If you’re customizing a WordPress Theme, a child themes is critical to ensure your site and theme stay up to date. Unfortunately, not all themes are developed with child themes in mind. The most common things I tend to change
I always forget how to setup a WordPress Network install (this is also called a WordPress multisite install). Here’s my quickstart configuration check list.
I’m happy to announce I’ll be speaking at the 2013 WordCamp Milwaukee! My†presentation†is titled “Why is my site so freakin’ slow?!” We’re going to talk about simple ways to speed up your WordPress site. I plan on covering everything from
One of the downfalls of WordPress, and just about every other CMS on the planet, is that they are slow and processor/memory hungry. There’s a tremendous amount of overhead due to legacy functions, ability to extend (plugins and themes), and
Last month, my /wp-login.php page was hit about 7,000 times according to AwStat. That’s a little frighting… Unfortunately, there’s little that can be done to hide your wp-login.php page.
WordPress doesn’t have a maintenance mode. This makes me sad. Luckily, I have a quick fix. First, you’ll need to create a new directory and a temporary “Maintenance” page. For this example, let’s call it /maintenance/index.html. Fill the Maintenance page
Making sure all your guest are coming in through the same url can be important for SEO. Google may see your domain as two sites depending how you use the WWW and non-WWW url. If Google does pickup both your
Here is a simple Gist (originally created by https://github.com/Abban) that lays out all the necessary hooks to start customizing the new ‘Theme Customizer’ in WordPress 3.4