WordPress

The WordPress Dashboard. We stare at it everyday, and use it to diligently review comments, create posts and generally manage our site. Sometimes though, the awesome features that are included in the dashboard and WordPress in general are forgotten; in this article, we aim to highlight some of those lesser-known options that can make your WordPress experience that little bit better.

In part 2 of our Gallery Plugin tests, our beginner tries out some of the less well-known plugins available via the repository and see whether their options and flexibility can match up to the larger plugins that the big boys put out, and waxes lyrical on just how much premium locked content and self-promotion is reasonable.

WordPress 4.0 was released last month, but with development ever-ongoing we’re already looking forward to the next update, due around the beginning of December 2014. Read on as we look at some of the new featured being introduced that you might be interested in trying out.

WordPress 3.9 came with a special gift; an updated TinyMCE editor. Now at version 4.0, there are lots of possibilities available for using the editor’s API to extend your functionality for yourself and your clients. In this guide, we’ll talk you through adding your own buttons, adding form validation to a popup and more.

You might panic the first time you see the White Screen of Death on your WordPress site, but don’t worry; there are ways to figure out where the problem lies without losing your site. In this article, we’ll look at some of the more common causes of the White Screen, and how to get around them.

If you’ve embedded content on your WordPress site, you’ve probably used oEmbed, though you may not have noticed at the time! In this article, we discuss what oEmbed is, how it works, and talk about the latest improvements to its functionality introduced in WordPress 4.0.

With such a huge range of optional plugins available for WordPress, it can be hard to find one that’s just suited to you. In this article, our resident WordPress beginner tries his hand at the most popular gallery plugins to see how easy they are to use, and who might appreciate them the most.

When you’re constantly creating content, every little bit of time you can save is useful. With the right settings, a good shortcode can make it easy to duplicate your content, insert complex HTML code and more all with just one word in your content. In this article we’ll show you how to create a shortcode from scratch to speed up your workflow.

Everybody likes to experiment with a theme and make it their own, but sometimes making deeper CSS changes can damage the theme, or a theme update will render all your changes useless, forcing you to reapply them over and over again with each update. In this tutorial we’ll look at how we can implement a child theme that lets you make changes to all the major files without risking damaging the base code of the theme.

Get in the know of all the features, fixes and other changes in our premium themes and GavernWP Framework that make them compatible with the great new options included in WordPress 4.0, the latest release from the WordPress community.