Facebook is a great way to reach your audience. You can share product releases and blog posts, and talk to them directly via comments. But what if you could let them know when and where you’ll be right on your homepage? With Facebook Events, you have all the influence and reach that the social network offers right on your WordPress site. Now, in addition to working with Facebook Events on today’s largest social network, you can also have them on your WordPress site. Readers can see what events you have planned and decide whether or not to attend them. Have […]

One of the benefits of working with WordPress is its maturity as a platform. However, the reason it has stayed so relevant is the project’s adaptability. Recently, there have been great strides towards a switching to a brand new editor called Gutenberg. As with any major software change, you’ll want to make sure your existing plugins and themes will be compatible with this new editor. Thankfully, the code for the Gutenberg editor is now available as a public plugin in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory. This means you can download and install it to get a feel for any major compatibility issues in […]

Bitcoin — the first decentralized currency — has been around for over eight years now. In the past, I was dismissive of it and other cryptocurrencies. The fact that cryptocurrency like Bitcoin has the potential to radically reform banking is not lost on me but is way outside of the scope of this article. Yes, that’s exciting to me. No, I don’t think crypto is a magical cure for what is wrong with global capitalism, but that’s really not the point here. When I started looking into things further, and I’m super excited about the technology behind Bitcoin, blockchain. What […]

Small details can make a big difference in how your website is perceived and adding a favicon to your WordPress website is one of those tiny details. In case that term causes you to draw a blank, favicon stands for favorite icon. It’s the tiny image that represents your website in a browser’s favorite menu, tabs, and wherever else it is represented visually. Having a favicon is good for brand recognition, giving your site a visual identity and building trust with your audience. For that reason, in this article, we will show you how to include one on your site. […]

Domain Authority (DA) is a strong ranking factor with search engines, but many site owners don’t take the time to set themselves apart as industry leaders and increase their own DA. As such, you may not be ranking as highly as you could be, which could impact traffic, income, and more. Creating a custom knowledge base with WordPress is a good way to increase your DA. This can improve your Search Engine Optimization (SEO), while also benefiting your customers by offering vital self-help. Overall, it’s a win-win situation, which can complement your existing content marketing strategy. In this article, you’ll […]

One thing that makes working with PHP simple is that it is serial — each line of code is executed in order. This is also a limitation when we need to build a program that interacts with multiple APIs or other services since HTTP requests take time and can block page rendering. I discussed this problem in my article on combining data from multiple REST API endpoints using PHP. My best advice for avoiding this problem is using caching or JavaScript instead. One great thing about JavaScript is that there are many simple ways to do asynchronous HTTP requests, such […]

Scalable vector graphics and WordPress is a slightly complicated story. We all know that using visuals on your website is important. Images are everywhere. Be it to make your content more engaging and shareable, as portfolio images, or maybe just your site logo. Thankfully, WordPress supports many image formats for that purpose, including JPG, PNG, and GIF. However, one it doesn’t support without some coercion is scalable vector graphics (SVG). Yet, they are an image format that is growing rapidly in popularity. In this article, we want to talk about scalable vector graphics in WordPress. We will tell you what […]

The first time I went to a WordCamp I knew absolutely no one there and that made me a bit nervous, to say the least. I didn’t really know what to expect. I’d been to a few really big tradeshows and some educational conferences, and expected some hybrid of that, which isn’t too far off, but what I didn’t expect was the community. I’ve been to a lot of WordCamps since that first one and while the basic format has stayed the same, one change I’ve loved is how Wapuu, the mascot for WordPress has become a part of pretty […]

Artificial intelligence is all the rage these days. All big tech companies are working on their own version and the topic regularly pops up on the news. Like when one of Google’s programs taught itself how to walk. Then there was the story about how one of Facebook’s AIs started creating its own language (though it was a bit overhyped). Or when 116 AI experts urged the UN to ban killer robots. However, my favorite instance must be when Marc Zuckerberg and Elon Musk squared off about artificial intelligence on Twitter. I've talked to Mark about this. His understanding of […]

One controversial design decision in the WordPress REST API was to have a separate route for each post type. Some people disagreed as combining multiple post types in one route would have been very useful. As a result, you can’t query for posts of the same post type in the same request. This makes sense in terms of following the REST standard, also, the WordPress REST API is super extensible, so you can change that behavior. I’ll show you how in this article. In this article, I’ll show you how to make the default posts route of the WordPress REST […]