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How to Change WordPress Password in phpMyAdmin (a cPanel tool)
How to Change WordPress Password in phpMyAdmin (a cPanel tool) →In this Quick Guide, we’ll walk you through how to change a WordPress user’s password using phpMyAdmin, a tool found in most webhosting...
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PHP Math Functions: Understanding the Basics
Our focus today is PHP math. Or “PHP maths,” if you prefer British English. We’re not going to teach you the basics of mathematics itself, but just explore some of the common ways we use math in our...
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We were on the BoldLife podcast!
We were on the BoldLife podcast! →We were on the BoldLife podcast. It was a great time. We (well, especially Fred) talked a length about the complex reality of where generous human people meet the...
View ArticleSimple WP_Query Example: Using a Shortcode to Display Post Titles
In this video and text Quick Guide, we present a basic use of WP_Query inside a WordPress shortcode, to show the post titles of the five most recently published posts. We’ve designed this Quick Guide...
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How to Create and Use WordPress Custom Fields
This article describes how to work with WordPress custom fields, also called post meta. In it, we describe how to use WordPress’s post meta PHP functions, especially get_post_meta() and...
View ArticleUnderstand Types of WordPress Caching
Understand Types of WordPress Caching →This is a solid little article from the folks over at SpinupWP about caching in WordPress. “Caching” is one of the most simply and complicated words, almost...
View ArticleRecover WordPress Password: Get a Password Reset Email
In this Quick Guide, we’ll help you get a WordPress password reset email. With that email from your WordPress site, you should be able to recover your WordPress password. It’s not a perfect system, but...
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Understand PHP Modulo: Tricks with Division Remainders
When I learned math, I didn’t really understand the modulus function. In fact, it was until I learned PHP that I understood the value of a remainder from division. PHP’s role in making websites makes...
View ArticleAn Advisory Board for WordPress
An Advisory Board for WordPress →I like the direction that Josepha Haden is pushing WordPress. She’s making strides to put the whole project on an even better trajectory. Toward better collaboration,...
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WordPress Profile Picture without Gravatar
I was recently working on setting up a site for a personal project and was surprised to discover that there was no place in the theme to add a custom picture for my user bio. I figured out what I...
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How to Change Your Default Category From “Uncategorized” in WordPress
In this text and video Quick Guide, we’ll show you how to change your WordPress default category from “Uncategorized” to something custom!Why You’d Want to Change Your WordPress Default...
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Understand WordPress Scheduled Tasks: WP Cron Makes Sense
Sometimes you’ll hear, at a meetup for example, this word “cron” (or is it kron? “Chron”?!) around WordPress. Today we’ll understand what the heck it is and what it helps us do. WordPress scheduled...
View ArticleManaging Multiple Sites: WordPress Multisite vs Separate Installations
Managing Multiple Sites: WordPress Multisite vs Separate Installations →I was recently working on a client project where I was faced with the question: should we have one WordPress multisite...
View ArticleEasier Lazy Loading (for Chrome)
Easier Lazy Loading (for Chrome) →So, Chome 76 (or later. But what version of Chrome am I running anyway?) is getting a feature that would have saved me at least a little work on a few client projects....
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WordPress Facebook Widget: Add FB to Your Sidebar
Many people and businesses are proud of their Facebook page. They want to be able to market all the great reviews, posts, etc that they’ve earn on Facebook. WordPress does many things for you, so...
View ArticleInstall WordPress with a Managed Database on Digital Ocean
Install WordPress with a Managed Database on Digital Ocean →Digital Ocean, a popular VPS hosting provider, recently announced a hosted-MySQL platform. The reasons you may want to do use this (vs...
View ArticleHow to Migrate a WordPress Site with the Duplicator Plugin
WordPress has a lot of migration systems. We’ve had lots of good experiences with All-in-One WP Migration, some people swear by WP Migrate DB Pro, and others are partial to WP-CLI’s terminal-based...
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WP Cron in Practice: wp_schedule_event Examples + More
A few weeks ago we talked about what “cron jobs” were in WordPress and beyond. That tutorial about what “WordPress scheduled tasks” are hopefully gave you a good understanding of some of the things...
View ArticleJustin Tadlock Joins WP Tavern
Justin Tadlock Joins WP Tavern →Back in 2007, when I was just coming to terms with WordPress, Justin Tadlock was out at the forefront of what I understood WordPress to be. In the (gosh!) 12 years...
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How to Change Your Permalink Settings
When you create a new page or post on your site, WordPress automatically creates a new entity called a “permalink” that directs to your new content. Since search engines use the URLs of your links as a...
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