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WordPress 5.6 Field Guide
WordPress 5.6 Field Guide →Always a worthy read, the Field Guide for the next version WordPress—5.6—is here. The new theme, application passwords being integrated, and a load of incremental updates are...
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How to Enlarge an Image in WordPress (Lightboxes!)
Whether you’re writing about technical topics or something even more visually demanding like art, sometimes you just want to make a picture bigger in WordPress. That can mean a number of things, from...
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Automattic Acquires MailPoet
Automattic Acquires MailPoet →Without knowing this news, MailPoet came up organically last night in a discussion we were having at the Fort Collins WordPress Meetup. Someone was looking to send an...
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How to Replace Images or Media Files on a WordPress
If you find yourself working with a lot of images or other media files in WordPress, chances are good that at some point you’ll need to change a file’s content while still keeping links and image...
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Armando & Full Site Editing Themes
Armando & Full Site Editing Themes →This article from Justin Tadlock over at WP Tavern caught my attention over holiday break. While Justin’s been talking about full-site editing themes for a...
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How to Connect UpdraftPlus to Dropbox
WordPress sites have lots of good backup options. But if you’re looking to save money on file-storage (and you already have a Dropbox account) I can’t recommend UpdraftPlus much more highly. It is...
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Are you competing with WordPress.com?
Are you competing with WordPress.com? →You may have seen the headlines about how WordPress.com is coming for all the freelancers. For those that didn’t see it, WordPress.com (owned by a company called...
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A Quick Tour of Full-Site Editing in WordPress
A Quick Tour of Full-Site Editing in WordPress →If you saw my post from last week looking at full-site editing you might wonder what it’s like. And if you’re lazy/busy like me, you probably haven’t yet...
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State of CSS, 2020
State of CSS, 2020 →Long time readers will know that I consider myself a CSS outsider. I learned how to do it about 10 years ago, and have just enough skills to get by today. So I read with interest...
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Cool CSS Paper Effects →It’s hard for me to pass up cool-looking tricks, and this is now exception. This sweet little post from Suzanne Aitchison is just three different little CodePens that show off...
View ArticlePhpStorm for WordPress Tips
PhpStorm for WordPress Tips →I’ve been using PhpStorm for PHP + WordPress development for gosh, at least 5 years now. For those who aren’t familiar, PhpStorm is a PHP-specific IDE (“integrated...
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When & How to Use Noopener Noreferrer in WordPress
It’s pretty common for WordPress folks to start looking harder at their page’s HTML from time to time. If you find yourself doing that, you may see this rel="noreferrer noopener" on some links. What’s...
View ArticleThe WP Briefing Podcast
The WP Briefing Podcast →Here we are sharing news of a podcast so new that you probably can’t even easily subscribe to in your podcast player. (Or at least I failed. Because they’re still...
View ArticleState of Website Builders
State of Website Builders →I think it’s a good practice for us WordPress Pros to at least keep an eye on what’s going on the world of websites outside of our chosen CMS. A quick and effective way to...
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Where are WordPress Pages Stored & How to Find Them
It’s a very reasonable question: where are WordPress pages stored? There are a lot of ways to answer it though. Without getting too pedantic, we really need to understand a few different levels of the...
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SiteGround Review 2021: Still the Best Shared WordPress Host
Trying to decide whether SiteGround is the right place to host your WordPress site? We’ve had this SiteGround review published for over five years now, updating it as needed. Currently, this review...
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Why I Still Use RSS
Why I Still Use RSS → I share this story from Marc at atthis.link for two reasons: that it is itself interesting and useful, and because I’ve also been using RSS lately and enjoying its respectfulness....
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Google Tricks Cheatsheet
Google Tricks Cheatsheet → I use Google a lot. You probably do too. But have you ever thought about tricks that’d make you better at Googling? I honestly don’t much of the time. And that’s partly down...
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Defer Parsing of JavaScript in WordPress
It’s a common complaint when you run your WordPress site through any “page speed score” tool: “defer parsing of JavaScript” and/or “remove render-blocking JavaScript.” Today, building on an article...
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Is CSS float deprecated?
Is CSS float deprecated? → As a perennial CSS newbie (who kind of had skills a decade ago) I appreciated this short article from Robin Rendle about when (translation: how little) you should use the...
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