User roles and capabilities are extremely powerful tools in WordPress. In this article, you’ll learn everything you need to utilize user roles in WordPress and make the most of this incredible built-in functionality.
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Siobhan McKeown spoke with the developers behind some of the biggest WordPress blogs on the planet. Now, she shares their secrets with you.
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A top WordPress developer moves far beyond the basics, and pushes the very boundaries of what is possible. They innovate, contribute to the community, and demonstrate mastery in the work they do. In this post, Jonathen Wold wants you to have some tips to become one of the best WordPress developers.
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Shane Pearlman thinks WordPress is losing its way. Read this post to understand why he thinks a WordPress human interface guidelines would be helpful.
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As iOS, Android, and Windows 8 take the Web to smaller screens, designers are adopting techniques to make their websites usable on handheld devices.
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Today, we’ll delve into the gaping maw of knowledge that is the standards and practices of WordPress coding. By the end of this article, you should be familiar with the guidelines and the underlying approach. With some practice, you will be able to adhere to the rules and make educated guesses about the less regulated corners of the specifications.
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In this article, we’ll look at writing documentation for a WordPress plugin, theme or product. Most of the information can be applied to documentation for other software types, but we’ll look at some WordPress-specific aspects. In my experience, the quality of documentation in WordPress plugins and themes varies widely.
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WordPress businesses are springing up all of the time. Some of them succeed, some of them fail, and some of them go global. Last month, I wrote a post on Smashing Magazine about the thriving WordPress economy.
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In this article, we take a break from some of the more advanced ways to customize WordPress, and share some super-easy customization techniques for the WordPress Admin area.\n\nIf you’re just getting started with WordPress, or have been running with default functionality for a while and now want to dig in with some useful and easy ways to customize your WordPress site, a great place to start is the WordPress Admin area, or backend. One of the great things about WordPress is that each part of the backend is easily customized using simple PHP functions.
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