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Social media is a huge part of life on the internet. Every brand and business needs to have a presence on Facebook on Twitter. Get those profiles seen by integrating them directly with your site. WordPress and social media For WordPress, the best way to include social media elements is to use plugins. These plugins can not only extend the functionality in enhancing the traffic but also help in exchanging the traffic between the website and social media, leave positive impacts of users/visitors, brand building and promote profiles in social media. Increasing popularity of social media Social sharing has become […]

Having a local development environment set up on your computer is an efficient workflow for developing a site, but what do you do when you have multiple projects to work on simultaneously? This is the function of Virtual Hosts — which allows you to run multiple sites all on the same server — whether that be a local or production server. This post will walk through the steps to setting up Virtual Hosts on MAMP, although the steps are roughly the same for any server running Apache. Enable virtual hosts The first step is to find the MAMP application in […]

I’ve covered adding custom fields to REST API responses before. While my original post from a few years ago is still largely valid, there are new improvements. I’d like to share what’s changed. When I wrote that post, the only way to add a custom field to a response was using register_rest_field and adding your own read, write and schema handlers. That method still works. But, you can also use register_meta(), which handles the callbacks for you. If your custom fields are stored using the WordPress object’s standard meta API, for example, user meta for users, then this new method […]