The gallery shortcode allows you to add a new gallery to your WordPress site’s page or post. However, you often need to style it in a certain way so that it inherits the styles of your existing theme to ensure better user experience. The following code snippet does just that and adds a pleasant hover […]
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Create a WordPress Theme from Scratch with Underscores
If you are a WordPress enthusiast and wish to learn how to make a WordPress theme from scratch and what are the steps to create such a theme, you may wish to start with one of the available starter themes. This will undoubtedly save you a lot of time and as the folks behind Underscores […]
WordPress Database Cleanup for Increased Website Performance
There is a good chance you will need to clean up your WordPress installation if you have been using the CMS for some time. WordPress website speed optimization allows you to significantly reduce the size of your database, resulting in a substantial speed improvement and allowing for smaller backups. Below we outline the ways in […]
WordPress Migration
If you own or maintain a WordPress website, there is a very high probability that you have already considered looking for a new hosting company on more than one occasion. This is the reason we put together this tutorial for migrating a WordPress website. Perhaps you are fed up with the slow performance of your […]
Role of UI and UX in Designing a WordPress Website
The two of the most popular buzzwords, UI and UX have been in circulation for quite some time already and they continue to play an important role in designing a WordPress website. In general conversation they are often used interchangeably but although compatible, these are two completely different terms. The following sheds some light on […]
How to Automatically Blacklist IP Addresses in WordPress
WordPress isn’t the most insecure CMS there is although many people claim it to be so. It is the popularity and the wide use of the CMS that attracts most attention from hackers. The number of brute force attacks WordPress users are subjected to have been on the rise in recent years. We often see […]