New WordPress plugin and theme vulnerabilities were disclosed during the second half of February. This post covers the recent WordPress plugin, theme, and core vulnerabilities and what to do if you run one of the vulnerable plugins or themes on your website. The WordPress Vulnerability Roundup is divided…
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Customer Service Strategy: 10 Best Practices for Happy Customers
Your customers keep you in business, so you need to have happy (read: loyal) customers if you expect them to come back. It’ s far less expensive to maintain relationships with past customers than to develop new relationships. Your energy is best spent on your customer service strategy. Here…
WordPress PHP/Development: The Ultimate Guide
Despite what it may seem like WordPress doesn’t run on fairy dust, no — instead your WordPress website is powered by a server-side programming language called PHP and MySQL databases. In this guide I’ll be showing you what PHP in WordPress looks like, explaining how you can add…
WordPress Post Types: The Complete Guide
If you’ re the type of WordPress developer that cares a lot about design and organization, it’ s time to fully understand WordPress post types. As you well know, not all WordPress sites are simple blogs. Often, developers require more than the simple, standard pages and posts. They need to…
WordPress Debugging: The Essential Guide
Regardless of what level of WordPress developer you are, there is one problem you’ ll constantly face: bugs. Even the most seasoned developers cannot consistently code in a manner that doesn’ t produce bugs. As a matter of fact, debugging WordPress actually can help you learn even more about the…
WordPress Vulnerability Roundup: February 2021, Part 1
New WordPress plugin and theme vulnerabilities were disclosed during the first half of February. This post covers the recent WordPress plugin, theme, and core vulnerabilities and what to do if you run one of the vulnerable plugins or themes on your website. The WordPress Vulnerability Roundup is divided…
Becoming a web designer in 2021?
No matter what journey you are on, learning a new skill can be challenging without knowing where to go. You need a guiding light to help you navigate every opinion, idea, step, etc., that you find on the Internet. If your interests lead you to web design as…
So You Want to Become a Web Designer in 2021
The pandemic has been challenging for all of us. People have been furloughed, ended careers, or shuttered their own businesses. This has caused many to start looking at new careers to start. Whether you fit into one of those situations or you are looking to change directions, the…
WP-CLI: A Beginner’s Guide
Anyone new to WordPress can get easily overwhelmed by just the complexity of its interface. After all, as the CMS that 39.9% of all websites use, it needs to be pretty feature-rich. It typically takes weeks and a lot of caffeine to learn the ins and outs of…
WordPress Vulnerability Roundup: January 2021, Part 2
New WordPress plugin and theme vulnerabilities were disclosed during the second half of January. This post covers the recent WordPress plugin, theme, and core vulnerabilities and what to do if you run one of the vulnerable plugins or themes on your website. This weeks WordPress Vulnerability Roundup is…
New Linux Server Vulnerability
Security researchers at Qualys discovered a Privilege Escalation vulnerability in the Linux program sudo. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability to increase the privileges and take over the server. How does this server vulnerability affect WordPress websites? The majority of the web runs on Linux, so the vulnerability…
WordPress Hooks: The Essential Guide
WordPress hooks are a helpful tool designed for developers who make WordPress plugins and themes. In fact, they’ re so useful that the creators of WordPress utilize them throughout WordPress core. But what exactly are WordPress hooks and how do you use them? In this guide, we’ ll take a…
Ultimate Guide to Launching a WordPress Website in 2021
When it comes to launching a WordPress website in 2021, you’ re not alone. If you’ re one of the millions of small business owners that have been forced to take your operations from the brick-and-mortar world to the virtual world because of the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, this…
WordPress Security: The Ultimate Guide
WordPress security can be intimidating, but it doesn’t have to be. In this comprehensive guide to WordPress security, we’ve simplified the basics of securing your WordPress website so that any non-technical person can understand and protect their website from hacker attacks. This guide to WordPress security is broken…
WordPress Taxonomies: The Ultimate Guide
WordPress taxonomies are something that many WordPress developers never use. Some have never even heard of a WordPress taxonomy. When WordPress 3.0 introduced hierarchical taxonomies nearly a decade ago, taxonomies became an even more useful tool in the toolkit of WordPress developers. On a high level, we can…
WordPress Vulnerabilities Explained
Unfortunately, WordPress vulnerabilities exist. WordPress vulnerabilities can exist in your plugins, your themes, and even WordPress core. And since WordPress now powers nearly 40% of all websites, the task of understanding vulnerabilities is even more important. Simply put: you have to vigilant about your website’ s security. If you…
The Events Calendar Plugin is Joining the Liquid Web Family
I’ m so excited about today’ s announcement that Liquid Web, the parent company of iThemes, has acquired The Events Calendar plugin and the team behind it from Modern Tribe. I wanted to share my thoughts with you and let you know why I’ m so happy to have the team…
21 Ways to Get More Customers in 2021
To say that 2020 was a challenging year might be the understatement of the century. When thinking back to one year ago today, no doubt your life probably looked a lot different than it does right now. Not only were your ideas and goals probably a lot different…
PHP 8: The Complete Guide
On November 26, 2020, we entered into the new world of PHP 8. Every PHP update brings an entire host of brand new, major features. While not all of the updates are important to the majority of casual users, even other updates are too niche for the majority…
Best WordPress Twitter Plugins for 2021
The best WordPress Twitter plugins make it easy for you to share your tweets on your WordPress site. Whatever your experience of Twitter has been, there’s no doubt that being able to display your tweets or tweet content easily from your WordPress website is a neat way to…
