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Ever wondered if it’s possible to convert from one custom post type to another? Yes it is! This can be very useful for example when switching themes. One theme can have a particular custom post type implemented while the new one won’t have it, or will have it under a
In the simplest of terms, a business directory is a list of businesses in a certain industry, niche, area, etc. It’s used by people who are interested in one of those fields to find potential businesses that can help meet their needs. While it may seem simple enough, there’s a
This week I needed to set up automatic emails for new users who sign up for a demo of my plugin WP RSS Aggregator. The use case is that I want to ask these users for feedback one day after they signed up for the
If you want not only to schedule the publish date of a post or custom post type in WordPress, but also the expiration date, there are a few plugins that can help you out. These plugins will enable the setting of a time span for posts.
Lately I’ve been experimenting more and more with WordPress Multisite, mostly for the purpose of creating test sites for my plugins.
Good information about WordPress Multisite can be hard to come by, but I found the best tutorials, plugins and themes over at WPMUdev.
Having a site that loads fast is very important, and we need the right tools to test how fast our website is loading. If it’s not fast, it’s also crucial to know what is providing the bottleneck.
Here are some of my favorite services for analysing website performance.
Users are increasingly wary of themes and plugins that might look good but then prove difficult to use or are riddled with bugs.
One surefire way to assuage those doubts is to create a test drive site for them to try out your theme or plugin, then only download
Some websites need to serve different content to people depending on the country or geographic location they sign in from. Usually we associate something like this with multilingual considerations, but it’s not always the case. Sometimes the same language is used throughout, but the content served is different.
Lets
The readme.txt file is an essential file when submitting plugins to the WordPress.org repository.
There is an excellent article on Smashing Magazine which highlights all the important things you need to know when creating a readme.txt file.
When you’re ready and want to preview how the file will look into
If you’re creating a WordPress plugin or theme for distribution outside the .org repository, one of the best things you can do is implement auto updates. Here are a few ways of making that work.
An optimized site means two things: fast loading times and less resources needed. The benefits of having a well-performing website are many but the most important ones are: improved user experience, better ranking in the search engines and last, but not least, lower hosting expenses. Below, I will show you
Cron runs a lot of useful functions in the background for us, but WordPress Cron can sometimes be limiting for us. So here are a few plugins that help take cron to the next level and make things easier to manage.
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