6 Most Popular WordPress Themes at WordPress.org - WordPress.org is still the largest repository of WordPress themes on the web. Themeforest.net is catching up but as it is a premium theme site only there is a natural impediment to growth. While themes with all the bells and whistles are great, most new webmasters are very price sensitive. This is what gives WordPress.org the … Continue reading "6 Most Popular WordPress Themes at WordPress.org"
10 Fastest WordPress Themes 2020 - How Do We Evaluate What Is a Fast WordPress Theme? The accelerating rate of WordPress theme development has made it difficult for website owners to make a choice as to which theme to use. The consensus was to just pick what you as a user thought looked good or a theme that had the bells … 
Gutenberg WordPress Editor - It has been just over a year since we last talked about the Gutenberg WordPress Editor. In that article we explain what Gutenberg is and why it matters. Has anything changed since then? What is Gutenberg WordPress Editor? As we explained in the original article Gutenberg is a new block based editor that comes packaged … 
Free Alternatives to Avada WordPress Theme - Are there any Free Alternative Themes to Avada Theme? The short answer is no but keep reading. Avada is the best selling theme in the history of WordPress for a reason. This theme has been around for seven years now and has been in full and constant development the whole time. The team behind Avada … Continue reading "Free Alternatives to Avada WordPress Theme"
How Do I Find a Great WordPress Theme? - If there is a question we get asked more than any about Themes it would have to be What are the best WordPress themes? Answer: The best theme is the theme that satisfies your needs and looks the way you want your site to look. OK, so that sounds like a bit of a cop … 
WordPress SEO Plugins 2019 Comparison - What is the Best Free SEO Plugin? The SEO Framework is now the best free SEO Plugin for 2019. That is a huge claim so I guess we better justify it. This plugin might not do everything that the big wigs in the WordPress SEO space do but it is not far off. Install it … 
Getting Started With WordPress Theme Development - Why WordPress Theme Development? WordPress is the most popular CMS currently available, so if you want exposure for your project why wouldn’t you develop it in WordPress. If you already know Java, HTML and CSS and already use those skills to make websites then WordPress could be the next logic step. While knowing PHP is … Continue reading "Getting Started With WordPress Theme Development"
WordPress Security Update and Features – Vulnerabilities Have Been Plugged - As of May 7th, WordPress’ content management system (CMS) has a brand-new set of security features which adds a higher level of protection lots of its users say they wanted years ago. These new provisions were added along with the official release of the updated WordPress 5.2, which came out on the same day. The … Continue reading "WordPress Security Update and Features – Vulnerabilities Have Been Plugged"
WordPress Xmlrpc.php Why You Need To Disable It Right Now! - What is the Xmlrpc.php File and What Does it Do? The xmlrpc.php file was implemented to let let webmasters interact with their sites. For all intense and purposes it acted like an API. A really bad and insecure one. “RPC” stands for Remote Procedure Call, a method that uses XML passed via HTTP as the … Continue reading "WordPress Xmlrpc.php Why You Need To Disable It Right Now!"
5 WordPress Mistakes You Need To Avoid - If you have found this site, then you probably already know what WordPress is and what it does. It is easily the most popular CMS on the web and looks like it will be for a long time to come. Its ease of use, simplicity to set up and modify and the plethora of plugins … 
How to Choose a WordPress Theme? - How do I choose a WordPress theme? Is possibly the most question I am most asked as a WordPress developer. While the answer is not all that technical, what it highlights is that there is a lot of choice and therefore complexity, which leads to confusion. I will be breaking the answer down into 10 … 
Google’s AMP Plugin For WordPress Now Supports AMP Stories - What is AMP? We won’t go to deeply into what AMP is here but as a brief guide it is a Google hosted subset of html that speeds up the user mobile experience on your website. Is it good? Yes it is but it has its drawbacks. It definitely makes the mobile experience much faster … Continue reading "Google’s AMP Plugin For WordPress Now Supports AMP Stories"
Gutenberg Editor vs Classic Editor - Love it or Hate it Gutenberg is here The new Gutenberg editor has divided the WordPress community like no other change in the history of WordPress. Some people love it but many and I would say most people are not loving it. This is partly due to the innate human resistance to change but also … 
WordPress Theme Detection - What are the difficulties in detecting a WordPress theme? Having used and played with WordPress for about 10 years one of the most common questions I get asked is. How do I find out what theme a particular WordPress site is using? This sounds like it should be something a person who has been using …