Category: Tutorials

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How to Add Custom CSS to Your WordPress Site

The WordPress ecosystem is huge, so it can be a challenge to find the perfect theme to match your brand in every respect. A good starting point is by browsing the thousands of high-quality WordPress themes on ThemeForest.  However, it frequently happens that you find an almost perfect design but you still want to tweak it a little—or… Continue reading How to Add Custom CSS to Your WordPress Site

How Does WordPress Work?

What You’ll Be Creating If you’re new to WordPress, or switching over from a static website, you might want to know exactly how WordPress works. WordPress is a content management system, or CMS. It works by combining some core files, a database, files that you add or install, and a dashboard for Pat to manage… Continue reading How Does WordPress Work?

How to Make a YouTube Profile Picture (Using a YouTube Profile Picture Maker)

YouTube is one of the hottest social media platforms around today, and with so much great content competing for attention, anything you can do to make your account stand out is a win. That’s why you need to make every aspect of your account as eye-catching as you can, starting with your YouTube profile picture.   Today… Continue reading How to Make a YouTube Profile Picture (Using a YouTube Profile Picture Maker)

How to Create an Android App Without Coding

Alternative approaches to Android application development—those that involve writing no code at all or writing only minimal amounts of code—are becoming increasingly feasible today. They are, of course, ideal for non-programmers, but experienced programmers too can use them to save time and effort. In this tutorial, I’m going to talk about two such approaches and… Continue reading How to Create an Android App Without Coding

10 Best WordPress Star Rating Plugins

Star ratings are used by websites to review all kinds of products and services. You can use them to rate pretty much anything your users are interested in: a movie, the food in a restaurant, the quality of service provided by a mechanic, etc. One of the reasons star ratings are so popular is that… Continue reading 10 Best WordPress Star Rating Plugins

How to Create Your First Android App Step-by-Step

To create a native Android app, one that can directly use all the features and functionality available on an Android phone or tablet, you need to use the Android platform’s Java API framework. This is the API that allows you to perform common tasks such as drawing text, shapes, and colors on the screen, playing… Continue reading How to Create Your First Android App Step-by-Step

29 Best Heavy Metal Fonts

Bring the powerful, fast-paced spirit of heavy metal music to your next project when you use metal lettering fonts.  Just one of the many heavy metal fonts you can find at Envato Elements and GraphicRiver Today we look at 29 premium fonts from Envato Elements and GraphicRiver that best capture the heavy metal aesthetic. Check them… Continue reading 29 Best Heavy Metal Fonts

How to Connect PHP to MySQL

Do you want ot learn how to connect php to MySQL and perform different types of database operations? In this article, we’ll do just that—we’ll discuss MySQL database connectivity in PHP. PHP provides different ways to connect PHP to a MySQL database server. Until PHP 5.5, one of the most popular ways was with the… Continue reading How to Connect PHP to MySQL

Created by You, February 2020 Edition

What You’ll Be Creating Welcome back to our monthly feature of wonderful content created by you—the Envato Tuts+ community! There’s a lot of awesome content to see, this month, so let’s dig right in! These works are submissions from the Design & Illustration portion of Envato Tuts+. We love to see what you have created,… Continue reading Created by You, February 2020 Edition

What Makes WordPress a Great Choice for Creating Websites?

If you’re planning on setting up a website for yourself or your business, chances are you’ve come across WordPress. You might be wondering what WordPress is and what sets it apart form other website systems. In this article, you’ll learn what WordPress is, how it compares to other web platforms and what its benefits are.… Continue reading What Makes WordPress a Great Choice for Creating Websites?

How to Use WordPress: A Beginner’s Guide to Getting Started

Step 1: Purchase a Domain Name and Hosting Plan If you want to build a website with WordPress, you have two options: 1. A site hosted on WordPress.com With this model, you add your site to the existing network at WordPress.com and choose the plan that’s right for you. You can get a free site,… Continue reading How to Use WordPress: A Beginner’s Guide to Getting Started

CSS Tips for Better Color and Contrast Accessibility

Color accessibility is an important part of visual accessibility. People with various types of visual impairments, such as color blindness and low vision, perceive colors in different ways. As a result, the meaning of colors becomes less significant or is completely lost for users with visual disabilities. Although most articles on color accessibility give design tips… Continue reading CSS Tips for Better Color and Contrast Accessibility

How to Create a Wanted Poster

What You’ll Be Creating Would you like to see your face on one of these old wanted dead or alive posters? Of course, just for fun! In this tutorial I will show you how to do it using a very simple wanted poster generator. Use a fully customizable wanted poster template to create your own… Continue reading How to Create a Wanted Poster

12 Best CSS Animations on CodeCanyon

In the past few years, browsers have come a long way when it comes to supporting newer CSS properties that allow developers to create nice effects and animations using just pure CSS. There is a lot of browser support for using different transitions and keyframe animations in your projects now. You no longer have to… Continue reading 12 Best CSS Animations on CodeCanyon

What is a WordPress Plugin?

If you’ve been using WordPress for any time at all, you’ll probably have realized that you can get a lot more from it if you install plugins on your site. Plugins are extra bits of code that will add additional functionality to your WordPress site: in other words, they let it do more things. In… Continue reading What is a WordPress Plugin?

20+ Best Chiropractor & Physiotherapy WordPress Themes for 2020

Did you know that as many as 90% of consumers google a local business each year—and 33% say they do so every single day? With stats like these, it’s obvious that setting up and maintaining a quality website is essential in order to give your business every chance of success.  How frequently did consumers search… Continue reading 20+ Best Chiropractor & Physiotherapy WordPress Themes for 2020

10 Best Restaurant App Templates

Whether it’s Android templates, iOS templates, or cross-platform mobile templates, you will find them all on CodeCanyon. Top-Selling Restaurant App Templates for 2020 on CodeCanyon If you are looking for inspiration or you’re building an application and need help with a particular feature, then you may find your answer in some of these templates. In… Continue reading 10 Best Restaurant App Templates

What Is WordPress?

I’ll begin by assuming that you have no prior experience of WordPress whatsoever; I shall start with the basics. In this tutorial, I’ll answer the question: “What is WordPress?”  This video is taken from my course A Beginner’s Guide to WordPress. You can watch the entire course for free here on Envato Tuts+. WordPress WordPress Tutorial:… Continue reading What Is WordPress?

How to Create a Graffiti Effect in Adobe Photoshop

What You’ll Be Creating Learn how to create graffiti art from your photos in Adobe Photoshop, using filters and adjustments. Follow along with us over on our Envato Tuts+ YouTube channel: The graffiti effect is part of Graffiti Effect with Pop Up Photoshop Action from my portfolio on Envato Market. Graffiti Effect with Pop Up Photoshop Action… Continue reading How to Create a Graffiti Effect in Adobe Photoshop

12 Best CRM & Project Management PHP Scripts

A business cannot survive without CRM software—you need it to manage customer contacts, track leads, and manage your finances. A CRM system can help you streamline your business systems and have all your customer details in one place. What Is CRM Software? CRM (customer relationship management) software is a tool that helps automate and manage the… Continue reading 12 Best CRM & Project Management PHP Scripts

How to Add Social Media Icons to WordPress

Today, social media is one of the most effective ways to market your WordPress website, earning you invaluable word-of-mouth promotion, boosting your SEO, and helping you build a closer relationship with your audience. So why make it difficult for visitors to connect with you on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and all of the major social media… Continue reading How to Add Social Media Icons to WordPress

How to Lint CSS Using Stylelint

Linters have been around for a good while; but if you’re new to CSS this might be the first you’ve heard about them. A CSS linter will keep your stylesheets in check and make you a better coder! What Are the Benefits of CSS Linters? As front end developers we hope that the code we… Continue reading How to Lint CSS Using Stylelint

24 Best WPBakery Page Builder (Visual Composer) Addons & Plugins of 2020

Add the best WPBakery add-ons and extensions ever developed to your page builder and add give your website visitors the experience they need. From carousel add-ons to extra WooCommerce product extensions, these WPBakery add-ons and extensions will provide endless new possibilities.  One of the many premium WPBakery page builder addons and extensions available on CodeCanyon  The… Continue reading 24 Best WPBakery Page Builder (Visual Composer) Addons & Plugins of 2020