WordCamp season is in high gear, and chances are you will attend at least one before the summer is over. If you’ve never been to a WordCamp it can seem intimidating. Each one brings in more people, more speakers, and more after parties. That’s a lot to prepare for. However, WordCamps are a great place to grow your business or meet a new friend. We talked to two WordCamp experts who have attended more than their fair share of conferences to get advice on attending your very first one. If you feel like you’re comfortable attending but are playing around […]

Heading to WordCamp Europe in a couple weeks? New to Paris? Check out the WCEU Paris Guide App, created by the team at Worona. The app contains daily event schedules, restaurant recommendations, places of interest, and more. The app is free and available on both iOS and Android. Daily schedules Once you open the app, you’ll get a short description of the event as well as location information. This is your go-to page if you’re looking for the conference center. However, the main feature of the app is the daily conference schedules. If you can’t get on Wifi, you’ll have names […]

WordPress 4.8 – nicknamed “Evans” after jazz pianist and composer William John “Bill” Evans – is now available. The update features several new improvements, including widget updates, link boundaries, edits to the “WordPress News” section, and more. “Though some updates seem minor, they’ve been built by hundreds of contributors with you in mind,” Mullenweg said in the official announcement. Designed with the user in mind, the updates in 4.8 aim to improve the overall user experience and user interface of WordPress. Evans includes a widget update that enables users to easily add image, audio, and video to a widget on your website without knowing a lick […]

For any web developer, the word CSS is not something new. Despite the fact that CSS is an awesome programming/styling language, it comes with certain limitations which cannot be ignored. Thankfully, the CSS preprocessor languages like Syntactically Awesome Syle Sheets (Sass) and LESS have saved the day. In today’s post, I’m going to explain how you can use Sass with WordPress through NPM Scripts and provide you with an easy to use boilerplate. Let’s start with the basics. What is Sass? Sass is a CSS preprocessor language that helps developers write CSS in a better and more meaningful way. With Sass, […]

For as long as I’ve been a WordPress developer, I’ve had a lot of people ask “where should I add my WordPress hooks?” Yes, this is a sign I need more friends who are not WordPress developers, but that’s not the point of this article. Of course, there is no right answer. While ultimately, the answer depends on a variety of things, I want to share a few different patterns and discuss pros and cons of each. That said, I think that these discussions miss an important point: The WordPress Plugins API — aka hooks — is an API that […]

Tickets to WordCamp Europe 2017 in Paris are officially sold out, but that doesn’t mean you need to miss the conference. As part of an effort to make the WordCamp as accessible as possible, the organizers have set up a free stream. It works just like last year –  to register, simply go to the Ticket page and get your free ticket to the stream. There are nearly 3,000 spots available – but to ensure your slot reserve your live stream ticket today. Though you won’t be able to participate in any of the after hours activities, you won’t miss a minute […]

If you publish WordPress themes, it’s important to develop them with the security of your users in mind. However, the WordPress Theme Review Team recently showed that many theme authors eschew this at an alarming frequency. We understand: getting a theme and its elements to simply work is much easier than worrying about any security aspects. Even so, themes can be a huge security risk, so this is something you must concern yourself with. In fact, there are a number of security mistakes that crop up time and time again, and the good news is that fixing them in your own code […]

Managing multiple WordPress sites at once is no easy task. While the platform has an easy-to-use interface, a lot already goes into keeping just one site up and running. Updating WordPress, plugins, themes, creating content, moderating comments, doing regular maintenance — it’s not hard but it accumulates. Multiply that for each additional site and you have your hands full, especially with sites that have healthy traffic. And that doesn’t even take into account the time it takes to log in and out of each website. Luckily, you don’t have to go it alone. Other people have realized the need to […]