It’s easy to get lost with so many options for hosting your website. You have quite a lot to choose from! How much should you pay? Is support important to you, or are you a tinkerer who likes to do your own thing? Hopefully, reading this article will help you have a clearer picture of the different packages available, and you will be able to make a decision based on your website, requirements and budget!
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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.
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WordPress has released the first release candidate for the upcoming 4.0 version. According to the official version numbering, and a new major release is always a cause for excitement! Since Daniel Pataki has always used WordPress in English, it took him a while to realize how important internationalization is. Version 4.0 makes it much easier to get WordPress to speak your language. In fact, the first installation screen asks you to choose your native tongue. Let’s take a look at the new features the team at WordPress has been working on for us!
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According to a 2009 study, 47% of visitors expect a page to load in under 2 seconds, and 57% of visitors will abandon a page that takes more than 3 seconds to load. Mobile Internet usage is expected to overtake desktop usage. This shift towards Internet-enabled mobile devices means that having a fast website has never been as important as it is today. Users now expect websites to be lightening fast, and developers who don’t comply will ultimately lose out to developers who invest in delivering a great experience.
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Unfortunately your website will never be completely unhackable. It’s crucial to take preventive measures and regularly improve your website’s security, but responding accordingly if your website does get hacked is equally important. In this article, Daniel Kanchev will provide a simple seven-step disaster-recovery plan for WordPress, which you can follow in case of an emergency. He’ll illustrate it with a real hack and specific commands that you can use when analyzing and cleaning the website.
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Installing security plugins is a good practice and a must for every WordPress website. However, if your file-system permissions aren’t set up correctly, most of your security measures could be easily bypassed by intruders. In this article, Benjamin Intal will teach you all about WordPress filesystem permissions and ownership: what they are, why they are important and how to set them up. He will also cover the two most common WordPress server configurations (how they differ and how to set the proper permissions and ownership for each).
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People recommend various tips on optimizing WordPress’ performance. All of them are effective ways, however, be careful when implementing any of these techniques. In this article, Hristo Pandjarov will cover some of the most common issues with various speed boosters that he has encountered and share solutions to help you fix those problems or find ways around them.
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WordPress powers websites for some of the world’s largest companies and is even being promoted as a platform to power the next generation of Web apps. In this article, David Smith will share with you how his team has used the PHP dependency-management tool Composer to streamline their development processes and to maintain their WordPress project dependencies across the development team consistently and reliably.
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In this article, Alex Moss interviews Mike Little and Matt Mullenweg, the co-founders of WordPress. Their contributions to WordPress have enabled people like Alex to make a living from this community-based open-source platform. Thanks Matt and Mike for taking the time to conduct these interviews!
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In this article, you’ll look how to modify admin post lists with WordPress. Daniel Pataki will focus on how to extend existing tables. You’ll do this using an example from a theme that he and his team recently built, named Rock Band. Rock Band includes event management, which means that they needed some custom event-specific interface elements and details to make the admin section more useful!
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