WordPress allows you to create custom layouts for all of your pages. These custom layouts are called templates.
For example, if you have a web design blog, you can create a custom template that will put the PHP logo on every page about PHP.
Some themes come with many templates already created, but creating your own is a very simple process.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a WordPress template that adds a PHP logo to all of your site PHP pages.
The Gutenberg editor has revolutionized how we write in WordPress.
Gutenberg didn't only change how we write posts, but it also exposed many more WordPress features. In the old, "Classic" editor, you had a formatting toolbar that looked like Microsoft Word. In Gutenberg, you have the formatting options, but also easy access to extra features. Two of those new features are Widgets and Embeds. These are WordPress features that were previously very difficult to access when writing posts. If you combine Gutenberg with a plugin like Read more ...
I use Google Maps almost every time I leave the house. And, I'm definitely not alone. According to some calculations, Google Maps is the world's most popular phone app in the world.
It's not just apps: millions of websites use Google Maps to show location information.
If you use WordPress, there's now a really easy to add Google Maps to your sites. With the EmbedPress plugin, you can add Google Maps using just a URL. You don't need to be messing around with embed codes that break easily
WooCommerce Explained is the best-selling book on WooCommerce.
In this exclusive tutorial, taken from WooCommerce Explained, we're going to show you how to manage taxes for your WooCommerce store.
We're going to try to explain WooCommerce taxes in plain English, but there's no getting around the fact that taxes can be a headache.
So, sit down in a comfortable chair and make yourself a strong cup of coffee. Let's explore how taxes work in WooCommerce.
One of Gutenberg's most useful features is the ability to reuse blocks. You can turn any block into a reusable block, speeding up your workflow and helping to maintain your website’s look and feel.
If you combine this with a Gutenberg layout builder such as Advanced Gutenberg, you can build really powerful sites with WordPress blocks.
In this tutorial, I will show you how to reuse WordPress Gutenberg blocks, and we also have a free video guide for you.
There is one reason I keep hearing over and over again from people who don't use WordPress: there's no access control. For large organizations, it's essential to have close control over what users can and cannot do on our site. Drupal and Joomla both have powerful access control systems in the core.
With WordPress, if you choose the right plugin, it is still possible to have close control over what your users can and can not do. We're going to show you how with the PublishPress Capabilities plugin.
If you're writing a lot of content on your WordPress site, you will need an easy way to plan your posts.
An Editorial Calendar provides a single screen where you can see all the content you're going to publish. Ideally, the Editorial Calendar will help keep you organized in a busy schedule.
Think of an Editorial Calendar as a timetable for your content.
If you're a WordPress user, there are several Editorial Calendars that integrate directly into WordPress. These calendars will show your planned WordPress posts and allow you to schedule new content.
Does it matter how many words you write in each blog post?
Yes, for many people, it does.
Some writers set themselves a target number of words per day, as a good habit. Whether your target is 500, 1000, 2000 or even more words, a lot of writers love the discipline of hitting a daily target.
Some other writers are aiming for a specific word count simply for marketing purposes. It's generally thought that Google gives a higher rank to longer posts, so long as they're interesting. So many SEO experts recommend you write posts between 2000 and 2500 words.
By default, WordPress is very, very careful about who can delete files in your site's Media Library.
Only users in the "Administrator" role are able to delete images and files in your Media Library. Anyone who is in the Subscriber, Contributor, Author and Editor roles is not allowed to delete images.
However, on some sites you may want to allow other users to clean your Media Library. Perhaps you have private files, or just have a cluttered Media Library with too many files.
The solution to deleting files is to install the PublishPress Capabilities plugin.
Websites are never too far from problems. If you run a WordPress website, you will need to spot and fix problems.
WordPress works on PHP. When PHP runs into issues, it reports them to you. This may be helpful to you as the website owner, but these same errors may also be seen by your site visitors.
Having your website hacked can be very stressful but here are some guidelines on how to fix a hacked site with help from the Wordfence plugin.
Often the first sign that your site has been hacked is an email from your hosting company or Google. Hacks are often ‘invisible’ to most users as they insert hidden links into the content of the site.
Moving your WordPress website over to https has never been more important. If you don't, major search engines will penalize your site with a lower ranking.
In this blog post, you will look at why https is so important and at what you need to do to move your WordPress site to https.
This week I was upgrading a WordPress site. It had a partial blank page in the admin. It wasn't a full White Screen of Death, but there was clearly a bug that needed fixing.
This tutorial will help you to debug issues like this. I'm going to show you how to use WordPress' debugger to find the cause of this issue.
WordPress’s new editor Gutenberg provides new flexibility and opportunities for creativity in itself, but there are now plugins available to help improve its performance even more.
The one area where Gutenberg can be frustrating is the columns block. The settings are limited and it can be difficult to get just right. Now there are a few plugins that provide the functionality that has been missing, such as:
So you're excited about using WordPress’s new Gutenberg editor. There's so much to take advantage of in Gutenberg, especially when you add plugins such Advanced Gutenberg with a ton more features.
Gutenberg is a great tool that offers flexibility and easy creative options. But what happens to all the posts and pages you have already created on your WordPress sites? Will your content look the same after you enable Gutenberg? And how easy is it to take advantage of all the new features?
I'll answer those questions in this blog post.
Since 2011, almost every year, the WordPress team have released a new theme.
However, the team didn't release a theme for 2018 because there were no major WordPress releases.
This year, we're back on track and there's a new default theme, called "Twenty Nineteen". This new theme is needed to take full advantage of this flexibility offered by Gutenberg.
Twenty Nineteen offers significant creative freedom. However, it’s almost a blank slate to begin with, and that can be a little daunting.
Text and image blocks may be the most frequently used blocks in Gutenberg, but there are many others that come standard with WordPress new editor.
Previously you would have had to install a plugin or use HTML to get the same results. Let me show you some of the really cool and useful new features in the Gutenberg core.
PS. If you haven't checked out plugins such as Advanced Gutenberg, give it a go. The Gutenberg core is really, and Advanced Gutenberg and others really make it great.
In a previous blog post, we explained that the new Gutenberg editor has moved many key text features into blocks. The same is true with images in Gutenberg.
In the old WordPress editor, you could click "Add media" and use many image and media features from that pop-up screen. That has all changed with Gutenberg.
In this tutorial, I'll walk you through the options for handling images in Gutenberg. You can also super-charge your image blocks with plugins such as Advanced Gutenberg that add more media features.
Gutenberg comes with a variety of different standard blocks as part of the editor. Many of these standard blocks allow you to add text. There are also dozens of different plugins such as Advanced Gutenberg which add even more blocks and features.
Your first experience with Gutenberg is probably going to involve text blocks. If you just start typing on a new page or post, you have created a "Paragraph" block.
Gutenberg is more than just blocks. It lets you layout a page using columns, thus providing greater flexibility with the look of your page. You can create columns and rows with a variety of different content in both.
As can be expected with such a new release there are some limitations, but it still represents a great step forward. If you find you need more layout options after reading this guide, check out the Advanced Gutenberg plugin.
In this tutorial, you will look at using columns in the WordPress core Gutenberg editor.
WordPress 5 is here with a brand new editor that changes the way posts and pages are created and edited. Here we provide an overview on how to use the new editor and what to do when upgrading existing sites.
The new Gutenberg editor uses a block-based system to provide flexibility with how content is displayed. This allows you to insert text, images, multimedia content, code, quote, buttons, and much more, with ease.
WordPress 5 is available today. The headline feature is the new Gutenberg editor.
This is perhaps the biggest single-day release in the history of open source software. That's no exaggeration. I'm unable to think of any other change that was so significant and was quickly pushed out to over 30% of the web.
So you have everything ready for launch and your site is sitting on your local computer. You're ready to move WordPress to the "real" server and start publishing.
Here's a step-by-step tutorial on how to export and import your data base, and get WordPress running on the new server.
Did you know that every WordPress site can embed posts from every other WordPress site? WordPress sites are oEmbed providers.
Out-of-the-box, your embeddable posts will take on the look and feel of the WordPress core default template. In this blog post, you will learn how to make your embeddables consistent with the look and feel of your own template.
WordPress themes makes it possible to give your users control of many aspects of their site's designs.
One of the most common design features in themes are featured images. Many bloggers love to use large, high-quality images for their posts.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to add featured image support in a custom WordPress theme.
If you have a multilingual website, it's worth thinking about the SEO challenges you'll face.
Most website owners only need to optimize for one language. Simply adding another language doubles the amount of optimization work you need to do. Plus, you need to think about another version of Google, with different competitors and different challenges.
SEO concerns a real with multilingual websites. In this guide, based on advice from the "How to Build Multilingual WordPress Sites" class, we'll focus on key ways you can improve your site's SEO.
Spam is more than an irritation. It can reduce your productivity. Sometimes the spam prevention can be as bad as the spam itself, making your visitors spot similar images, do maths sums or answer questions to prove that they are human.
This can put people off interacting with your website. Fortunately, WordPress has plugins that can handle spam transparently, without creating irritation to either you or your visitors. In this blog post, you will take a look at two of them.
The new Gutenberg editor is due to arrive with WordPress 5.0 on November 27.
We're already starting to see new types of Gutenberg-specific plugin. These aren't old plugins that have a layer of Gutenberg comptability. These are new plugins that are block-first. They're built for the new Gutenberg era.
One of the most popular of these new plugins is Advanced Gutenberg. This plugin provides over 20 new blocks. It's helpful to think of them in two categories:
Elementor and Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) are two of the most popular and powerful plugins in WordPress:
This week, we have a video showing you how to use these two plugins together to create superb sites. Rod shows you how to create an IMDB-style movie review website using Elementor and ACF together.
WordPress is the key technology tool for many companies. They use it for marketing, e-commerce, CRM and 1,001 other tasks. So, it's not surprising that a lot of WordPress users also rely on it for project management.
After all, if you allow customers to pay you on your WordPress site, or raise a support ticket there, why not also collaborate on projects using the same platform.
In this overview, we'll introduce you to 5 of the best WordPress project management plugins. All 5 have free versions available on WordPress.org. You can download them, test them, and see if they're a good fit for you and your projects.
