Using WordPress to Create a Micro-Site within an Existing Theme

One trend in content management has become pretty clear in recent years. Increasingly, site administrators are creating so-called “micro-sites,” or websites within a website, that contain completely different posts, styling, and other features. These micro-sites often appear in the form of digests, magazines, social media repositories, and other types of website that necessarily need to be separated from a site’s main content. Sure, these micro-sites could be created with an…

Creating a Mobile WordPress Theme with the jQuery Mobile Library

When it comes to separating a mobile website from a truly robust mobile experience, the main differentiator is typically the use of jQuery. This innovative use of JavaScript, which is generally considered the only acceptable use of the JavaScript language in mobile websites, is the key way to turn a standard website into one that more closely resembles the experience found in mobile applications, without the high costs of learning…

Building a WordPress Theme Around the Events Calendar Plugin

WordPress has quickly transformed from a mere content management platform to one that is now involved in managing almost every aspect of an administrator’s day. The world’s most popular content management solution can, via plugins, manage events, dates, to-do lists, notes, tweets, Facebook status updates, and more. And, of these new ways to manage content, there is perhaps no more popular plugin than The Events Calendar, widely known as the…

Unraveling the Secrets of the comments.php File

One of the most important templates in any WordPress installation is the “comments.php” template file that is paired with virtually every single theme distributed for use with the world’s most popular content management solution. More than 60 million people rely on this basic template file every single day in order to encourage user interaction and communication. But, surprisingly enough, a large number of WordPress website administrators never actually dig into…

What to Look for in a Great WordPress Caching Plugin

WordPress has been around for the better part of a decade, and that means there are some truly massive websites and databases that get queried on a regular basis. Those queries can add up pretty quickly and, over time, they can actually slow down the website and increase how much bandwidth it uses in an average month. As any web hosting customer knows, bandwidth can be particularly expensive and it…

Free WordPress Security E-Book Available from Code Poet: Locking Down WordPress

Code Poet, launched in May by Automattic, has this week released a new e-book on WordPress security. In the pages of “Locking Down WordPress,” three WordPress developers provide important advice on taking the right precautions. The book interviews the three seasoned WordPress pros, all of whom recommended updating all server code in the event of a security breach and requiring strong passwords. Rachel Baker is a freelance web developer who…

Ten Key Ways to Secure a Typical WordPress Installation

In just under a decade, WordPress has evolved from a fledgling content management system to the most-used such solution online. The software has accumulated more than 60 million users around the world, both on typical blogs at major news organizations like the New York Times, CNN, and the Washington Post. This notoriety, generally speaking, is good for the entire community. It has led to the largest group of developers for…

Publishing to WordPress from the Desktop, Even Offline, Using the XML-RPC Protocol

The way to avoid losing the moment of inspiration in an offline world is by installing software known as an XML-RPC client. These specially designed software applications actually reside on a user’s hard drive and place a shortcut on their desktop. They permit the writing of posts even when the computer does not have access to an internet connection, and they can store those posts and automatically submit them to…

Don’t Become a Slave to Your Archives: Highlighting a WordPress Site’s Best Content

The challenge of operating an aging and content-rich WordPress blog is to never let content be fully relegated to the archives, which most users aren’t likely to peruse on their own free time. Confining entries solely to the backdated pages of an archive section is a great way to turn them into forgotten content, with users unable to find those entries and therefore prone to believing that a website never…

Using cPanel to Create a MySQL Database for use with your CMS

There are two things that almost any online author is bound to experience in their travels: cPanel administration software and a content management solution like the ever-popular WordPress. And this means that virtually every online author will have to eventually learn how to create a MySQL database which is capable of holding the data produced by WordPress–including pages, posts, comments, and anything else which may be created down the road…

How WordPress Changed My Career

Back when I started my career as a web designer (circa 1996), the main idea of having a website was to, well, have one. In those days, most businesses weren’t doing much more than putting together a hierarchy (an often poorly designed one, at that) of text and images. The idea of a content management system, or CMS, was completely foreign to most people – myself included. Back then, a…

10 Essential Plugins for WordPress Novices

WordPress’s extensibility, courtesy of its large plugin library, is one of the primary causes for its rapid spread as the platform of choice for web development across the internet – so much so that a whopping 15% of the top 1 million websites use WordPress as their CMS, with a total of 74.3M sites currently being powered by the platform. In fact, an entire ecosystem has developed around WordPress plugins,…

Using jQuery to Validate the Standard WordPress Comment Form

WordPress does not natively validate its comment submission form, but it can be instructed to do so by developing a custom plugin which makes use of the popular Bassistance jQuery library. This library is specifically designed to validate forms and print any relevant errors before submission, and it’s by far the most widely-used way among web designers and developers to validate forms without requiring a great deal of extra coding…

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