Using the Power of the .htaccess File to Improve WordPress SEO

Search engine optimization is a rapidly growing field which seems to grow more lucrative by the day, and that’s largely because a website’s placement within a search engine can make or break the site’s revenues and their stream of new readers or subscribers. Many people are familiar with the best ways to optimize a website for the best search engine placement, whether it’s committing to a routine and regular cycle…

WordPress 3.4 “Green” Released

Few days back, WordPress came up with its latest stable release – WordPress 3.4 – named “Green” after the guitarist Grant Green. Version 3.4 comes with several new features, both major and minor. For a start, we now have greater freedom when customizing backgrounds and headers. You can now make the header images flexible in terms of width and height, so there is more scope for innovation when customizing your…

Tracking Social Media Sharing and Button-Clicks with JavaScript and WordPress

In the past several years, one trend has become apparent on blogs and websites of all sizes: Google Analytics is clearly the preferred way to track everything from a user’s operating system to the popular of links on a website’s homepage. This popular method of tracking and monitoring each visitor who comes across a website might seem to be a bit broad, but users can actually use JavaScript on certain…

For the Novice Developer: The Anatomy of a WordPress Theme

The great thing about WordPress is that, due to its surging base of 60 million users, it’s one of the most widely-developed and themed content management systems in the world. This isn’t just due to the popularity of the software itself, however; WordPress is actually exceedingly easy to theme and extend in various ways based on a user’s experience and needs. The theme structure that has been used with the…

Focusing on Usability with an Enhanced Pagination Design in WordPress Entries

WordPress has supported basic pagination in both entries and in lists of posted entries for quite some time, although this method is not the most intuitive way to navigate content. Because the developers behind this popular content management solution believe in making everything almost exceedingly basic, so that it accommodates novice users as well as those who are more advanced, the pagination technique used by WordPress simple allows users to…

An In-Depth Understanding of WordPress Hooks

Say the phrase “WordPress hooks,” and any novice developer will almost invariably balk and begin fretting over how difficult it is to understand implement these advanced pieces of code in independent plugins and theme-specific functions.php files. This might be because there are simply so many WordPress hooks to be learned, or it might be because using them to modify the output of a WordPress installation can be a bit daunting…

Pros and Cons of Developing Plugins While Hosting them at the WordPress Repository

For nearly a decade, WordPress has been developed as an open source content management system, able to easily respond to changes and new demands in the marketplace. It is because of this flexibility and community development method that the software was easily able to grow and expand to serve more than 60 million users and 15,000 developers around the world in just under a decade since its first version was…

Recently Released Free WordPress Themes

Free themes can be highly valuable resources to WordPress users and bloggers. While there is no shortage of premium themes available for purchase, the quality of free themes can sometimes exceed the expectations that you would have for something that can be downloaded and used for free. In this post we’ve compiled some of the best free WordPress themes that have been recently. The collection includes a variety of different…

Syndication for Articles Only: The How and Why of an Articles-Only RSS Feed

There was a time, not too long ago, when blogging was only about creating full-length entry content for readers to peruse and interact with. That time has long passed, however, and has given way to the era of tweets, blogrolls and link lists, micro-entries, digests, and all kinds of other content which gets published right alongside traditional content. When it’s placed into a regular WordPress blog design, there’s actually nothing…

Removing PHP out of WordPress Template Files and Placing it in Dynamic Pages and Posts

One of the things which characterizes WordPress is its broad use of PHP and “PHP-like” variables throughout its template files. These variables have remained unchanged for the better part of a decade since WordPress was developed, and so too has their placement. Since the very first WordPress release, PHP code could only be used in a raw template file which was stored on the server. This was (and is) largely…

WordPress Plugins That Make Your Life Easier

Whether you’re a designer, a developer (or both), chances are you don’t have a lot of spare time. With that in mind, here are some of my favorite WordPress plugins that can help you get things done and move on to the next project. You may also like… WordPress Plugins to Help Make Your Site Responsive → 10 WordPress Plugins to Help Optimize Performance → Mobile Toolbox for WordPress (Tutorials,…

Five Free WordPress Theme Package from WP Theme Generator

Today we have an amazing freebie for you – A package of five WordPress Themes courtesy of the guys from WP Theme Generator. All five of the feature-rich themes have been built to demonstrate the power, functionality and awesomeness of their generator. You can download them all for free. All of the themes have been crafted using the same powerful base framework and are all choc-full of features you would…

20 New and Free Minimal WordPress Themes

All of the minimal themes we have for you below are free and will work perfectly well straight-out-of-the-box (albeit with a few option panel tweaks), also the vast majority of them being responsive. But, putting the minimal styling aside, the real beauty of these themes, for designers and developers anyway, is that they are a fantastic starting point for further development and giving you the chance to view and learn…

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