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Adding Scripts and Styles to WordPress the Right Way With Enqueueing

Many of us use styles to alter the look of our website, and scripts to enhance functionality. It is important to note however, that the way you add these scripts to WordPress is just as important as the content of these files. Instead of plopping them into the header or footer file we need to use WordPress’ enqueue functionality.

In this article I’ll show you how to add scripts and styles to your…

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Loading WordPress Posts Dynamically With AJAX

AJAX has become all the rage in the past couple of years and for good reason. AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a way to have a “conversation” with the server and display the results without reloading the page.

This technique allows us to refresh “Like” counters, add items to a shopping cart, create dynamic forms and much more – all without reloading the page.

In this post I’ll show you…

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Your Totally Complete Guide to Customizing the WordPress Post Editor

To give you a place to create posts and pages, WordPress uses TinyMCE, a platform independent web based Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor control.

It offers a good, basic set of features that include bold, italic, quote, alignment, text color, paragraph style, etc. For the most part it does its job and it does it well. Your posts will look okay. They will use the CSS built into your theme, so you’ll…

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5 Simple Methods for Creating Custom Queries in WordPress

On every page of your website, WordPress runs a query. This fetches data from your site’s database and then displays it in the way your theme tells it to using the loop. This is referred to as the main query.

Depending on the type of page being displayed, WordPress will use the most appropriate template file, meaning that the loop might vary for different content types. But it will always run a…

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40 Evocative and Beautiful One Page WordPress Themes

One page WordPress themes have made a real impression in the past few years. As their name suggests, these sites offer all of a site’s content on a single page. Navigation at the top of the site tends to trigger a scrolling effect that takes the visitor down to the clicked section.

There are many reasons why someone might opt for a one-page site. To-the-point resume sites work well within the…

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How to Use a WordPress Shortcode Outside the Post Editor

Shortcodes in WordPress are amazing. They are essentially macros that allow you to place content anywhere on your site.

For example, instead of inserting a whole bunch of images to create a gallery, you simply use the shortcode [ gallery ]. WordPress offers a few shortcodes by default and there are hundreds to choose from via available plugins.

There are a couple of places you may want to use…

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Creating Translatable WordPress Themes and Plugins: Developers Guide

Last year we featured a series on translating different aspects of WordPress, which focused on internationalizing an existing theme or plugin.

In today’s post, we’re going to extend and complement that series with some information for theme and plugins developers, namely how to localize your theme or plugin or it’s ready to translate.

We’ll take a look at what you need to do when creating new…

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Make Your WordPress Site Accessible With These Themes and Plugins

I think we can all agree that technology has made our lives a lot easier, but what about people who are visually or hearing impaired and those who are color blind?

We spend a lot of time improving our websites, optimizing them for speed and creating quality content, but not enough attention is placed on site accessibility. Have you ever wondered how easy it is for people with disabilities to…

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Start the Year off Right with These WordPress Housekeeping Tips

The start of a new year is traditionally seen as a time to form a new habit, get started on a new project, or implement an idea.

So in today’s post we’re going to focus on good habits to keep when working with WordPress, and great tools you can start using to improve your website in 2015.

1. Better Image Data

Add titles, captions, alt text and descriptions to your images to improve SEO.

Thi…

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A Quick (and in-Depth) Guide to WordPress Hooks

WordPress hooks are the thing to learn if you want to get into WordPress development. Hooks allows you to do two things: change default functionality within WordPress and add your own functionality without modifying core WordPress files at all.

Making sure you never modify core files is extremely important, but modifying and adding stuff seems impossible without it.

In this post, I’m going to…

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Understanding WordPress Hooks: Knowing What to Use Where

Recently, we explored getting started with WordPress hooks and look at what WordPress hooks are and how to use them. One problem with hooks is that it isn’t immediately obvious which hook to use in what situation, and what parameters you have at your disposal.

In today’s post I’ll show you a few tricks that I use to figure these things out. We’ll browse through some WordPress core code, looking…

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Add a Dynamic “Back to Top” Button to Your WordPress Site

User experience is often an overlooked aspect of website design, which is unfortunate, really, because it plays an important and essential role in ensuring visitors can easily use and navigate your site.

It’s in your best interests to make your visitors’ experience seamless and as effortless as possible. After all, you want them to spend time on your site, read your content and even buy your…

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50+ Quick Setup Portfolio WordPress Themes

Being faced with the task of building a portfolio website can feel overwhelming. After all, where do you even start?

Finding a good theme is a good place, of course, but what features do you need? What’s just fluff and unnecessary? Navigating the world of portfolio themes can make you feel as though you’re swimming in uncharted waters.

But it doesn’t have to be that way.

In fact, if you’re…

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25 Essential (and Free!) Plugins for Every WordPress Freelancer and Business

The internet is an amazing tool that provides anyone the means to grow their business and career in a meaningful way.

The first hurdle, though, is creating a website that allows you to go about your work without hindering your productivity.

To help you get started – or even find plugins you hadn’t thought of – this list contains solutions that will help you manage and organize your work, from…

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Why You Shouldn’t Use functions.php (And What You Should Do Instead)

I believe people who use WordPress can be separated into three broad camps:

Plug and players: WordPress enthusiasts who are probably not experienced website designers and are looking for a turnkey solution. They will find a theme, install it, and probably get on with content creation.

Tweakers: These folks will take a theme that could probably be used straight out of the box and apply their own…

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