Dave Warfel 
The WordPress tag cloud is one of the default widgets shipped with WordPress core. It’s not something you often see with corporate or business sites, but is still somewhat useful for typical blogs, and perhaps even for ecommerce stores with 100+ items. Sometimes theme developers don’t pay much attention to the styles that are applied to …
Bluehost is one of the big names in WordPress hosting. In fact, as of November 2015, it is the only host that WordPress.org officially recommends on its hosting page. This will change, as they are in the process of revamping that page, but I know many of you guys host WordPress on Bluehost. While I …
The managed WordPress hosting market is a competitive one. Among one of the most popular WordPress hosts is WP Engine. If you find yourself shopping for a new host, or have recently switched to WP Engine, and need to migrate your website to their platform, I’ll walk you through the process, step-by-step. While some website …
We’re starting something new here at WP Smackdown. Each month, we’re on the lookout for WordPress coupons, deals & discounts on your favorite WordPress products. Themes, plugins, hosting, ebooks… whatever we can find. We only recommend products that we believe in. While we sometimes showcase multiple solutions that solve the same problem, we understand there are …
There are quite a few WordPress backup services out there. And while there are a few free plugins that will do a great job, there’s one backup solution that you won’t find in the WordPress plugin repository: CodeGuard. CodeGuard is a third-party website backup solution. It works with all websites, regardless of which CMS or platform it is …
Maintaining regular backups of your WordPress site is an absolute must for all website owners. Even the smallest of sites that rarely gets updated should still be performing regular backups of both the files & database. The emergence of managed WordPress hosting companies have made many sites safer than before, but security vulnerabilities and hardware failures can …
When trying to upload a file in WordPress, you might see the error message, “Sorry, this file type is not permitted for security reasons.” By default, WordPress only allows you to upload certain filetypes. Most common file types for images & Microsoft Office documents are allowed (jump down to the full list). But let’s take a …
For those of us who setup new WordPress installations frequently, installing the same plugins over and over again can get tedious. But we all know there’s a handful of essentials that we include on every site we build. I’ve found the best way to batch install WordPress plugins is by using WPCore. WPCore is a …
If you didn’t already know, you can add WordPress widgets to your template files to display them anywhere on your site. The Jetpack plugin gives us a handful of useful widgets, but in order to use them outside of the sidebar, we need to know their PHP class names. I couldn’t find a list anywhere, but …
Have you ever wanted to use a WordPress’ widget somewhere other than your sidebar? WordPress has a template tag called the_widget() which allows you to add a widget directly in your template files, wherever you’d like. Insert Widget in Template File First, locate the file where you want your widget to appear. Second, you’ll need the PHP class …