WordPress is easily the most powerful open source blogging and content management system available online today, and so working knowledge of its intricacies is a boon to any developer or designer resume.
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All the wordpress-related tutorials, ideas and various posts in Stampede Constructs
The Advanced Guide to Optimizing WordPress Performance
Today, WordPress powers 25% of the Internet. It’s easy to use, incredibly popular, and not going anywhere anytime soon.
But WordPress can be slow. So how do you optimize it?
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Getting WordPress Dashicons to Work
Dashicons is the icon font used officially in WordPress admin. What’s great about it is that you can add some visual cues on your website without bloating it up. Visuals like images increase load times and don’t scale well, while SVGs require you to read up a bit to actually put it to use Today we’re going to show you how you can get these font icons installed on your WordPress project.
CMS for Developers: Finding the Right Platform for a Dev Blog
Hi, I’m Tony Sanjaya, a web developer at Stampede Design. As my experience in web development grew over time, I needed a place where I could share my thoughts and findings. Other times, I wanted to share with others on what I have built. This was the problem statement that came about and to solve it I realised I needed some kind of CMS or blogging platform to post my works. It needed to be customisable, free of complications and easy to maintain.
Why You Should Use WordPress Child Themes
Developing websites using WordPress can be a blast due to its strong developer community and tons of free resources to pick & choose. When it comes to design, there are a ton of themes that are readily available. Some of these themes are free while others purchasable for a small fee.
What We Know So Far About WordPress 4.6
WordPress 4.6 Beta 1 was released on June 2016 and has been getting consistent updates up till now. The current announced version is Beta 4 which is already available now. Its fully functioning date of release will be in August 2016, so be sure to check it out then. So without further ado, let’s find out what’s new.
Leveraging WordPress Functions to Reduce HTML Elements
WordPress functions can reduce the number of HTML elements, thus improving web efficiency. Changing HTML in templates is easy, as one template is responsible for a lot of pages. But changing content-based HTML is difficult. There are individual things that may need to be updated manually one post a time because it comes in hundreds to thousands. Even if required, the less HTML in the post, the better.
Protect Your WordPress Website from User Errors
While WordPress is a powerful and user-friendly CMS, it can also be plagued with errors from user meddling.The platform is used by developers, content writers and other types of users of various knowledge levels regarding the platform. The admin page can change almost anything in WordPress which is great for a developer but frightening of a normal user. This is because normal users are not be able to determine what certain settings can be changed.
Multiple WordPress Sites? We’ve Got You Covered
Are you running multiple WordPress (WP) websites? Maintaining a WordPress (WP) website is not very hard, and this is partly thanks to its user friendly interface and its ease of coding for developers. It will start to become a chore when you need to install and setup WP websites almost every week. Here’s a solution that we’ve found that solves this problem, it’s called WP-CLI.