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Over 16+ years of WordPress and web development experience.
The team that advises some of the largest WordPress plugins in the industry used by over 25 million websites.
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Experience
Our editorial staff includes a dedicated team of programmers, writers, video creators, and editors with over 16 years of experience in WordPress, web hosting, eCommerce, SEO, and online marketing.
Our editorial team manages every piece of content we publish at WPBeginner. Unlike other copycat tutorial websites, every person in our team is a true WordPress practitioner. You can learn more about our Editorial Process here.
The team is led by the most well-known and well-respected WordPress expert in the world, Syed Balkhi. He graduated from University of Florida and have been building WordPress websites since 2006.
Syed is also the founder of some of the most popular WordPress plugins in the market.
About WPBeginner
WPBeginner is the largest free WordPress resource for beginners to learn WordPress. We are part of the Awesome Motive family and reach over 100 million visitors every year. Our content is fact checked and reviewed by our Editorial team for accuracy and integrity. You can learn more about us and our editorial process.
Earlier this month, we wrote an article on our vision for a better and more engaging WordPress plugin directory. This weekend, we are at Tybee Island, GA for the first ever annual WordPress Community Summit organized by the WordPress foundation. Otto (@otto42) finally unveiled the… Read More »
One of the issues we started noticing on our site was a group of spammers were commenting using our registered user’s username and email. It’s fairly easy to find both specially if a person has exchanged emails with you. This allowed a random user to… Read More »
Are you wondering what is a WordPress theme framework and if you should be using one? WordPress theme frameworks help developers make beautiful child themes more quickly. However, they come with their own advantages and disadvantages that you may want to consider. In this article,… Read More »
Do you need to add custom meta fields to custom taxonomies in WordPress? Custom taxonomies let you organize your content beyond categories and tags. Sometimes it’s useful to add additional fields to describe them. In this article, we’ll show you how to add additional meta… Read More »
Looking to start a new blog, switch hosting providers, or transfer from WordPress.com? Let us make it easy for you. Our friends over at Bluehost has agreed to offer all WPBeginner users a limited time deal: 50% discount and a free domain name. You can… Read More »
There are many tutorials out there that shows you how to password protect your website content. Many of those utilize complex membership plugins that require user registration. But what if you just want to password protect your site without user registration? Let’s say you have… Read More »
The best part about WordPress is the plugins. They give you the ability to extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine. There are over 21,000 plugins in the WordPress plugins repository. Over the past few months, I (Syed) have been meaning to write… Read More »
Recently one of our users reported a very odd issue with their install. When writing a post, they could not see anything they were writing. Because the text of the post editor was white. More importantly, all of the visual editor buttons were missing, and… Read More »
About a year ago, we wrote an opinion post here at WPBeginner with the title “Should Blogroll ‘Links’ be removed in favor of WordPress menus?“. We got a decent feedback in the comments and our social media channels (twitter and facebook). Recently while browsing through… Read More »
Are you looking for a way to add a WordPress page slug in the body class of your theme? Adding a page slug in the WordPress theme lets you do all the customizations you want without any complications. You can easily change the colors, fonts,… Read More »