WordPress Tutorials

I found the one file to fix that kept my Twitter Card images from not showing when sharing posts from my WordPress blog. Here is how I fixed it..

Enqueuing is the WordPress way to add a stylesheet or JavaScript file on a page. We already published a Quick Guide about including your JavaScript in WordPress. This time, though, we’re adding an extra wrinkle: how do you only enqueue a JavaScript file on certain pages of your WordPress site. That’s the focus of this here Quick Guide.

You can use the body_class filter in WordPress to add the Taxonomy Terms of a Custom Taxonomy as CSS classes to a post. The CSS class appears in the body element and is only used if the post has been assigned to the taxonomy. The code goes in your functions.php file. add_filter( 'body_class', 'themeprefix_add_taxonomy_class'…

Is there a better way to make direct changes to your WordPress website? Yes, there is! Learn how to build a local WordPress environment with XAMPP and how to get your website online once it’s ready to see the light of day.

I gave an introduction to continuous integration with WordPress at WordCamp San Diego 2018. This is the companion article that I wrote for it. If you’re just looking for the slides, click here.

I can't stop praising WordPress when it comes to the conveniences it provides. While the approach it takes on things might not suit everyone, every time, for the most part its solutions to common issues

Migrating from Wix to WordPress can be rather a complicated process, but it's definitely worth it. Check out this complete migration guide which can help make the transition a breeze!

We'll show you how to pass the transaction fees to the customer and how to make this optional. This tutorial assumes that you know how to add fields in Gravity Forms and know how to set up Paypal/Stripe on there as well.

Lots of people have asked us how to create an instant online quote calculator for their WordPress website. Here's how we created our own, so you can too.

If you wanted to see all the post meta keys and values for a post,page or custom post type in WordPress you can either see them in the database in the wp_postmeta table or you could use the get_post_meta function to retrieve all the post meta or a specific key. To output the data to…

FooGallery was designed to be the most Developer-friendly gallery there is. As a freelancer, developer, or web development agency you have a lot of clients

This code adds a custom body class when the permalink contains the slug test-slug. If it doesn’t, no custom body class is added. Could also be written like this : [code] add_filter( ‘bo…

After my post on Renaming the default “Posts” post type in WordPress to something else, I’ve gotten some follow up questions on renaming taxonomies as well. Here is a quick tutorial on how you can rename the default WordPress taxonomies (tags/categories). Solution Similar to renaming the post type, we need to tackle two areas: the …

Custom function to change text strings.

L:earn how to set up a curated news site with WordPress that pulls visitors back again and again.

A quick code snippet to stop WordPress from adding default CSS styles into the gallery posts.

Galleries and images are not new to WordPress. Gallery plugins existed long before WordPress had enhanced media functionality of it’s own. The [ gallery ] shortcode was introduced in version 2.5 and the Gallery Post Format came around in 3.1. This post will walk you through the process of working with and styling the native […]

As simple as WordPress is to get up and running, taking over a WordPress website from someone else is anything but. It’s not hard to take control of a WP install, but there are a lot of moving...

Here is a guide on how to make an image carousel thumbnail slider with ACF in WordPress using the ACF gallery field. Lightslider, a lightweight image slider seems to fit the bill perfectly – I need it to just display simple thumbnails below the main image which on click/touch show the image in the main slide…

Learn how to edit an image in WordPress. Scale, rotate, flip, resize & crop images in the WordPress Media Library. This step-by-step guide demonstrates how to easily edit WordPress images with no photo editing software, Photoshop, etc. Restore your original image with one click, or replace an image and keep the file name.

What if we could have a WordPress website in which its dynamic content could be exported as static files? Leonardo Losoviz explains how you can combine both worlds: switch to a static site generator without having to abandon WordPress.

The WordPress Search Widget is a classic HTML Form, but what if we want to show the results right away? In this tutorial, we will power up the WordPress Search Form with React and REST API to show the results […]

Before deploying a new plugin in WordPress, it's a good idea to keep a list of easy-to-misuse functions by your side. Let's take a closer look at some functions which you can and should use as part of a broader security strategy.

Let’s talk about the WordPress REST API. It’s been around for a little while now, and you might have even started using it in your projects. After all, a lot of us are trying to get more into…

In this short tutorial, we look at the WordPress body class and how we can manipulate it using core API calls.Specifically, we cover adding body classes, removing body classes, conditionally adding...

This morning I needed to add a body class to a page only if a meta value stored in the posts meta data was a certain value. Here are a couple examples of that in action.

This walk-through will give you and example of how to use each method of dynamic population to dynamically populate a field on your form!

Illustrated step-by-step guide how to set up download protection with Amazon S3 and using it with FV Player.

Did you know 64% of people are more likely to buy a product after watching a video? Yep, that's right. In this exhaustive and definitive guide, we ...