Dave Warfel 
Want to display a custom message on your WordPress login page? We’ll walk you through adding a custom login message to WordPress’ wp-login.php page. We’ll use existing styling provided in WordPress core, and the login_message filter to make it all happen. Adding a WordPress Custom Login Message to wp-login.php You could add this code directly …
In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to use Bootstrap to create a sticky footer that sticks to the bottom of the screen, even when there is very little content on the page. This is part 3 in the How to Create a Bootstrap WordPress Theme series. Part 1 – Loading Bootstrap & Font Awesome CSS & javascript …
In this tutorial, we walk you through modifying WordPress’ default wp_nav_menu to use Bootstrap’s dropdown menus. This is part 2 in the How to Create a Bootstrap WordPress Theme series. Part 1 – Loading Bootstrap & Font Awesome CSS & javascript Part 2 – Using Bootstrap dropdowns for your WordPress navigation Part 3 – Using Bootstrap to create a sticky …
In this tutorial, we’re going to show you how to create a CNAME record in GoDaddy. In our case, we are creating a CNAME record in GoDaddy, in order to complete the tutorial for creating a custom CDN URL subdomain with our hosting provider, WP Engine. What is a CNAME record? CNAME record stands for …
If you’ve setup a CDN for your WordPress site in WP Engine, you’ve probably noticed that those CDN URLs let anyone viewing the source code of your site know that your site is hosted with WP Engine and that you use NetDNA as your content delivery network. As a general website security rule, protecting any …
In this tutorial, we’re going to show you how to set up the CDN for your WordPress site in WP Engine. What is a CDN? CDN stands for Content Delivery Network. A content delivery network is a large system of servers located in data centers across the world. The purpose of a CDN is to …
I’ll admit, the default WordPress search engine is not the most robust. However, there are a few ways to customize it. One of the most common requests is, “How do you limit a WordPress search to a custom post type?” Below, I explain how to display results for one post type, as well as multiple …
Before I dive into all the great things about WordPress, why you should build your site with it (or switch if you’re on one of the other platforms)… let’s start with a few stats: CMS usage stats among top sites on the web (trends.builtwith.com) Same stats, different source (w3techs.com) Over 73 million wordpress.com sites in the world Over …
You’ve probably struggled with the default output of the WordPress gallery shortcode. It’s OK. We all have. By default, WordPress wraps the entire gallery in a div, and then further wraps the images in dl & dt tags. There are a few, excellent WordPress image gallery plugins that address gallery shortcode styling (File Gallery Plugin), …
In this tutorial, we walk you through how to load Bootstrap & Font Awesome‘s CSS files, as well as Bootstrap’s javascript plugins. We’ll be loading all resources from the Bootstrap CDN. All assets will be loaded from the functions.php file using the WordPress functions wp_enqueue_style & wp_enqueue_script. This is part 1 in the How to Create a …