A problem I had recently was that I needed to give a support agent from a plugin company Admin-level access to a WordPress site. The cause was an obscure bug they couldn’t help with any other way. But I was left with two not-great options:
Helping readers of your WordPress site find more of your content that may be interesting to them is one of the most requested features in WordPress. And it’s one of the hardest things to do, from a processing perspective. Here is where the Jetpack plugin from WordPress.com and its Related Posts feature comes in.
Analyzing language for similarities of content takes a lot of computing resources.
Maybe you’ve never written PHP before. Maybe you’re thinking that you’re so experienced in it that this article isn’t for you. If you fall into either of those camps, please keep reading. My goal today is to give a pretty thorough understanding of what PHP arrays are, and to highlight a few less-known things that even experienced PHP developers may not have known or realized.
A Good Article Comparing Custom Fields and Custom Taxonomies →
A guy named Anh read our article on custom taxonomies and custom fields, and contacted us pointing to a similar article he wrote on his own site. His article’s good—what I like about it, specifically, are the bolded key points on the differences between taxonomies and fields,
One of the things that often confuses people new to WordPress (and web-tech in general) is that you can rely on WordPress to keep track of your images. Set some as featured, add them in your posts, all of that stuff. If you don’t know that, it’s so cool to discover. But then a second thing happens: you use this power,
SSH Access Using PuTTy: A Guide from SiteGround →
Last night, inspired partly by David’s recent Quick Guide, I migrated an existing WordPress site’s 180MB filesystem onto a new SiteGround hosting account in about five minutes.
I didn’t use rsync or WP-CLI,
There are lots of ways to migrate a WordPress site. Lots of plugins can do it. You can do it over simple (S)FTP. But the quickest way I know of is via rsync and WP-CLI. But that does come with an important proviso: you need to have access to a shell (via a simple local terminal or SSH) to both ends of the migration.
Dos and Don’ts of Accessible Design →
This is a really nice set of posters from Gov.uk on the ways to make intelligent design choices for users with different types of needs. And even better, they’ve also provided the full text for people who find images harder to access.
Internet comments are both the best and worst thing about this (virtual) place. Sometimes they’re full of vitriol or spam or trivial points, but sometimes they really supplement and improve the content to which they apply. WordPress makes it pretty easy to decide you’re done with comments on a given post, but it doesn’t really handle well a decision that you’re done with comments entirely on all posts.
Enqueuing is the WordPress way to add a stylesheet or JavaScript file on a page. We already published a Quick Guide about including your JavaScript in WordPress. This time, though, we’re adding an extra wrinkle: how do you only enqueue a JavaScript file on certain pages of your WordPress site. That’s the focus of this here Quick Guide.
