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The Beginner’s Guide to Writing Your Own Custom Shortcode

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June 26, 2017

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Shortcodes are a popular feature included in many plugins and themes. However, if you’ve never built your own shortcodes before, you may have no idea how to add them to your own WordPress projects. Thankfully, WordPress’ Shortcode API makes it fairly simple to create your own shortcodes. Doing this will enable users to take advantage of your plugin or theme’s features from any text-based area on their WordPress site. Including shortcodes in your projects is an easy way to build on the functionality you’ve already created, so you get the most bang for your buck. In this article, we’ll talk a bit more about how shortcodes […]

Make Your Plugin or Theme Translatable with I18n

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June 23, 2017

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WordPress allows you to translate your sites, themes, plugins, and everything into any language whatsoever. It’s part of what makes it such a global and accessible CMS. To be able to translate WordPress sites, you as a developer need to write high-quality code to make your themes and plugins translatable. Today, I am going to talk about how to write WordPress code to help make it translatable via i18n and l10n. Not only this, but I have also prepared a boilerplate which you can use to auto generate .pot files for translation both via WP-POT CLI + NPM Scripts or Gulp. […]

Matt Mullenweg on the Gutenberg Editor, Feature-Focused Releases, and More [Interview]

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June 22, 2017

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At WordCamp Europe 2017 in Paris, I had the opportunity to sit down with WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg for an interview on feature-focused releases, The Gutenberg Editor, niche WordCamps, and more. During the 2016 State of the Word, Mullenweg announced the move away from scheduled releases, toward a feature-focused process, specifically focusing on three major areas: The Editor, The WordPress REST API, and The Customizer. By eliminating the pressure of a specific release date, WordPress can make more revolutionary changes to the software. The Editor, nicknamed Gutenberg, is a product of the new feature-focused process. The Gutenberg-focused release aims to […]

WordPress Theme Safety – How to Ensure the Theme You Are Using is Secure

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June 21, 2017

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Two of the biggest reasons for WordPress’ success is how easy it is to customize and that there are so many free ways to do so. The WordPress directory is full of literally thousands of free themes and plugins and can change the design and functionality of your site in seconds. In addition to that, we have masses of premium plugins and other commercial offerings from high-quality WordPress companies. As a consequence, anyone looking to enhance their site is just a Google query away from doing so. Enter “free WordPress themes” and you are sure to find something for your […]

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