Is it time to say goodbye to your WordPress website? Maybe it’s time for a fresh start, or perhaps you want to distance yourself from the kind of content you used to create—whatever your reasons, you probably won’t want your abandoned website hanging around on the Internet forever. In this article, I’ll show you how… Continue reading How to Delete Your WordPress Account or Blog
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How to Make a Fancy Menu Template
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a restaurant menu template in Adobe InDesign. Complete with a luxurious color palette and a vintage style, this fancy menu template is perfect for high-end restaurants or luxury bars. This InDesign menu template, which consists of an A4-sized food menu and A5 drinks… Continue reading How to Make a Fancy Menu Template
Create Multiple WordPress Event Calendars With the Calendarize it! Plugin
Calendarize it! is one of the most feature-rich WordPress calendar plugins that you can find in the market. You can use it to create different types of events like those with a fixed start and end time of a couple of hours, or events that span multiple days. You can also use it to create… Continue reading Create Multiple WordPress Event Calendars With the Calendarize it! Plugin
Show an Event Calendar With a Free WordPress Calendar Plugin
Many businesses need to share event calendars with customers. For example, a restaurant can use an event calendar to advertise special musical events, or holiday menus. Similarly, schools can use event calendars on their websites to let students and teachers know about any upcoming activities in school related to sports, exams or other events. Event… Continue reading Show an Event Calendar With a Free WordPress Calendar Plugin
How to Add Sound to Your Site, Without Infuriating Users
Once in a while, every professional comes across a challenge so great, so ridiculous, that they just can’t help themselves. They just have to go for it. It’s like the story of David and Goliath… if David was just bored and Goliath wasn’t threatening his entire nation. As for me, I’m about to argue for… Continue reading How to Add Sound to Your Site, Without Infuriating Users
How to Add the Sticky HTML5 WordPress Music Player to Your Site
There are a lot of reasons why you might want to add a music or audio player to your WordPress website. You can use it to allow users to play the audio version of the article they are reading or you can use it to simply add some nice background music to the website. If… Continue reading How to Add the Sticky HTML5 WordPress Music Player to Your Site
How to Add an Appointment Booking Calendar With a WordPress Plugin
The internet has revolutionized many services that before were tedious or time-consuming. Booking an appointment is a great example. Booking online not only saves time for the user but also the service provider. An appointment booking plugin makes it easy to manage their visitors, appointments and schedules in a well-organized manner. Business such as salons,… Continue reading How to Add an Appointment Booking Calendar With a WordPress Plugin
How to Use Popups Without Damaging User Experience
Website owners/designers/developers are always looking for the best strategies to convert new leads into loyal customers, and popups are one of the most effective ways to catch your audience’s attention. Unfortunately, popups can be intrusive and often turn users away. As per a study by HubSpot, popups are one of the three most disliked forms… Continue reading How to Use Popups Without Damaging User Experience
Create an Online Community for Your WordPress Site With UserPro
When you think of social websites, chances are that social networks such as Facebook immediately spring to mind, but the ability to create a profile and connect with other users can be a valuable addition to many different websites. Imagine you’ve created a website for your business; you could use social features to build an… Continue reading Create an Online Community for Your WordPress Site With UserPro
How To Build Your First Business Website: 5 Tips Nobody Told You About
As harsh as it may sound, it is pretty much safe to say that nowadays, if your business is not online, it basically does not exist. That is because most people go online, before choosing a product or a service. Essentially, no matter how small your business is, we strongly recommend you to build a… Continue reading How To Build Your First Business Website: 5 Tips Nobody Told You About
How to Create a WordPress Child Theme
If you’re using a theme you downloaded from the free WordPress theme repository, or maybe one you’ve bought from ThemeForest, you may want to make some tweaks to it. Maybe you want to register a new font or add a new template file. Maybe you want to add some code from one of the tutorials or… Continue reading How to Create a WordPress Child Theme
How to Make a Purchase Icon in Adobe Illustrator
What You’ll Be Creating Love icon design? If so, follow this tutorial and learn how to make a minimal purchase icon in three different versions. We will use only basic shapes, and with the help of the Align options and the Pathfinder options, we will build these icons step by step. By the end of… Continue reading How to Make a Purchase Icon in Adobe Illustrator
How to Create an eBook in Adobe InDesign
What You’ll Be Creating Ever wanted to easily convert your InDesign layouts to eBooks? With the right know-how, it’s super-simple to do. In this tutorial we’ll look at three different ways you can quickly turn your designs into interactive PDFs or EPUBs, ready for sharing or selling online. There are a few different eBook formats… Continue reading How to Create an eBook in Adobe InDesign
20 WordPress Video Plugins and Players to Add Engagement
Video is becoming an increasingly important element of a successful website. It has SEO benefits, increases engagement and the amount of time visitors spend on your site, and will also reflect well on your brand. WordPress lets you add embedded video out of the box, but you can make the process easier and enhance the… Continue reading 20 WordPress Video Plugins and Players to Add Engagement
20 Useful Video Plugins Available on CodeCanyon
What You’ll Be Creating Video is becoming an increasingly important element of a successful website. It has SEO benefits, increases engagement and the amount of time visitors spend on your site, and will also reflect well on your brand. WordPress lets you add embedded video out of the box, but you can make the process… Continue reading 20 Useful Video Plugins Available on CodeCanyon
8 New Ways to Refactor Your Code With Swift 4
Swift is one of the fastest-growing languages in history, due to its elegance, simplicity, and “safety by design”. In fact, Swift’s official mantra is “to make programming simple things easy, and difficult things possible”. In this post, you’ll learn how to use Swift to its fullest by refactoring your code. While a lot of the… Continue reading 8 New Ways to Refactor Your Code With Swift 4
Manipulating Images in PHP Using GD
The internet would be pretty dull without images. However, maintaining and manipulating hundreds or thousands of images for your web site can be a headache. As your site design changes, you might need to modify all your images—for example, you might need to convert all your images to grayscale or resize them to 50% of… Continue reading Manipulating Images in PHP Using GD
Getting Started With Redux: Why Redux?
When you’re learning React, you will almost always hear people say how great Redux is and that you should give it a try. The React ecosystem is growing at a swift pace, and there are so many libraries that you can hook up with React, such as flow, redux, middlewares, mobx, etc. Learning React is easy,… Continue reading Getting Started With Redux: Why Redux?
Beginner’s Guide to Angular: Components
Building single-page applications is an art, with many impressive frameworks to choose from. One of the most intuitive and widely used frameworks for building both web and mobile applications is Angular. Today, Angular 10 is out, and there are many impressive features. However, you need to master components before you dig deep. First Things First:… Continue reading Beginner’s Guide to Angular: Components
Airbnb First Date Concept
Iterations After synthesizing the insights, I re-iterated on the concepts to alleviate the weaknesses and further highlight the strengths. Idea 1: Bingo x Digital Gift Combining Bingo and Digital Gift Exchange Concepts Medium Fidelity Wireframes of Situations Where Their Interests Matched and Don’t After testing, I decided to remove the gamified portion of the concept and replaced it… Continue reading Airbnb First Date Concept
13 Best HTML5 Game Templates of 2023 With Source Code
HTML5 game templates come with ready-to-use designs and functionality. All the time-consuming programming has already been done for you, so you can focus on designing games that are fun to play. Top-Selling HTML5 Game Templates for 2023 on CodeCanyon Grab one of these HTML5 game templates or engines. Whether you already have a game concept… Continue reading 13 Best HTML5 Game Templates of 2023 With Source Code
Quick Tip: Using CSS Counters to Style Incremental Elements
In this quick tip, we’ll cover the very basics of CSS counters; a useful, yet not so well-known CSS feature. When we’re done building our demo, we’ll take a look at some real world examples of sites which take advantage of CSS counters. The Goal: Styling an Ordered List As a first step, let’s look at the… Continue reading Quick Tip: Using CSS Counters to Style Incremental Elements
How to Work With WordPress Comment Metadata
Throughout this series, we’ve looked at a number of the metadata APIs that are offered by WordPress. This includes the Post Meta API and the User Meta API. Today, we’re going to be rounding out the series by looking at the WordPress Comment Meta API. Note that this is that the final metadata API WordPress… Continue reading How to Work With WordPress Comment Metadata
How to Work With WordPress Post Metadata
In the first post in this series, I gave an overview of all of the various types of metadata offered by WordPress, where it’s kept, and what we’re going to be covering throughout this series. Further, I defined what metadata is; its role within WordPress, and how it’s relevant to us as developers. But the… Continue reading How to Work With WordPress Post Metadata