Normally, disabling a WordPress plugin is very simple and straightforward.
How easy? You can login to your admin area, click the "Plugins" tab and click "Deactivate" next to the plugin.
You can see an example below with Google Analytics.
WordPress Tutorials
A Mountain of Gutenberg News!
Yes, WordPress is going to have a new editor called "Gutenberg".
Up until now, the Gutenberg developers made slow and steady progress. Every two weeks, they released a new version. Each Gutenberg update had more features, more polish, and fewers bugs.
But, we knew almost nothing about when Gutenberg would become WordPress.
Now we know. Last week, we got more Gutenberg news than we did in the rest of 2018 combined. We got timetables, roadmaps, and technical breakdowns. We even got tantilizing glimpses into Phases 2, 3 and 4 of the Gutenberg project.
I'm going to give you a short summary of everything Matt and the WordPress team announced.
How to Add Excerpts to WordPress Pages As Well As Posts
Many WordPress themes rely on "Excerpts" to show a short summary of your WordPress content.
You'll find an "Excerpts" box on all your WordPress Posts, but you won't find them on Pages. Excerpts on WordPress pages used to be a standard feature, then they were removed in WordPress 3.1.
Fortunately, if you need to use excerpts, it is easy to put the excerpt window back for "Pages". All you need is a single line of code.
How to Avoid 8 Common WordPress Development Mistakes
When you’re developing plugins, messing up is just part of the process.
There’s a lot of trial and error involved in developing plugins for WordPress. You don't need to beat yourself every time you make an error, but there are some really common mistakes you can avoid.
Read on to find out how to avoid eight of the most common mistakes you'll make when first creating plugins for WordPress.
Your Ultimate Tutorial for the WPML Plugin
WPML is the most popular plugin for multi-lingual WordPress sites.
WPML is an acronym for "WordPress Multilingual" and the plugin is installed on nearly a million sites.
In this tutorial, you'll see 6 videos that introduce you to WPML and show you how to configure it correctly.
Videos to Get You Started With WordPress Plugin Development
My client has asked me to build a WordPress plugin for them. Help! How do I learn to build WordPress plugins?
That's a common question we get from people who join OSTraining for the first time. They want to know about the skills they will need, and what kind of classes they should take.
I'm going to show you the skills needed for WordPress plugin development. I'll also give you links to start learning those skills.
Build Multilingual WordPress Sites with the Polylang Plugin
One of our customers recently asked us how to set up a multilingual WordPress site to manually translate it. The Polylang plugin does just that.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the Polylang plugin to create a multilingual WordPress site from scratch.
Email WordPress Users When a New Post Is Published
You write great content and want to build up an audience of people who read your blog regularly. In this situation, there's no better way to keep your audience up-to-date than by email.
Here's how you automatically notify users whenever you write a new post. We're going to use the free features of the PublishPress plugin.
Videos to Get You Started With WordPress Theme Design
How do I get started with theme design?
That's a common question we get from people who join OSTraining for the first time. They want to know about the skills they will need, and what kind of classes they should take.
Here's an overview of everything you need to get started with WordPress theme design.
Introducing BoldGrid, the WordPress Website Builder
The new Gutenberg editor is nearly here and the WordPress landscape is about to change in a big way.
Many plugins are themes are going to be impacted. In particular, people are curious how page-builder plugins such as Beaver Builder and Visual Composer will respond. The answer, looking at BoldGrid, another popular plugin in the same niche, is to do more. BoldGrid doesn't just build pages, it builds complete websites. It allows you to build an entire WordPress website without any code and in a ridiculously short amount of time.
BoldGrid provides layouts, themes, an SEO plugin and more. It also has developer-friendly tools such as Staging plugin and a Backup plugin. All-in-all, it offers far more than BoldGrid will ever offer. It's a website builder, rather than a page builder.
10 Tips to Improve Security of Your WordPress Site
WordPress is one of the simplest and versatile content management systems. Any beginner can quickly build a professional website with it.
It offers basic security out of the box to get you started. It also allows you to harden your site security.
In this post, you will learn 10 tips to easily enhance the security of your WordPress website even if you are a beginner.
How to Monitor WordPress Downtime
So your WordPress website offers good content to your visitors. And it offers an amazing user-experience. And it's safe and secure!
But it all will be in vain if your site keeps suffering from downtime.
In this blog post, I will discuss possible reasons for WordPress downtime and ways to monitor incidents.
Create WordPress Forms that Open and Close Automatically
Gator Forms is our favorite WordPress forms plugin.
One of the reasons we like it so much is that it has a wide range of display options. Gator Forms doesn't require you to put your form inside a Post or a Page. You can show your forms in pop-ups, tabs, accordions, lightboxes and other effects.
In this guide, I'm going to show how you to create a form that automatically opens and closes for visitors.
Place a WordPress Form on the Side or Top of Your Site
Gator Forms is our favorite WordPress forms plugin.
One of the reasons we like it so much is that it has a wide range of pop-ups and buttons you can use to make your forms more visible.
Gator Forms doesn't require you to put your form inside a Post or a Page. You can show it around the outside of your site too.
3 Options for Contact Forms in WordPress
One very popular WordPress beginner question is "How do I create a contact form in WordPress?".
When you search for a contact form plugin in the WordPress directory, you get over 258 pages of entries returned.
So, the real question isn't so much "How do I create a contact form in WordPress?" but "Which plugin do I use?".
We have some recommendations for you:
Open a WordPress Form by Clicking on a Menu Link
Some websites make it really hard to contact them. The "Contact Us" page is hidden in the footer. The social media icons, if there any, lead to accounts where no-one ever replies.
Why not make it as easy as possible to contact you?!?
One good idea is to place a "Contact Us" in your menu. As soon as people click on it, they'll get a pop-up box with a contact form. Your visitors don't even need to visit a different page. That's as easy as it gets.
What are Website Internationalization and Localization?
When you build multilingual websites you will probably come across two keywords, "Internationalization" and "Localization".
These are complicated words for fairly straightforward ideas. In this guide, I'll explain what Internationalization and Localization are, and what you need to understand about them when building your multilingual site.
How to Find and Translate WordPress Plugins
If you're building a multilingual WordPress site, there are four things you need to find translations for:
- The WordPress core
- Your content
- Your theme
- Your plugins
In a previous tutorial, we took a look at how to find a multilingual theme. In this guide, we're going to take a look at how to find multilingual plugins. Not every plugin has been translated or is capable of being translated.
How to Add WordPress Guest Authors to Your Posts
Do you accept guest blog posts on your WordPress site?
It's a great way to drive traffic to your site, improve your SEO, and create connections with other bloggers.
However, by default, everyone who writes on your WordPress site has to have a user account. So to accept a guest author post, you need to create a user account that the author may never use.
How to Find and Translate WordPress Themes
If you're building a multilingual WordPress site, you need a multilingual WordPress theme.
You don't necessarily need a theme that has been translated, but you do need a theme that can be translated.
Let me show you how you can find a translatable theme.
Show Your WordPress Contact Form In a Floating Tab
Many WordPress contact forms allow you to embed the form into a post or a page.
The Gator Forms plugin is a little different. It provides you with a floating tab so that visitors can easily access the contact form no matter what page they're on.
Here's how to use Gator Forms to show your contact form inside a tab.
How to Embed WordPress Posts and WooCommerce Products
You probably know that WordPress makes it easy to embed social media in Posts and Pages.
But did you know that you can easily embed snippets from WordPress posts and WooCommerce products in other content, using just a URL?
Here's an overview of how WordPress allows you to share posts on other sites (and even your own site).
Is WooCommerce or Magento Best for Your E-Commerce Store?
Magento and WooCommerce are both huge players in online selling.
When you're deciding on an online sales channel, how do you choose between these two titans of ecommerce?
Both have their advantages and disadvantages, so let's take a look and compare them.
How to Add a Preview Image to WordPress Videos
WordPress makes adding videos easy. However, many WordPress users don't realize that they can make their videos more attractive.
In particular, it often helps to add a preview image to your videos. An eye-catching preview image can really draw attention to your video. If you allow the preview image be chosen automatically, you can often end up with a snapshot taken at a bad moment in the video.
Please note, this will only work with videos that you have directly uploaded and stored in WordPress. This won't work with WordPress YouTube, WordPress Vimeo, or WordPress Wistia videos.
This tutorial will show you how to add a custom preview image to your WordPress videos.
How to Create Password Protected Posts in WordPress
Did you know that WordPress offer the ability to password-protect the posts that you write?
This feature doesn't require a plugin and is a core feature of WordPress.
In this short, I'm going to show you how to create protected posts. Each WordPress post will need it's own password, so this won't work for protecting a whole site.
Review of the Best WordPress Checklist Plugins
If you really care about your WordPress content, you know that it's a constant struggle to maintain high standards.
It's not easy to create consistent, high-quality posts. Without a careful approach, you'll find your site has a different approach from post to post, and you'll soon end up with lots of messy content.
One solution is a WordPress checklist plugin. These plugins enable you to decide the requirement for each post before you publish.
We downloaded and tested all the checklist plugins for WordPress. Here's our review of all four WordPress checklist plugins ...
WordPress - Fatal error: Allowed memory size of bytes exhausted
Does your WordPress site show a message similar to this?
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 19456 bytes) in wp-admin/includes/theme.php on line 81
If your answer is "yes", this tutorial is for you.
We've helped several of our students with similar issues so we decided to write a tutorial to hopefully help someone else out as well.
Before starting to read this guide, it's worth understanding what PHP errors are in WordPress.
How to Make Your WordPress Website Multilingual with Weglot Translate Plugin
If you’re looking to translate and display your website in different languages, whether it’s to increase your audience or to reach more customers, you should be very interested in Weglot plugin.
It is a WordPress multilingual plugin. It enables you to translate and manage your translations. With this plugin, you can deploy and display your translated pages extremely efficiently.
In this blog post, you will learn how to quickly set it up. You will also take a look at how to enjoy multi-lingual features Weglot Translate offers to you.
Create WordPress Child Themes with Child Theme Configurator
Child themes are the best way to modify WordPress themes. With a child theme, you can add custom CSS styles and keep the original theme intact in case it needs to be updated in the future.
However, child themes aren't always easy to create. In this post, you will learn how to generate them with just a few clicks, using the Child Theme Configurator plugin.
How to Set Up WordPress Multisites
Multisites allow you run multiple websites from just one WordPress installation. Each website can have different users, different themes and different plugins.
This is possible because the old WPMU (WordPress Multi-User) project was merged into the main WordPress system. This is the same codebase that allows WordPress.com to run millions of sites, so you can be sure it works well.
In order to set this up, you will need access to your files so that you can edit them. This tutorial will show you how. When you've finished, click here to read Part 2 of this tutorial: Managing WordPress Multisites