In our previous tutorial, we used the History Web API within a static site to serve smooth page transitions. In this tutorial we’re going to take things to the next level, by applying what we learned in a WordPress website. There’ll be one crucial difference; we’ll leverage SmoothState.js instead of building our own from scratch. SmoothState.js will: Request pages asynchronously (AJAX) and… Continue reading How to Integrate SmoothState.js Into a WordPress Theme
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Using Let's Encrypt SSL With Your WordPress Project
What’s Let’s Encrypt? For years, purchasing, renewing, installing and managing SSL certificates overwhelmed me with expense and complexity. Now, Let’s Encrypt makes it fairly simple and free. Let’s Encrypt is an emerging, free, automated, and open certificate authority brought to you by a California public benefit corporation called the Internet Security Research Group—it also has nonprofit status. Its… Continue reading Using Let's Encrypt SSL With Your WordPress Project
Free Course: Create Content in WordPress With Posts and Pages
What You’ll Be Creating WordPress is a powerful and easy-to-use tool for creating websites, but for beginners it can still be a little hard to know where to get started. What’s the best way to fit your content into the WordPress content management system? In our new course, Create Content in WordPress With Posts and… Continue reading Free Course: Create Content in WordPress With Posts and Pages
9 Fresh Free WordPress Themes
ADVERTISEMENT Here, we have come again with yet another exciting and fresh compilation of 9 new and fresh WordPress themes that are all new and eye-catching. The list contains WordPress themes for real estate websites, portfolio websites, WooCommerce, businesses, creative agencies, fashion blogs and more. In addition to huge variety, all the themes are responsive… Continue reading 9 Fresh Free WordPress Themes
20 Useful WordPress WooCommerce Plugins Available on CodeCanyon
WooCommerce is a free plugin that transforms WordPress into a powerful eCommerce solution. This WordPress eCommerce plugin now powers over 37% of all online stores and offers a wide variety of plugins that extend and customize WooCommerce in many different ways. Here are 20 useful WordPress WooCommerce plugins available on Envato Market that are worth your… Continue reading 20 Useful WordPress WooCommerce Plugins Available on CodeCanyon
How to Use Pantheon to Set Up and Maintain a Production-Safe WordPress Site
Today, WordPress powers 25% of all of the world’s websites, so it’s safe to say that what started as blogging software has grown into something much bigger than its humble origins, and is ready to be used on production-level sites from news portals to complete web applications. With this level of professionalism, new needs arise. On a personal blog read by… Continue reading How to Use Pantheon to Set Up and Maintain a Production-Safe WordPress Site
What Multipurpose WordPress Theme Should You Pick?
Posted · Category: Best Collections Most web designers work with a variety of website types, and they prefer multipurpose themes for that reason. This is especially true when they need to deliver websites to multiple clients with different needs. Each of the multipurpose WP themes presented here features pre-designed website or layout selections from which… Continue reading What Multipurpose WordPress Theme Should You Pick?
WordPress Hacker’s Guide to the Galaxy
WordPress is easy for nearly anyone to learn, but that doesn’t mean that all the code you write for it has to be messy. There’s nothing keeping you from leveraging modern programming techniques for your WordPress themes and plugins. Let me show you. https://youtu.be/fcllcGb19oY https://youtu.be/9CsxcEvwx9M https://youtu.be/n744Xe85_88 https://youtu.be/6dPKB7KEK3M https://youtu.be/8gPqPbutKBM https://youtu.be/SuJ946BdSYk
Optimizing Google PageSpeed to 100 in WordPress
What You’ll Be Creating How to Reach a PageSpeed of 100 Welcome to part two of our series on Google PageSpeed. In the first episode, I optimized the PageSpeed of my site’s then theme, MySiteMyWay’s Construct. I managed to get to 70 Mobile and 86 Desktop. However, with MySite’s closure, I chose a new theme and reached… Continue reading Optimizing Google PageSpeed to 100 in WordPress
Hands On Improving Google PageSpeed
What You’ll Be Creating What Is Google PageSpeed? Google PageSpeed is a free tool that assesses the performance and usability of your website for mobile and desktop platforms. It’s extra important because Google uses it in determining key elements of our SEO ranking, i.e. how high we appear in their search results. If you want more background… Continue reading Hands On Improving Google PageSpeed
Kick-Start WordPress Development With Twig: Timber Image, Menu, and User
By now you have read about the basic concepts of using Twig through Timber, while building a modular WordPress theme. We’ve also studied block nesting and multiple inheritance with Twig, based on the DRY principle. Today, we are going to explore how to display attachment images, WordPress menus, and users in a theme with Twig… Continue reading Kick-Start WordPress Development With Twig: Timber Image, Menu, and User
Kick-Start WordPress Development With Twig: Blocks, Nesting, and WP Cheatsheet
In the previous article, I wrote about integrating the Twig templating engine with WordPress through Timber and how developers can send data from the PHP files to the Twig files. Let’s discuss how to create a base template with Twig, the benefits of this DRY technique, and a Timber-Twig WordPress Cheatsheet. Creating a Base Template… Continue reading Kick-Start WordPress Development With Twig: Blocks, Nesting, and WP Cheatsheet
Salient – Responsive Multi-Purpose Theme – 4363266
Extended Feature List Ultra Responsive Design Retina Ready Design Exclusive Nectar Slider AJAX Page Transitions (optional) AJAX Search (optional) Multi Layer Mouse Based Parallax Infinite Scroll option for Blog & Portfolio Multiple Single Post Layouts Classic Look Modern Look Graphically Intuitive Shortcode Generator Tons of unique shortcodes Powerful options for all elements Usable in both… Continue reading Salient – Responsive Multi-Purpose Theme – 4363266
6 Principles for Timeless Web Design
How do you stay relevant when your audience always changes? Just like fashion, film, and food, web design and UI are subject to an ever-changing set of standards and expectations. While you might sometimes want to cater to the crowd, having the know-how to create something that does the job and does it well is always… Continue reading 6 Principles for Timeless Web Design
How to Code Multiple Loops While Only Querying the Database Once
I’m a big fan of the WP_Query class: I use it in many of my client sites to query and output content in custom ways. If you want to run multiple loops on a page, the easiest way to do it is to run WP_Query each time you need to run a loop. But there… Continue reading How to Code Multiple Loops While Only Querying the Database Once
WP REST API: Internals and Customization
In the previous part of the series, we learned about creating, updating, and deleting content remotely through the WP REST API. It allows us to create platform-independent applications that work seamlessly with a WordPress powered back-end, providing a rich experience to the user. In the current part of the series, we will take a look at… Continue reading WP REST API: Internals and Customization
20 Useful WordPress Gallery Plugins
Several WordPress versions ago, putting together an image gallery wasn’t the easiest thing to do, let alone a gallery of videos or products for sale. Today, however, there are many WordPress gallery plugins that are creative, powerful, and highly configurable. Sure, the Jetpack gallery is great in comparison to the early days of WordPress, but… Continue reading 20 Useful WordPress Gallery Plugins
Weekly Inspiration: Comments, Discussion, and Feedback
In this age of content saturation on the web, one opportunity for online publishers to stand out is through their respective communities. The communities which surround and make use of websites are massively important, and how they interact with those websites, and each other, is equally important. We’re used to seeing comment threads on websites;… Continue reading Weekly Inspiration: Comments, Discussion, and Feedback
How to Work With WordPress Term Meta: Term Metadata API
The first post in this series laid the groundwork for understanding taxonomies, terms, and their relationship within the context of WordPress. If you haven’t read it yet and you’re brand new to WordPress development, then I highly recommend reading through it as this post is going to build on top of everything covered in that… Continue reading How to Work With WordPress Term Meta: Term Metadata API
Top Ten New, Free WordPress Themes of April 2016
1 – Activello Activello is the right theme for any private blog, as its design is appealing and tender. It can also be extended to become a shop, as it’s prepared for the popular WooCommerce plugin. Created by: Silkalns License: Free for private and commercial purposes | GNU General Public License Prepared for Language Localization: Yes Demo:… Continue reading Top Ten New, Free WordPress Themes of April 2016
Everything You Need to Know About WordPress Child Themes
A child theme is a set of styling guidelines and/or functions which are utilized to incorporate functionality or replace the appearance of an existing WordPress theme. Child themes can be modified without altering the original code of your theme, allowing you to make changes as small as changing a couple of colors, or as extensive… Continue reading Everything You Need to Know About WordPress Child Themes
11 of The Best Wireframe & Prototype Tools for Planning Your Sites & Apps
A wireframe is essentially a web designer’s plan for a web page. This frame can be hand-drawn with simple pen and paper, but wireframing tools are much more effective as they enable you to use drag-and-drop tools, collaborate with other designers and show clients your ideas before you even build them. The designer uses plain… Continue reading 11 of The Best Wireframe & Prototype Tools for Planning Your Sites & Apps
How to Work With WordPress Term Meta: Understanding Taxonomies
In a recent series, we talked all about how we could work with metadata for several of the major classes in WordPress. This included: Throughout the series, we talked a bit about how WordPress 4.4 introduced the idea of term metadata. I didn’t want to present the concept within the context of that series because… Continue reading How to Work With WordPress Term Meta: Understanding Taxonomies
Personal Creative Portfolio, Blog and CV WordPress Theme
This is a creative WordPress theme for personal blog, review portal, magazine, portfolio, or CV / Vcard, perfect for designers, developers, photographers, fashion and lifestyle bloggers and other professionals who wish to showcase their works. The theme features 4 demo layouts (where you can also replace or remove elements), 4 predefined color schemes (that you… Continue reading Personal Creative Portfolio, Blog and CV WordPress Theme