Schedule Changes in WordPress Customizer

In 2016 & 2017, WordPress has been constantly improving the Customizer—a feature used to make changes to your WordPress theme options, site design & other common settings. WordPress 4.9 introduces another big update to the Customizer—the ability to schedule changes to go live at a future time. Also, if you’d prefer, you can save Customizer changes …

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WordPress Facebook embed posts

In this article, we’re going to take a look at the quickest and easiest way to embed a Facebook post in your WordPress sidebar. We’re going to focus on using a method that is built into WordPress core, and does not require any WordPress plugins. You can embed Facebook posts from both people & Pages, …

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How to Embed Twitter Tweets in your WordPress Sidebar

In this article, we’re going to take a look at the quickest and easiest way to embed a tweet in your WordPress sidebar. Like most things with WordPress, there are multiples way to accomplish this. We’re going to focus on using the methods that are built into WordPress core, and don’t require a plugin. SEE …

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How to add a photo gallery to WordPress sidebar

With the upcoming release of WordPress 4.9, adding a photo gallery to your WordPress sidebar will become much easier. WordPress 4.9 adds a new Photo Gallery Widget to a growing list of available sidebar widgets. In this tutorial, I’ll explain how to add a photo gallery to your WordPress sidebar using this new widget, as …

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CodeMirror + WordPress

With the release of WordPress 4.9, you might have heard people talking about CodeMirror. This article will answer the question, “What is CodeMirror?”, as well as a handful of other questions surrounding how WordPress uses CodeMirror to provide a better code editing experience. What is CodeMirror? Directly from the CodeMirror website, it is described as… …

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WordPress 4.9 New Features

WordPress 4.9 is was released on November 15, 2017. Learn about all the new WordPress 4.9 features for everyday users AND developers.

SiteGround Review

I recently shared my decision to switch to SiteGround. As I’m writing this review, I have been a SiteGround customer for about three months. I have migrated 5 websites to their platform, and used both their GoGeek plan, as well as their intro-level StartUp plan. I’ve been using WordPress since 2009, and have used a …

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SiteGround Review

I was in the middle of writing a comprehensive SiteGround review when I found myself trying out their staging sites for the first time. I’ve had a great experience with their platform so far, but this is one area in which their managed WordPress hosting failed to live up to my expectations. NOTE: To be clear, …

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By now, you’re well aware of the popular design trend called the sticky header (aka: “sticky menu” or “fixed header”). It’s a technique employed by hundreds of thousands of websites, from tech giants like Facebook & Google, to mom-and-pop shops running on WordPress.

This article will explore all the possible ways of creating a sticky header in WordPress. First, I’ll talk about the arguments for and against sticky headers. Then, I’ll test out a handful of WordPress sticky header plugins, and offer up our top recommendation. And finally, for those who prefer not to use a plugin, we’ll explore a few ways to create a sticky header using code.

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How to create an addon domain in SiteGround

Learn how to create an addon domain in SiteGround’s cPanel so you can manage multiple domains on a single hosting plan.