This guest post is by Juliana Payson of InMotion Hosting As a longtime WordPress user, I have run many successful websites in the past and have invited many writers/contributors/developers to join my team. To make the process go smoothly, I had to give them access… Read More »
How to Create a Video and Image WordPress Slider with SlideDeck
Let’s face it, content sliders are awesome – when done right they conserve precious screen real-estate, their interactivity helps keep your visitors engaged and especially for bloggers, they can help keep your most valuable posts in front of new visitors to your site. There are… Read More »
How to Add Google Web Fonts in WordPress Themes the “Right” way
Google fonts are amazing free resource for web designers. In WPBv4, we have started using a popular Google Font combination: Oswald and Lora. Some of our users have asked us how to add Google Web fonts in WordPress themes. If you remember, we showed how… Read More »
How to Alter the WordPress RSS Widget’s Refresh Rate
As amazing as the built in WordPress RSS widget can be there are times that it just doesn’t update fast enough. Thanks to the fact that WordPress is so easy to customize we can easily change this. In this article, we will show you how… Read More »
How to Embed SWF in Your WordPress Posts
If you have ever tried embedding a Shockwave Flash file into your WordPress blog then you know it can get messy. Besides, if you are hosting your blog on WordPress.com then you are not going to be able to upload flash for security reasons. If… Read More »
WPBeginner v4 – New Design, Features, and What’s Next
Wow, it was just a little over 7 months ago, when I wrote about WPBeginner version 3.0. After a lot of hard work, reconsideration, and optimization, I am proud to present WPBeginner 4.0. We pushed this new design live right before BlogWorld, so roughly 2… Read More »
Making the Most out of WordCamps
This guest post is by Austin Gunter of WPEngine.com If you’ve spent enough time working with WordPress, you’ve come across the ubiquitous “WordCamps” and probably asked the question, “What the heck is a WordCamp?” Hopefully at this point you’re considering attending a local one, and… Read More »
Using Custom Post Types As Taxonomies In WordPress with CPT-onomies
If you have ever used custom post types then you know how powerful they can be when it comes to organizing your content. What do you do though if you want to organize one of your post types according to another? For example, let’s say… Read More »
What’s New in WordPress 3.4 (Features & Screenshots)
Yesterday, WordPress 3.4 was released. While we knew which features were coming, unlike other releases we did not keep a close tab of alpha and beta versions due to a very packed schedule. We would like to apologize to our audience for that. For those… Read More »
6 Reasons Why We Switched Away from Livefyre
Almost exactly a year from today, we decided to make a major switch in our site and ran Livefyre Commenting System to replace the default WordPress comments. It was a product that we fell in love with from the start, and we established great relationship… Read More »