Category: WordPress Plugins
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How to create responsive tables in WordPress
How far back into the history of the Internet can you remember? I remember ICQ, fan message boards (my first teen celebrity crush was Billy Zane!), and the heady early days of building websites on Geocities. Those rudimentary (by today’s standards) websites embraced wallpapers of repeated images, rainbow gradients, and questionable graphic design. And they…
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How to set up SSL on your WordPress website
The biggest buzzword around WordPress, and websites in general, for the last several months has been SSL.
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How to make your WordPress website secure
Unfortunately, we live in an age where website hacking is prevalent. Hackers don’t discriminate – whether you have a large multinational company website, or a small personal blog, you are at risk of your website being compromised. This can, understandably, be scary. If you don’t know when and how a hacker is going to attack…
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How to use cool and interesting fonts on your website
When building a website, font choice is one of those things that can be a total time suck. Cycling through all the various permutations of typeface for each element of your website, it’s all too easy to get stuck on the question of bold vs italic, from Amatic to Zapfino. I’d like to demystify some…
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How to use the WordPress app to manage multiple websites
If you only have one WordPress site, it’s quite straightforward to manage it. Log in to the dashboard in your browser, or in the browser on your smartphone, and away you go. However, it’s quite likely that you are, or will be, managing multiple WordPress websites, making logging in and out significantly more cumbersome. The…
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How to set up free contact forms on your WordPress website
Every WordPress website I’ve worked on has required me to set up forms. Often it’s just a simple contact form, but things can definitely get a lot more complicated than that. You might have forms to sign up to be a volunteer, or to make a payment, or to download a file. You might want…
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How to enable infinite scrolling on a Genesis child theme portfolio page
From time to time, a client requests specific functionality on their website that I have never implemented before. In the case of the Spoonful Publishing website, owner Anthea wanted her portfolio to look amazing. For an artist or designer, this is completely unsurprising! But what was a little unusual is that she wanted the portfolio…
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How I created a multilingual WordPress website
One of the best things about working on WordPress projects is that I’m constantly learning new things. Each website has its own particular needs and challenges, so new techniques often need to be learned in order to develop the website to its full potential. I recently implemented a plugin for the first time, so I wanted…