This tutorial is not intended as an in-depth guide to WordPress speed optimization. It’s rather a quick and simple solution to put your website into a higher gear and noticeable boost it’s loading speed. Since this tutorial doesn’t require advanced development skills, even unexperienced users should be able to speed up WordPress websites with ease. […]
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Best WordPress cookies plugin in 2020 – WP GDPR compliance plugins reviewed
With GDPR in effect for quite some time now, almost all websites receiving visitors from the European Union must comply to that regulative. One aspect of the GDPR regulative enforces website owners to allow visitors to accept or reject cookies from their site. The common practice to display a Cookie consent notice when visitors visit […]
Animated number counter plugins for WordPress
An animated number counter is a great, eye catching way to display any kind of numeric statistic on your web site. To impress your visitors with important numerical data you can use one of the many plugins available. To make your choice easier, we tested and reviewed the best free animated number counter plugins currently […]
WordPress Custom Fields and get_post_meta Tutorial
In most cases, WordPress Custom Fields are used to display any kind additional information related to a certain post or page. Although there’s a wide variety of custom fields uses in WordPress, this tutorial will focus on the basic implementation. We’ll show you how to manually enable, create and display WordPress Custom Fields. Understanding WordPress […]
Using CSS nth child & clear both technique to create a div grid
There are many situations when developers need to create a grid of HTML elements, usually divs. The most frequent situation in WordPress is when you want to arrange your posts on a category page into a grid. Because of the variable height of each post, next row elements might not lay properly and cause the […]
Free WordPress recent posts widget – Which one is the best?
Almost every blog or magazine displays a list of recent posts in the sidebar, so should you. WordPress comes by default with a Recent Posts Widget, unfortunately with rather basic functionality. Fortunately, there’s a wide choice of third party recent posts widgets to replace the default one. We’ve done a Free WordPress recent posts widget […]
Create a WordPress custom category page for different blog categories
WordPress based Blogs and Magazines usually have their articles sorted into several categories. In some cases, it would be a good idea to create a visual difference between the categories. It would specially be the case when category topics or article types are different for each category. Custom WordPress categories would improve the visitors user […]
How to change the WordPress Category title and remove “Category:”
Tired of the default title format on WordPress Category pages and Archives? In this tutorial we’ll show you how to change the boring Category: Category name format to any custom title you want. You’ll learn how to remove “Category:” prefix, and display a different WordPress Category title for each post category. Introduction: Understanding the WordPress […]
WordPress File Manager Plugins – Top 3 Free File Management Plugins Reviewed
Every once in a while, WordPress developers encounter the need to manage files in their web site file system. Back in the days we used FTP clients for that purpose, but nowadays each modern hosting cPanel has an integrated File manager. Now, there’s a way to skip the process of logging into the cPanel each […]
Top rated Free WordPress Lightbox plugins in 2022
Lightbox is a overlay frame that displays a larger version of a photo when the visitor clicks on it’s thumbnail. WordPress by default doesn’t come with stock lightbox functionality. Therefore, one of the first steps when developing a photography related web site it to add the lightbox function. To achieve that, there’s a wide variety […]
How to display WordPress featured image tutorial
Since the very beginig WordPress, the featured image was one of the main elements of each post and page. It was mainly used as a thumbnail photo in post feeds such as categories, archives or search results. Nowadays there’s a wide variety of application for it, depending of the developer’s imagination and ideas. This tutorial […]
How to Customize Scrollbars with CSS in WordPress
Instead of the default boring browser scrollbar, you must have noticed a nicely designed, color matching scrollbar on some web sites. That’s a visually customizeds scroll bar and it enhances the overall look of the website. Here you’ll learn how to Customize Scrollbars with CSS in WordPress and make your web site stand out from […]
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