CategoryPlugins

March 21, 2014 — People recommend various tips on optimizing WordPress’ performance. All of them are effective ways, however, be careful when implementing any of these techniques. In this article, Hristo Pandjarov will cover some of the most common issues with various speed boosters that he has encountered and share solutions to help you fix those problems or find ways around them. Read more…

March 7, 2014 — WordPress powers websites for some of the world’s largest companies and is even being promoted as a platform to power the next generation of Web apps. In this article, David Smith will share with you how his team has used the PHP dependency-management tool Composer to streamline their development processes and to maintain their WordPress project dependencies across the development team consistently and reliably. Read more…

May 2, 2013 — A lightbox is one of those tools that work great on the desktop but often fail on small mobile devices. These days, finding a plugin that is responsive and that displays content right away is hard. For this reason, I created Magnific Popup, an open-source lightbox plugin focused on performance. Read more…

April 9, 2013 — In this article, Ariel Salminen is pleased to introduce Responsive Nav, a free and open-source JavaScript plugin. A solution that doesn’t require a big library and is released under the MIT License, so you can use it in all of your projects for free and without any restrictions. The solution is not one size fits all, nor is it meant to be. But for those who are looking for a solution that does one thing well, it’s definitely a good choice. Read more…

March 26, 2013 — Zen Coding is a revolutionary plugin that has helped many developers through the years and has now reached a new level: Emmet. The most productive and time-saving text-editor plugin you will ever see. By instantly expanding simple abbreviations into complex code snippets, Emmet can turn you into a more productive developer. Read more…

November 15, 2012 — WordPress is one of the most deployed content management systems around. One of the main reasons is the number of plugins available and the ease with which we can use the system. Read more…

September 12, 2012 — Siobhan McKeown spoke with the developers behind some of the biggest WordPress blogs on the planet. Now, she shares their secrets with you. Read more…

June 5, 2012 — This article will guide you through the process of creating a front-end page in WordPress that lists your authors. We’ll discuss why you would want to do this, we’ll introduce the WP_User_Query class, and then we’ll put it it all together Read more…

April 12, 2012 — In a post on her blog last year, WordPress designer, business woman and author, Lisa Sabin Wilson, talked about how thankful she is to be part of the WordPress economy. It’s an economy that thousands of people, the world over, are benefiting from (including me!). It is an economy built on free, open source software. Read more…

March 15, 2012 — The admin area is the heart of any WordPress-powered website. It’s where everything is controlled and where admin, editors, authors and contributors publish content to posts, pages and other custom post types. The default features of WordPress are fine for some website owners, although you may find that certain features need to be improved and others need to be added. Read more…