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WordPress.com Has a New Home on YouTube
15.2.2022
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✋ High fives to WordPress for releasing version 5.9 on January 29! This was the long-awaited introduction of the Site Editor and the reverberations are still being felt across the 43% slice of the …
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A Deep Introduction to WordPress Block Themes
4.2.2022
The relatively new WordPress editor, also known as the WordPress Block Editor, always under development via the Gutenberg plugin, has been with us since 2018. You can use the block editor on any WordPress theme, provided the theme …
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Using SVG in WordPress (2 Helpful Plugin Recommendations)
21.1.2022
SVG is a great image format, so it's nice to able to use it in WordPress. If you're looking to be using SVG in WordPress. , we've got you covered here with all the best options.
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4 Quality Options for a Table of Contents Block in WordPress
19.1.2022
There are a number of options for including a Table of Contents lock in WordPress. You can use a plugin, or try to do it yourself.
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9 Awesome WordPress Plugins to Use in 2022
18.1.2022
A collection of high-quality and popular WordPress plugins that will ease the process of building a website.
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10 Best WordPress Themes to Use in 2022
11.1.2022
A collection of top WordPress themes going into 2022 to help you find the perfect fit for your project.
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How to Use Native Custom Fields in WordPress (and 5 Useful Examples)
11.1.2022
Custom Fields in WordPress are arbitrary bits of data that you can apply to Posts, Pages, and Custom Post Types in WordPress. Metadata, as it were, in the form of key/value pairs. For example:
Key: subtitle / Value: They are
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8 Design Tips to Make Your Blog or Shop Stand Out
17.12.2021
Using the popular and number one rated Zeen theme as a reference, we'll show you eight modern ways to take your website to the next level.
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Links on WordPress I
8.12.2021
I try to keep up with WordPress news because I’m a big WordPress user and have many production sites that run on it. WordPress has been good to me as a site builder for literally my entire career. So, like …
How to Use an iPad for WordPress Theme Development
7.12.2021
I recently started university and, before buying a MacBook Air (the M1 chips are amazing by the way), I had to use an iPad Pro for class. However, being a Computer Science student meant I had to find a way …
A Look at the Cloudinary WordPress Plugin
30.11.2021
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Cloudinary (the media hosting and optimization service) has a brand new version (v3) of its WordPress plugin that has really nailed it. First, a high-level look at the biggest things this plugin does:
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VideoPress for WordPress
9.11.2021
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The leade here is that VideoPress makes video on WordPress way better. VideoPress is a part of Jetpack. And now, if VideoPress is the only thing you care about from the Jetpack world, you …
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How to Build a Nearly Headless WordPress Website
18.10.2021
I believe that a traditional WordPress theme should be able to work as effectively as a static site or a headless web app. The overwhelming majority of WordPress websites are built with a good ol’ fashioned WordPress theme. Most of …
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WooCommerce + Google Analytics
12.10.2021
Google Analytics is powerful analytics software. A common way to use it is to just slap the JavaScript snippet on every page template you have and let it collect basic data about unique visitors and pageviews and such. That’s useful, …
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Mars Theme: A Deep Look at Frontity’s Headless WordPress Theme
9.9.2021
Frontity is a framework for creating de-coupled (or "headless") WordPress sites. In this article, we dive into the process of spinning up such a site, with a detailed overview of the building blocks provided by Frontity and its flagship theme, Mars.
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Building Your Own Subscription Newsletter
7.9.2021
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I did a sponsored video the other week explaining how to build a paid subscription newsletter using WordPress (we did it on WordPress.com but it could be hosted anywhere), MailPoet (a plugin to visually …
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Creating a Headless WordPress Site With Frontity
20.8.2021
Frontity is a WordPress-focused React-based server-side dynamic-rendering framework (phew!) that allows us to create fast headless websites. Chris has a good introduction to Frontity. I guess you could think of it like Next.js for WordPress. And while the demand …
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Native Search vs. Jetpack Instant Search in Headless WordPress With Gatsby
18.8.2021
Have you already tried using WordPress headlessly with Gatsby? If you haven’t, you might check this article around the new Gatsby source plugin for WordPress; gatsby-source-wordpress is the official source plugin introduced in March 2021 as a part of the …
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From a Single Repo, to Multi-Repos, to Monorepo, to Multi-Monorepo
17.8.2021
I’ve been working on the same project for several years. Its initial version was a huge monolithic app containing thousands of files. It was poorly architected and non-reusable, but was hosted in a single repo making it easy to work …
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Using Web Components in WordPress is Easier Than You Think
12.8.2021
Now that we’ve seen that web components and interactive web components are both easier than you think, let’s take a look at adding them to a content management system, namely WordPress.
There are three major ways we can add them. …
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