WordPress

After successfully installing the quickstart package in the last installment, our WordPress newbie takes a look at posts and finds out that WordPress content creation can be both easy and hard at the same time.

With WordPress 4.0 upon us, many people will already be aware of the major changes and features available to the average user. But what about developers? WordPress 4.0 brings with it a host of changes that will be of use to the development community; in this article, we take a look at some of the more important changes and what they mean.

People like to say that WordPress and Joomla are easy, and that’s true. Assuming, of course, that you are comparing them to making a website from scratch using your own PHP, CSS and HTML skills. Otherwise, they are rather tough to learn, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try. In this series our resident newbie tries his hardest to get to grips with a CMS, starting with, as you would expect, with the installation…

With the introduction of our page-based frontpage in our latest themes, we’ve made some changes to News Show Pro to let you place your product showcases anywhere you like in your content with a shortcode! In this article, we’ll look at how the shortcode works, and go in-depth with a few of the available options.

Requiring a user to manually insert image addresses in your plugin can be frustrating for the user, especially if they are inexperienced. By adding support for the WordPress media manager to your plugin, they can use the much more convenient and understandable interface to easily select their preferred image. Want to learn how to do it? Read on as we examine the steps required to make your plugin more user-friendly.

Changing the background of your website may be a piece of cake for experienced users, but newcomers to WordPress may not find it so intuitive. In this article we’ll look at two ways that you can change the background in GavickPro’s WordPress themes

When writing your own functions for WooCommerce, it may be that you run into some issues regarding compatibility with the WPML multilanguage plugin. This short guide will examine such a situation where we want to get a WooCommerce product by SKU, and look at how we can get around the issue.

If you’re creating shortcodes that are going to run through several intensive operations that take longer than usual to finish, such as pulling data from external servers, then it makes sense to create a cache. This guide will run you through the basics to improve your shortcode efficiency.

The WordPress 4.0 beta has been released, and we're excited to have a look at the changes it brings. In this article we'll highlight some of the new features that are coming our way.

The WordPress theme customizer is a useful way for users to get an idea of what changes to a theme’s options will actually do, without taking the plunge and risking damaging the site’s aesthetics. In this article, we’ll look at how you can expand a theme’s options to include a color switcher for even more user flexibility.