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Installing WordPress Locally on OS X
How do you run WordPress locally? Of course, you can open any old HTML file in your browser, but WordPress runs on PHP, so how do we setup your machine to parse these files? In today’s tutorial, we’re...
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Installing WordPress Locally on Windows
Previously, you were introduced to self hosted WordPress, but how do you run WordPress locally? Of course, you can open any old HTML file in your browser, but WordPress runs on PHP, so how do we setup...
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Installing WordPress Locally with Ubuntu 12.04
Ubuntu is easily the most popular Linux distro, in fact, with even Steam soon to be supported. This tutorial will cover the need-to-know details, including the packages you require. I’ve run this on a...
View ArticleWordPress Theme Best Practices
WordPress Themes are fantastic. They let users take an easy-to-use CMS and make it look beautiful. The barrier to entry on the internet is lower than it has ever been, and WordPress has been a huge...
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Plugins That Complement Your Theme Development
When you’re developing themes for WordPress there are lots of tools that can help you out and improve your development process. There are many plugins that you can install on your development...
View ArticleGive Back by Contributing to the WordPress Community
If you’re running a WordPress Theme Shop then you’re in the enviable position of having a free platform that you can build your business around. The hard work of building the CMS is taken care of for...
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Install WordPress Locally Without Changing System Settings
Instead, you could use a virtual machine. Here are a couple of options you can try. Just to be clear, what we talking about here, is setting up your own computer with: A web server (Apache) PHP A...
View Article15 Effective Tips to Speed Up a WordPress Site
It’s frustrating for visitors. Studies show that customers generally tend to leave a slow-loading site and go to the competitor’s website in turn. Google also mentioned the use of page load speed as...
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Keep it Safe! Easy Options for WordPress Backups
There are numerous reasons why you’d want a backup; in case your site gets hacked, you want to move hosts, or in the event that something disastrous should happen. You can backup by hand, through a...
View ArticleDevelopment & Staging Part 1: What and Why?
I get asked by developers about my own, personal development environment. I revel in the joyous moment when I get to tell them I don’t have one. At least I don’t have a staged server on my computer...
View ArticleFast and Efficient WordPress Theme Debugging
The primary way to check your code is to go through a debugging process. Here’s the thing about debugging: there’s no single process that is going to work for every project. You really have to take...
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Development & Staging Part 2: Your Local Machine
A question I get regularly from WordPress developers is how I stage my own development environment. To be perfectly honest, that’s like asking if someone can check out my bathroom – it’s sorta personal...
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How to Internationalize a WordPress Theme
We’re living in a world where software made on one side of the world can be used on the opposite side. What this means for you, as WordPress developers, is that it’s important to plan to...
View ArticleDevelopment & Staging Part 3: Hosted Installation
In this second part of the series I’ll walk you through how I create a development environment for my client sites. I typically use this scenario when the client has a live site and wants to see...
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How to Create a Video Gallery in WordPress
I have run into several projects over the last year where I’ve had the need to develop a gallery system from scratch. While there are plenty of plugins that can do much of this already, you may need to...
View ArticleRapid Prototyping: A Model For Killer WordPress Sites
One of the keys to my personal success as a web developer has been that I have been able to consistently create quality designs quickly. Before jumping into the details I want to emphasize the...
View ArticleHow to Create a Permalink After the Excerpt and Other Fancy Tricks
The standard “…”, “Read more…”, or “Continue reading…” do not do anything to help search engines understand the content at the other end of the link. Some themes load the excerpt functionality when the...
View ArticleRapid Prototyping Part 2: A Model for Killer WordPress Sites
To recap, in part one I talked a lot about the methodology itself – comparing and contrasting it to other ways of doing the same thing, and getting into the nuts of bolts of how a project might look....
View ArticleTop Code Snippets for WordPress to Speed Up Your Theme Development
You can’t commit everything to memory (and if you have that magic, I hate you), so I’ve found it critical to keep a nice little library of code available. This isn’t everything of course, but these are...
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