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If you’re like a lot of us WordPress enthusiasts, you make your living using the CMS in some way. For me, it’s writing blog posts (hey, like this one!) that pays my bills. For others, it’s building themes and plugins. Still others earn a living wage by creating custom sites for...
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Last week I introduced you to the magic of AJAX and showed you how to use a few plugins to easily “AJAXify” your WordPress site. By “AJAXify” I mean using AJAX to change the page, already loaded in the browser, without refreshing the page. You can’t do that using pure...
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When you pull up your Twitter newsfeed, it’s easy for articles to get lost in the noise. Twitter cards are a feature that curtails this a bit, highlighting articles within a newsfeed with relevant metadata, such as titles and images. You’ve probably seen them in action from larger...
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If you’ve ever looked for a job in a creative field, you’ve likely seen those job ads. You know the ones that ask for your resume and your portfolio? As if a resume weren’t bad enough, right? Throw a portfolio into the mix and it’s enough to send creative types running for...
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Ever noticed how some websites, and especially web apps never require you to reload the page? The content loads automatically when you click a link, you log in from a little popup and everything is nice and fast. Isn’t that great? The magic that powers it is almost always powered by AJAX a...
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Outside of the content you write, your author page is your mark on the web. It’s your virtual footprint on any given blog or site you write for. Which means it’s important and you need to spend some time optimizing and customizing it. While many themes include author pages by default,...
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Version control is one of the most important things you can add to your workflow, not matter what type of WordPress development work you do. It solves so many problems while making your life so much easier. Version control isn’t just the ultimate undo button, perfect for anyone who ever...
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Custom Post Formats is a feature that was first introduced back in WordPress version 3.1. Basically, post formats act as a different way of grouping posts, allowing you to define the kind of post content you are publishing. Once posts are grouped by format, you can choose to arrange posts together,...
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How site visitors experience your website—more concisely known as the user experience or UX—is something you absolutely must consider. Without a good UX, no one will get to appreciate your innovative ideas, cool graphics, or top-notch products. And it’s not because they don’t try....
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When you build a website or blog, populating it with content is just one step of the process. For some, it’s as simple as writing up a few basic content pages, writing blog posts on a regular schedule, and that’s it. For others—especially those working in complex industries, their...
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Gravatar – It sounds kind of cool when it rolls off the tongue, right? The first time I ever read about Gravatar, I thought that it was some movie spin off. Even though I was wrong, the idea behind what a Gravatar is and how you can use it is still pretty cool. Whether you’re a new...
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As the most popular content management system (CMS) in the world WordPress is likely to be the first platform that many look to when considering a website. Whether the site is for them as an individual, business, non-profit or something else entirely, the WordPress community has most likely figured...
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