How and Why to Make a BASH Alias
This Quick Guide covers a common question whose lingo may confuse newbies: how do I make a Bash shell alias? For those for whom that sentence was Greek—let start here: Bash is the “Bourne Again Shell.”...
View ArticleDealing with Client Conflicts
Dealing with Client Conflicts → I’m quite confident a lot of WPShout readers are doing at least a little bit of “client work.” Whatever way you do that—even if you don’t do it using WordPress—problems...
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A Summary of Next-Gen Image Formats
A Summary of Next-Gen Image Formats → Most everyone in the WordPress world knows the basic image formats: use JPEGs for photos, PNGs for screenshots, and maybe WebP if you’re a Google-loving-hipster....
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WordPress Hooks, Actions, and Filters: What They Do and How They Work
This article introduces one of the most important topics in WordPress development: WordPress hooks, including action hooks and filter hooks. Hooks are at the core not only of how WordPress plugins...
View ArticleWordPress 5.7 Field Guide
WordPress 5.7 Field Guide → If there’s one post I *always* read about the latest/upcoming WordPress release, it’s these “field guide” posts on make.wordpress.org. They’re a concise summary of the major...
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WP Engine Review 2021: Great WordPress Hosting, But Not the Best
Debating whether WP Engine is the best hosting solution for your WordPress site(s)? When it comes to managed WordPress hosting, WP Engine is undeniably the biggest name in the space. Unlike a lot of...
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Re-licensing Gutenberg for Mobile Apps?
Re-licensing Gutenberg for Mobile Apps? → If you’re not into the legal complexities of “open source software” you can safely skip this. But if you’re also kind of interested in the legal complexities...
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Mac User? Try HazeOver
Mac User? Try HazeOver → I was just thinking the other day that I should send some love to some my favorite “not really WordPress” computer tools. And the first one I want to share is this...
View ArticleThe End of AMP?
The End of AMP? → I’m more than a little linking this story just because I hope it comes to pass, rather than because Dwayne Lefluer convinced me that he’s bringing real news that AMP’s end in nigh....
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Which is the Best SiteGround Plan? The WordPress Shared Hosting Comparison
WPShout was happily hosted on SiteGround for years, from about 2015 to 2020. We recently switched this site over for the slightly higher performance possibilities of a (significantly more expensive)...
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Dashboard Summary Plugin
Dashboard Summary Plugin → I stumbled across this little plugin from Greg Sweet a few weeks ago. I’ve run it on a few sites, and I think it’s just a great little free upgrade to the “At a Glance”...
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Accessible-Colors.com
Accessible-Colors.com → At a recent (virtual) Fort Collins WordPress meetup, someone shared this little site which I’ve never encountered before: Accessible-Colors.com. As you might guess from the...
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How to Set Your Site Icon (Favicon) in WordPress
One thing every WordPress site should have is a site icon, also called a “favicon”—the little tiny image that shows up in your browser tabs to let you tell one site from another. Ours at WPShout is a...
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Understanding The Loop: WordPress’s Way of Showing Posts
This article introduces one of the most important topics in WordPress development: the WordPress loop, or more commonly simply “the loop.” If you’re interested in under more of the key concepts of...
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Updating a Publishing Plugin to the Block Editor
Updating a Publishing Plugin to the Block Editor → Helen Hou-Sandí is certainly one of the most important people making (core) WordPress better, and she’s been doing it for years. So I take a pretty...
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Course: WordPress Theme Development (Core Concepts)
Welcome! WordPress themes are one of the most important topics that one must understand to be good at WordPress development. Themes underlie the entire visual half of WordPress sites, but often grow to...
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You Can Label an `if` in JavaScript
You Can Label an `if` in JavaScript → Interesting little article over at CSS Tricks from Alex Riviere. In it, he explains that it’s possible to label “if” (and other “block type”) statements in...
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Kinsta Review 2021: The Best Managed WordPress Hosting (Learn Why)
If you’re searching for the best managed WordPress hosting, Kinsta is probably a name you’ve come across. There’s a reason for that – Kinsta is one of, if not the, best managed WordPress hosts in...
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WordSesh 2021 is Approaching
WordSesh 2021 is Approaching → Next week(!) is WordSesh. For those who aren’t familiar, WordSesh is a free online-first (has been doing it since before it became how all events are ;p) WordPress...
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CSS Neon Lights
CSS Neon Lights → Longtime readers may have caught on to the fact that I’m a big sucker for cool CSS techniques I would have never come up with or figured out. And this is one more example on that....
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