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Getting people to comment on your WordPress content can be tricky. You publish great posts and ask thoughtful questions, but the comment section stays quiet. This often isn’t because visitors don’t have opinions, but because they hesitate to use their real names, especially on sensitive… Read More »

Ever spent hours perfecting your WordPress widget setup, only to realize you need to replicate it on another site? Or worse, lost all your carefully crafted widget settings during a theme change? We know firsthand how frustrating it can be to recreate widget configurations from… Read More »

Many of our readers ask us how to track user activity on their WordPress websites. But here’s another scenario: what if the user needs their own IP address? Maybe you sell a product that requires the customer to enter their IP address, or you write… Read More »

We strongly recommend that you never send newsletter emails directly from your WordPress site. While some WordPress plugins let you send emails using WordPress’s built-in PHP mail feature, this approach has significant problems. Your emails are likely to be undelivered or be sent to spam,… Read More »

Displaying related pages in WordPress improves user engagement and keeps visitors on your website longer. It can be hard to keep users interested, but showing them related posts is an excellent way to guide them to additional content they may find valuable. On WPBeginner, we… Read More »

WordPress 3.9 Beta 1 was released yesterday. This is a major release, developed under the plugins-as-features development model. In this article, we will show you what new features are coming in WordPress 3.9 along with their screenshots. WordPress 3.9 is still in beta, so some… Read More »

When developing WordPress themes, sometimes you may need user’s browser and operating system information to modify certain aspects of your design using CSS or jQuery. WordPress is capable of doing that for you. In this article, we will show you how to add user’s browser… Read More »

Seeing random numbers like ?p=123 in your website URL feels incredibly unprofessional. It confuses visitors and often makes them hesitate before clicking on your links. WordPress sometimes uses these number structures by default, which can unfortunately hold back your search engine rankings. Fixing your permalink… Read More »

Many WordPress beginners often mix up categories and tags and end up creating a lot of them, which can be confusing for users. However, you can easily resolve this by bulk moving posts to categories and tags. This can save you time and effort and… Read More »

Depending on your site’s demographic, it might be important for you to have a mobile-friendly website. You can do this by either using a responsive WordPress theme which adapts to different screen sizes / devices, or you can create a mobile-specific version of your site… Read More »