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Where to Find WordPress Themes and Plugins (35+ Directory Alternatives)

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November 7, 2017

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Extendability and flexibility are two of the main reasons for the success of WordPress. Because you can find WordPress themes and plugins en masse in the official directory, the CMS lets you build pretty much any type of website you want. No doubt about it, the WordPress directory is a central part of the WordPress ecosystem. However, it is far from the only place where you can find WordPress components. By now there are many other places that offer themes and plugins. To give you a better understanding of who they are, in this blog post we have compiled a […]

How to Host Your Open-Source WordPress Theme on GitHub

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November 6, 2017

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Publishing an open-source WordPress theme sounds relatively simple if you follow the steps provided in the Theme Developer Handbook. However, what happens once a piece of code breaks the theme, while you’re in the middle of developing another feature? Without a way to easily track and manage code, your theme may soon become unorganized and unwieldy. Version control enables you to track changes to your WordPress theme so you can revert to a previous iteration when something breaks. You can also work on new features in one place while fixing bugs for old versions in another. In this article, you will […]

Top 10 Blank WordPress Themes And Their Impressive Advantages

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November 3, 2017

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WordPress has thousands of themes and plugins that support developers carry out website development. WordPress is a great tool for building sites, but not everyone has the time or resources to create their own website from scratch. It doesn’t mean that they back out from designing a website rather they continue to search easy and new ways to do that. To resolve this problem, WordPress has come up with a fresh concept of blank WordPress themes, which provide a great way to build a customized theme. Professionally, these themes are also known as starter, base, or naked themes. In the […]

Rethinking What I Know About Medium, As A WordPress Developer

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November 2, 2017

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One of the many ways we’ve talked about Gutenberg is comparing its usability to CMS’s like Medium. This comparison assumes that the primary reason that Medium is often a go-to for blogs is the quality of the interface. With this in mind, it’s logical to assume the reason people sometimes choose Medium over WordPress is the quality of their writing experience. I’m not arguing that Medium’s writing experience isn’t excellent. It is, and I enjoy reading the site lot. At the same time, people seem to be employing tweetstorms more and more. I know plenty, from personal experience,  about how […]

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