Moving your WordPress site to another location can be a stressful and fiddly experience, not helped by the fact you can’t just simply move your files and database. No, that’s just not how WordPress works. Fortunately, WordPress has a handy “Import” and “Export” tool built in. But unfortunately, it’ll only suit some basic requirements and you need to improvise a… Read More »How to Move Content From One WordPress Site to Another
The WordPress media library can do a lot more than just store your media files. It is a powerful tool that covers all of your media management needs and more, and I’m going to tell you everything you need to know about it. In this article, I’ll explain how you can leverage your library to its full potential – discussing… Read More »9 Hidden Features in the WordPress Media Library Only Power Users Know
Testing environments provide an easy and relatively inexpensive way to test themes, plugins and even new releases of WordPress without breaking your live site. Many site admins take advantage of these environments where they can do thorough testing before committing changes to a site. If you’ve ever activated a new plugin or upgraded to a new version of WordPress only… Read More »Top 8 Best Localhost Testing Environments for WordPress
Contact Form 7 is a fantastic free plugin for adding contact forms to a WordPress site. But despite its ease of use and reliability, it’s missing a lot of features out-of-the-box. I recently showed how you can style Contact Form 7 with the help of plugins. In this post, I’ll show you how to extend Contact Form 7 even further to… Read More »7 Useful Plugins for Adding Features to Contact Form 7
The WordPress search function is much maligned and there are numerous plugins available to add enhancements but they don’t always provide what you want, especially if you are trying to build a secondary search engine that has specific requirements. In this article, we’ll look at how easy it is to build your own custom WordPress search and discover some surprising… Read More »Build Your Own Custom WordPress Search
AJAX has become all the rage in the past couple of years and for good reason. AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a way to have a “conversation” with the server and display the results without reloading the page. This technique allows us to refresh “Like” counters, add items to a shopping cart, create dynamic forms and much more – all without… Read More »Loading WordPress Posts Dynamically With AJAX
Thanks to the open source nature of WordPress, anyone – including hackers – can look up the typical file structure of a WordPress website and know exactly where to start an attack. Fortunately, rearranging your core WordPress file structure is one method you can employ from your security arsenal to combat hacks and bolster your site’s defenses. So in this… Read More »How to Change Your WordPress File and Directory Structure
Contact Form 7 is an incredibly popular plugin for building WordPress contact forms with over 3 million active installs. It supports the building of forms without HTML coding. Forms can include CAPTCHAs, file upload, and quiz fields. While Contact Form 7’s default markup and style are fine for most basic contact forms, often you’ll want to change it. Improving Contact… Read More »3 Best Plugins for Customizing Contact Form 7 Forms in WordPress
How many people would you hand your house keys to and let get into anything that they want? The same can be said about your WordPress account and its users. In this article, we explore some of the easiest ways to limit access for WP users using the admin, code, and plugins. If you considered your WordPress site like an… Read More »How to Limit Access to Your WordPress Dashboard
Featuring video on your site can be a powerful way to show – and not just tell – visitors what your site is all about. Videos. They’re everywhere. Whether it be on a website, app, social media, or YouTube. They grab our attention, make us watch, and we get hooked. So yes — featuring a video on your WordPress site… Read More »The Ultimate Mega Guide to Using Video With WordPress