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If you’re new to WordPress development, there’s a couple techniques that will be incredibly useful when building themes for a specific company or purpose. Most WordPress themes available are built for general use, but when adapting it for a specific…
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It’s taken me a bit of time to figure out the best way to version and deploy sites with WP Engine. I still don’t have a perfect solution, but it’s now much better than using an SFTP GUI to move…
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I’ve been wanting to get more familiar with the JSON API proposed for WordPress core and also with Angular (a javascript framework), so I decided to start building a little web app idea I’ve had for a while. I’ve started…
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I’ve been hosting my WordPress sites with Digital Ocean for a few months now. It took me quite a while to learn how to manage everything, and I thought it would be worth sharing a few shortcuts and tricks I’ve…
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WordPress 4.1 introduced a new function to display archive pagination as numbered links. Developers have been making this work for long time using custom functions or popular plugins like WP Page Navi, so its great to now have a core…
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Working with the command line can be intimidating if you’re used to a nice graphical user interface (GUI), but it’s worth getting familiar with. There’s a lot of mundane tasks in web development can be automated with good set of…
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It’s surprisingly difficult to disable comments globally in WordPress. Comments can be turned off for new posts in “Settings > Discussion” screen. However, all previously published posts would still retain their comment settings and need to be disabled individually under…
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Most theme developers have slowly moved away from using the_excerpt to display content on index, archive and search pages. I definitely have. Let’s go over quickly how the_excerpt works: If an excerpt is explicitly defined, it will be displayed (including…
