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Pros Of Opting For Custom WordPress Development

WordPress was started as a blogging platform and was responsible for creating personal blogs and it made it possible to integrate it with other websites. With time, WordPress has become an effective solution to build websites and you can point it to the flexibility it offers and the large number of extensions it comes with. Again, with the use of WooCommerce plugin, it has also helped to build eCommerce solutions like never before. It is also possible to build web portals, ERP and CRM solutions using WordPress.

WordPress brings in a number of benefits to the customers, businesses and developers and some of them have been explained below:

Bring uniqueness

When you are upto customizing WordPress site, just by making few tweaks to the existing website or building one from scratch, you will be able to apply uniqueness in features, design, functions and all that things you developed based on bespoke needs.

Get the exact results

It is possible for you to build themes for WordPress your way or you can pick one from the existing ones and then modify it. You will be able to include the needed features and maintain the look and feel that you expect from it.

Have a safe and secure website

Customization makes the developer to change the code and take a peep into security and safety aspects by including latest security code, taking care of no loophole, best security practices and implementation of patches that are latest released for WordPress platform.

Some additional security plugins can be added by WordPress developers based on the nature of the website and ensure to offer security solutions that are tailor-made.

Balanced features and functionality

Third-party developers have developed standard themes and they focus to address the needs of clients and customers looking for different needs. so the standard themes come with large number of functionality and features to cater different business needs.

When you are trying to build a custom solution by building everything from scratch, then it is for sure that there will be only those functions and features that the business needs.

Right amount of plugins

Just like the number of features and functionality, when you opt to have a customized WordPress website, there will be limited number of plugins or extensions to match the bespoke needs. This leads to improved interaction and improved leading speed.

WordPress development comes with a number of misconceptions too. Most of them are baseless and have no supporting information. You can find them here.

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What To Choose: Custom WordPress Development Or Pre-Built WordPress Themes

Whether to choose a pre-built theme or go for custom development is up to you. This can be decided on the basis of the needs you have. In case you are in hurry or just not in a mood for spending more money, go for pre-built ones. If you wish to be more specific, custom development is your deal.

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Top Tools For WordPress Development And Maintenance Of Site

If you think building and maintaining a WordPress website is a walk in the park then you are mistaken. This is a tough job and involves a number of tasks. This is time consuming too and so the speed at which you can get it done will indicate the number of clients you can have and offer satisfying services over a year.

No doubt there are a number of tools which you can use to make the development and maintenance tasks better. So let’s check on them here:

Local development environments

You can test themes, site changes and plugins on local WordPress installs. You can use them and work from anywhere without the need of an internet connection.

DesktopServer

This is clearly the best choice that falls under this category. This is mainly focused on WordPress development rather than taking the web development term broadly. You can have a website created within few seconds that too with WordPress files and complete database. Additionally, you can have remote deployment, site imports and a good number of advanced features with this tool.

XAMPP

If DesktopServer is not available you can have an alternative named XAMPP. Within no time, it will set up MySQL environment and local Apache server for you. You don’t have to install the components one by one and so everything gets set up quickly.

Boilerplates

Boilerplates are nothing but some chunks of codes which can be reused to create programs without doing much programming. In WordPress, you can find a good number of options.

Underscores

Underscores are the boilerplate which you can use for theme development. It has layouts, templates and less CSS and you can just use them to start with. If you wish to create a blog or portfolio or a magazine, Underscores can help you with it.

WordPress Plugin Boilerplate

Like Underscores help with theme development, this one helps with plugins. It is well-organized, matching the coding standards and is object-oriented. So all you have to do us to put in the plugin information and in no time you will receive a compressed zip file for the customized plugin.

Code editors, browser development tools, database management, FTP clients and backup tools are the others which can help with WordPress development. All you need to take care is that you don’t make mistakes when developing. To help you out, some of the common mistakes have been mentioned here.

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Top 4 Free WordPress Plugins To Use For Development

Plugins play a crucial role when it comes to WordPress development. They help to achieve the needed features and functionalities in your website without costing you much effort and time. The use of free plugins can help you reduce the development costs too.

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WordPress Development And The Future With Gutenberg

Gutenberg is a new project which will soon join WordPress Core and help the users to build websites, write contents and design websites in a better way. It is going to have a visible impact on WordPress development.

To start with let’s see what Gutenberg is all about.

You will find Gutenberg available in two forms like Gutenberg GitHub Repo and Gutenberg WordPress Plugin. In the former one, developers get to develop, create pull requests, report issues and make documentation better. In the later one, you get to test the projects.

Gutenberg changes everything

With the merger of Gutenberg with WordPress Core, a number of things will change. This can lead a path to new WordPress themes, interaction, plugins and site building in a matter of a year or two.

Impact on WordPress themes

The WordPress theme industry is going to witness the biggest change. The WordPress developers may see changes with break the entire code-base. Today the WordPress themes have become bulky, large and have large chunks of code. This is not good for the WordPress ecosystem.

With Gutenberg the WordPress theme will just work as theme. It will have a style sheet which will style the Gutenberg blocks. Some of the native blocks may be removed by devs. Custom blocks will be added by everyone through theme’s companion plugins.

Impact on WordPress plugins

The WordPress plugins which works with front end will use the Block API of Gutenberg to register custom blocks. Site owners can then use the blocks to create custom layouts.

Impact on WordPress community

There will be positive impact on WordPress community with Gutenberg. The Gutenberg themes will be much better than what we have right now. The new themes will be capable to offer better user experience to the users and the site owners. The optimization will take place through standard codes.

The WordPress plugins will be improved and this will become possible as Gutenberg will provide API with site building features and to explore content.

Standard for WordPress page building. Some people like while others hate it. This is because there is no standard way to build a site. People need to build websites and control it without using code. With Gutenberg things will be different as it will create a standard to develop WordPress site.

A number of WordPress tools have been making development a simple process. To know more about those tools click here.