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5 Easy Strategies to Make WordPress Enterprise-ready in 2021
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By Tim Hurd,
WordPress for enterprise? Learn simple but powerful ways to ensure that WordPress is ready for the heavy lifting of enterprise projects.
How the Muffin Live Builder Will Help You Build Better Sites, Faster
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By SitePoint Sponsors,
One of the fastest page builders is part of Betheme's all-in-one WordPress toolkit. Learn how the Muffin Builder can transform your work.
10 Top WordPress Ecommerce Themes for 2021
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By Monique Danao,
With WordPress themes, you can build a great ecommerce site without being a designer or coder. Here are ten top WordPress ecommerce themes.
How to Develop WordPress Locally with DevKinsta
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By SitePoint Team,
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
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By Craig Buckler,
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
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By Shaumik Daityari,
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
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By SitePoint Sponsors,
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
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By SitePoint Sponsors,
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
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By SitePoint Sponsors,
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
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By SitePoint Sponsors,
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
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By SitePoint Sponsors,
Read 5 Core Elements for Building Award-Winning One-Page Websites and learn WordPress with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.
10 Popular Plugins to Extend or Enhance Your WordPress Site
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By SitePoint Sponsors,
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
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By SitePoint Sponsors,
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
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By SitePoint Sponsors,
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
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By SitePoint Sponsors,
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
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By Tonino Jankov,
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
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By Tonino Jankov,
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
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By Tom Ewer,
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
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By Tonino Jankov,
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
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By Tonino Jankov,
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
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By Tonino Jankov,
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
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By Sufyan bin Uzayr,
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
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By Ahmed Bouchefra,
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
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By Ahmed Bouchefra,
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
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By Sufyan bin Uzayr,
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
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By Sufyan bin Uzayr,
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
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By Sufyan bin Uzayr,
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
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By Sufyan bin Uzayr,
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
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By Anthony Burchell,
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
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By Simon Codrington,
Using Font Awesome with WordPress is exceptionally easy. They're an easy way to add fully responsive, customizable icons, without using images or sprites.