Need to move your WordPress site to a new domain? While no one sets out intending to change domain names down the road, it’s certainly

Want to add a countdown timer to your WordPress site? While there are plenty of coming soon plugins that help you add countdown timers for website launches, there are surprisingly few plugins that let you add countdown timers to existing WordPress pages…at least for free.

If you’ve ever shopped around for WordPress hosting, you’ve probably seen this weird little acronym that shows up on many hosts’ features lists: WP-CLI. Are you familiar? Most managed WordPress hosts offer it nowadays. Impressively, it manages to pack two different acronyms into a name that’s the perfect storm for confusing beginners. So what does this acronym mean? And why should you care about it?

You probably created your WordPress site because you want people to see it. But that doesn’t mean you want people to see every single thing! That is, there are plenty of valid reasons to restrict access to all or parts of your WordPress site. Beefing up security, creating a private staging site, restricting sensitive content…you need to do it sometimes. But how?

If you’ve used WordPress for a while, I’m sure someone has told you that you “shouldn’t use too many plugins”. It’s obvious – using too many plugins will slow your WordPress site down, right? But is that actually true? I mean, people tell me I shouldn’t swim after eating, but I’ve done that my whole life and I’m still alive and kicking! So is the common knowledge that “too many plugins is bad” good for WordPress?

Are you a functions.php hoarder? If your first inclination when adding custom code snippets to your WordPress site is to stick them in functions.php, you may be afflicted with this terrible disease and not even know it.

Is there anything more addictive than the Facebook News Feed. I mean, I’m sitting here trying to write this post, but that addictive little bugger just keeps scrolling…and scrolling…and scrolling. Now, it’s 30 minutes later and I still haven’t started.

If you have ever wanted to start all over again with your WordPress website, but are not sure how to get back to your default

I’ve got a confession to make. Although I’ve been using WordPress for a  good few years now, and over the past year have used the

One of the most frustrating things for buyers of commercial themes is when they activate a theme on their site and it looks nothing like

If you run a content based website then getting your posts out to as many people as possible is the name of the game and

I received the gift of Xbox One for Christmas this year and in between sessions on Dragon Age and Destiny I have done a little

With the launch of Windows 8.1, Microsoft introduced a new Metro UI which was designed to work on mobiles devices as well as desktops. It

Today we are going show you how to add a GitHub login button into a WordPress theme using Oauth – this tutorial is for developers

The WordPress media uploader has improved a lot over the years and now provides some powerful tools to manage your images, edit them within WordPress,

For navigating older posts, by default WordPress uses next and previous links which are ok but only allow you to go back one page at

When it comes to designing and developing a WordPress theme, there are several ways you can start. Many designers start by creating an HTML template

Howdy open source enthusiasts! Did you know that there is an OS out there, as beautiful, robust and secure as Apple’s Mac OSX and yet

A staging site or development version of your site can run in parallel to your live or production site and allows you to make changes

Github is an open source online service that allows coders to host and share their work and do a whole lot more. If you are

If you’ve ever wanted to build your own WordPress theme, but aren’t sure where to start, then the Theme Matcher HTML to WordPress conversion service

This is the second of 3 posts that walk us through Pluggable Functions in WordPress. In our first post we were introduced to pluggable functions.

It was quite a while before I knew what Pluggable Functions were in WordPress, but when I learned boy did I see the power I

Issue tracking systems are used when people are collaborating on a project to record problems and keep records of fixes / milestones etc. They are

I have been wanting to add a social voting aspect to one of my existing websites for a while now, there are a few existing

Have you ever faced a situation where after updating a theme or a plugin, your WordPress site displays nothing but a white page? So bad,

When working with WordPress, it’s easy to stick with the linear familiarity of old layouts. However, designers are discovering more and more that fresher designs