifies the whole migration process by reducing the endeavor to a couple of CLI commands. The WordPress Importer works reasonably well for smaller, simpler sites, but leaves room for improvement. The MU-Migration tool, a WP-CLI command that helps developers migrate sites to or between multisite instances. Multisite migrations have various technical complexities, and this tool can help alleviate them. Read more…

December 1, 2017 — How do you get insight into all of your content at a glance? WordPress’ admin area does not show you much about your pages, posts, users and comments. In this article, David Mosterd and Jesper van Engelen will demonstrate some simple custom solutions and a ready-to-deploy plugin to overcome this problem. In this tutorial, they’ll tackle this problem by showing you some easy-to-implement custom code. For those of you who don’t want to code, they’ll show you how to configure the Admin Columns plugin to do the job for you. Read more…

October 11, 2017 — In this article, Leonardo Losoviz will share his experience with implementing service workers for PoP, an SPA website that runs on WordPresss. SPAs greatly enhance service workers, such as enabling you to choose from different appshells to load during runtime. Integrating with WordPress is not all that smooth, but it’s worth doing: the website will load faster and will work offline. Read more…

August 28, 2014 — If you use custom post types in WordPress, you might need to organize them like categories and tags. Categories and tags are examples of taxonomies, and WordPress allows you to create as many custom taxonomies as you want. In this article, Josh Pollock will explain custom taxonomies and how to create them. He’ll also go over which template files in a WordPress theme control the archives of built-in and custom taxonomies, and some advanced techniques for customizing the behavior of taxonomy archives. Read more…