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Though it may seem like forever, Google Chrome has only been around since 2008. Regardless, in its 10 short years, Google Chrome has become the most used and most popular web browser of all web...
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There’s an ongoing debate amongst freelancers that revolves around whether or not to publicly display pricing on their portfolio website’s pricing page. For many, the worry stems from the possibility...
View ArticleHow to Vet & Hire a WordPress Subcontractor
Hiring a virtual assistant or multiple subcontractors can be one of the best decisions you can make for your WordPress business. They can take care of the tasks you aren’t well-versed in, or the tasks...
View ArticleWordPress Management: Ongoing Costs to Help You Budget
While the WordPress software itself is free (thanks to the GNU General Public License), running and maintaining a WordPress website comes at a price. Technically, you can start a blog for free on...
View ArticleQuiz: Are You a WordPress Developer or Implementer?
There’s been a lot of debate this year about developers. What makes a WordPress developer, really? Is it someone who is able to understand and use code? Is it someone who can create a child theme and...
View ArticleNo More Cowboy Coding: Improving Your WordPress Workflow
When most people start doing WordPress development, their workflow involves downloading a file from a theme or plugin via FTP, editing it, uploading it via FTP, refreshing the page, figuring out went...
View Article12 Not-So-Obvious WordPress Tweaks to Improve Posts and Pages
Posts and pages are the backbone of a WordPress environment. They can be filed under the umbrella term singular page because they show a single piece of content from your database. Optimizing these can...
View ArticleWordPress Question: How Can I Moderate Changes Made To My Site?
Over the past couple of weeks we’ve had some very interesting WordPress questions sent in by our readers here at WPMU, and some great suggestions and ideas from the WordPress ninjas in our community....
View ArticleFrom WordPress Beginner to Pro: 200+ Career-Boosting Resources
Whether you’re just starting out with WordPress or you’ve been developing with it for some time, you’ll probably find that the resources out there to help you learn are pretty daunting. There are...
View ArticleHow To Add The Facebook ‘Subscribe’ Button To Your WordPress Site
Toward the end of last year, Facebook released their new ‘Subscribe’ button to webmasters, allowing people to embed the button on their own blog or website. The subscribe function in Facebook allows...
View Article7 Ways To Make WordPress Multisite Work For You
If you’re new to Multisite you may feel as though you’ve been tricked… You were told that it makes managing multiple WordPress sites so much more convenient, but now you’re finding new limitations and...
View ArticlePricing Pages: Should You Add to Your Freelance Website?
There’s an ongoing debate amongst freelancers that revolves around whether or not to publicly display pricing on their portfolio website’s pricing page. For many, the worry stems from the possibility...
View Article8 Places to Find a Good WordPress Developer or Designer
You have some spectacular ideas for your WordPress site that needs fixing, but you’re not a coder. So, you need the services of a professional WordPress developer or designer. But where to begin?...
View Article8 Places to Find a Good WordPress Developer or Designer
You have some spectacular ideas for your WordPress site that needs fixing, but you’re not a coder. So, you need the services of a professional WordPress developer or designer. But where to begin?...
View ArticlePricing Pages: Should You Add to Your Freelance Website?
There’s an ongoing debate amongst freelancers that revolves around whether or not to publicly display pricing on their portfolio website’s pricing page. For many, the worry stems from the possibility...
View ArticleLoading WordPress Posts Dynamically With AJAX
AJAX has become all the rage in the past couple of years and for good reason. AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a way to have a “conversation” with the server and display the results without...
View ArticleCreating Custom Database Tables for Your WordPress Plugins
In the majority of cases, plugins modify options, metadata or leverage already existing tables (most commonly the posts table) to create new functionality. Custom post types, custom taxonomies, image...
View Article5 Simple Methods for Creating Custom Queries in WordPress
On every page of your website, WordPress runs a query. This fetches data from your site’s database and then displays it in the way your theme tells it to using the loop. This is referred to as the main...
View ArticleA Quick and Easy Guide To Creating WordPress Admin Pages
Admin pages are the heart and soul of plugins. This article shows how simple it is to create WordPress admin pages. It’s easy to assume they are complex form-filled monsters, the sole purpose of which...
View ArticleUsing Subversion with the WordPress Plugin Directory
Follow these step-by-step instructions to add and update plugins in the public WordPress Plugin Directory. These essential steps from the video follow below: Getting Started with Your Plugin Register...
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