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Version control is one of the most important things you can add to your workflow, not matter what type of WordPress development work you do. It solves so many problems while making your life so much easier. Version control isn’t just the ultimate undo button, perfect for anyone who ever...
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Custom Post Formats is a feature that was first introduced back in WordPress version 3.1. Basically, post formats act as a different way of grouping posts, allowing you to define the kind of post content you are publishing. Once posts are grouped by format, you can choose to arrange posts together,...
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This post is part of our Customer Spotlight series. If you have an interesting story to tell and would like to share your experience with WordPress and Elegant Themes on our blog, please contact us! My name is Kayla Rose and I am a web designer for soulful and savvy business owners and I’ve...
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How site visitors experience your website—more concisely known as the user experience or UX—is something you absolutely must consider. Without a good UX, no one will get to appreciate your innovative ideas, cool graphics, or top-notch products. And it’s not because they don’t try....
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When you build a website or blog, populating it with content is just one step of the process. For some, it’s as simple as writing up a few basic content pages, writing blog posts on a regular schedule, and that’s it. For others—especially those working in complex industries, their...
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Gravatar – It sounds kind of cool when it rolls off the tongue, right? The first time I ever read about Gravatar, I thought that it was some movie spin off. Even though I was wrong, the idea behind what a Gravatar is and how you can use it is still pretty cool. Whether you’re a new...
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As the most popular content management system (CMS) in the world WordPress is likely to be the first platform that many look to when considering a website. Whether the site is for them as an individual, business, non-profit or something else entirely, the WordPress community has most likely figured...
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When building a WordPress site, especially one that contains a lot of content, you might get overwhelmed with the presentation aspect. How can you display all of this content without bogging down site visitors? How can you maintain a cohesive and appealing aesthetic while including all the...
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Just about every professional site you come across nowadays has a page dedicated to frequently asked questions or FAQs. Why? The answer is surprisingly simple: The more information you provide to your customers upfront, the more likely it is they’ll convert. So, if you lay out everything...
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Even if you think you’ve never used WP_Query before, you have, every time you loaded a page in WordPress. In the simplest terms, how WordPress works is when you load a page it creates a WP_Query object that can access the post or posts that the current URL calls for, ie the first ten posts,...
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I think the primary, underlying appeal to WordPress as a platform is its ability to empower its users. Everything else about it serves to prop up this one, all important function. It’s free, easy to use, has an enormous amount of free plugins and themes and of course an equally significant...
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At the end of July, the Editorial team at Elegant Themes decided to start producing a monthly article series that gathered together all the best WordPress related news and articles under one roof. August proved to be an exciting month in the WordPress community, and we wanted to make sure you guys...
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