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How to Develop WordPress Locally with DevKinsta

Looking for an easy way to develop WordPress locally? Learn how build, edit and test your WP site locally with the free DevKinsta tool.

How to Use WordPress as a Headless CMS for Eleventy

You want to offer static-site benefits to clients, but they want WordPress! Learn how to use Eleventy with WordPress to offer the best of both worlds.

Creating a WooCommerce Store on the Cloud in 10 Minutes

An eCommerce store enables businesses to reach a larger market. In this tutorial, we explain how you can create an eCommerce store with WooCommerce.

8 Top WordPress Multipurpose Themes and Their Cool Features

This article provides a list of the top eight multipurpose WordPress themes you can choose from, digging into their coolest features.

5 Features to Make Your Web Developer Portfolio Stand Out

It's not always easy to find and get new clients as a web developer. See some web developer portfolios that are true standouts in the space.

How to Build a Stunning Portfolio Website as a Web Developer

Here are 8 ideas, with 32 examples, to inspire you to promote your services on your own stunning portfolio website.

The Top 12 Multipurpose WordPress Themes to Choose in 2019

Searching for an alternative to plowing through a whole host of multipurpose themes? Check out this list of our 12 favorite multipurpose themes for 2019.

5 Core Elements for Building Award-Winning One-Page Websites

10 Popular Plugins to Extend or Enhance Your WordPress Site

WordPress plugins offer easy ways to extend WordPress functionality. There are hundreds on the market. But which ones should you use?

Now You Can Build Design-Oriented Pop-ups Straight from Elementor

You either hate pop-ups, or you love them. And if you say you love them, you're probably lying.

How to Choose a WordPress Theme in 2019: A Selection of the Best

Want to know how to choose a WordPress theme? We've selected what we consider to be the best 15 for 2019 for your review.

Visual Composer: The Brain-Twisting Story of the Name Change

If you have been a Visual Composer user for some time, you have witnessed some changes happening that might have been a little bit confusing.

How to Build a WordPress Theme from Scratch: Final Steps

In this article, Tonino completes his foray into building a WordPress theme from scratch, focusing on refining templates, adding meta information, post thumbnails, sidebars, user-friendly controls and more.

How to Build a WordPress Theme from Scratch: the Basics

This second part on creating a WordPress theme from scratch shows how to create a very basic WordPress theme, add in Bootstrap styles and scripts, separate header and footer output into their respective partials, and leverage the crucial functions.php file.

Developing a WordPress REST API App: Getting Started

This introductory article is part one in a tutorial series taking non-technical users through the building of a WordPress REST API app using React.

How to Build a WordPress Theme from Scratch: First Steps

Tonino introduces WordPress themes, showing how they work, how they’re structured, the PHP architecture behind them, and other relevant information, as the first step in learning how to build a WordPress theme from scratch.

An Introductory Guide to Managing WordPress with WP-CLI

Tonino Jankov introduces WP-CLI, a command-line interface for managing a WordPress site (as opposed to working through the default admin interface), covering its main commands and also introducing some of its third-party packages.

Using the WordPress Settings API to Build a Custom Admin Page

Tonino Jankov introduces the WordPress Settings API, and showing how to create a WordPress administration page to demonstrate the use of this API. In this article, he shows how to wrap this functionality into a plugin, though it can also be a part of a WordPress theme.

Three Ways to Create Your Own WordPress Theme

Sufyan bin Uzayr provides a bird's-eye view of three basic ways to approach building your own WordPress theme, covering child themes, adapting existing themes, and building a theme from scratch, as well as how to use basic starter themes and theme frameworks to speed up your workflow.

Building a WordPress Plugin with Vue

Ahmed Bouchefra shows how to create a WordPress plugin that makes use of the Vue.js library, creating a shortcode that can be used to display a Vue component in posts and pages that fetches and displays the latest posts every five seconds.

Creating Custom Endpoints for the WordPress REST API

Ahmed Bouchefra shows how to create your own custom route(s) for WP-API, allowing you to create mobile and web clients for your WordPress website that can also interact with your custom post types, rather than just the built-in WordPress types such as posts and categories.

A Beginner’s Guide to Selling Digital Goods with WordPress

Sufyan bin Uzayr introuces Easy Digital Downloads, a WordPress plugin that makes it easy to accept payment for digital products and provide immediate download links to customers.

Using WordPress as a Headless CMS

Sufyan bin Uzayr explains what a headless CMS is and why you might want to use one, and then goes on to explain how wordPress itself can be used as a headless CMS, showing ways to get started with WordPress as a headless CMS, including installation tips and tricks.

Creating a WordPress Ecommerce Store with WooCommerce

Sufyan bin Uzayr explains how to sell physical goods on a WordPress site with the help of the WooCommerce plugin, covering installation, settings, and how and where to choose the perfect theme.

Building a Non-blog Site with WordPress

Sufyan bin Uzayr digs into how you can use WordPress to run a regular, non-blog website, covering the steps required to disable blog-specific functionality, how to choose the right kind of theme, plugins for non-blog sites, and issues related to content management issues on non-blog WordPress sites.

Preparing Your Content for the Extended Reality (XR) Future

Anthony Burchell shows how WordPress users can prepare their site content for the extended reality future. The ways we consume content are ever-changing, but with a platform like WordPress, we’re able to adapt and create many new and engaging digital experiences.

Using Font Awesome with WordPress

Using Font Awesome with WordPress is exceptionally easy. They're an easy way to add fully responsive, customizable icons, without using images or sprites.

Improving Native WordPress Search

Janna Hilferty looks into why WordPress search often doesn’t perform well, explaining why the default WordPress search doesn’t scale and some ways to make it better, covering Algolia, Elasticsearch, Relevanssi, SearchWP and Amazon CloudSearch.

How to Translate WordPress Websites Using the Weglot Plugin

Translating your site into multiple languages might seem like an impossible goal, but thanks to the Weglot Translate plugin, you can quickly create a site that reaps all the benefits of catering to non-native speakers, but without the time-consumption and hassle.

Develop WordPress Themes Faster with Gulp

WordPress theme developers need little more than a text editor and graphics package. But modern tools like Gulp can revolutionize your development workflow.