Every site starts with an idea. WordPress Starter is a new, beautifully pared-back plan designed to put that idea center stage. For just $5/month. Like the WordPress Pro plan (more on that below), WordPress Starter brings you the fastest WordPress managed hosting on the planet. Unlimited site traffic. And a revolutionary price. Make Your Mark…
A Fresh New Design For Subscriber Emails We recently rolled out some fresh, flavorful updates to the design of the emails that go out to your subscribers when you publish new posts to your site. With this new design update we worked on modernizing the out-the-box email templates that come with your WordPress.com website. Clean,…
Nowadays, having an online presence, be it to make one’s business or one’s views go viral, is a decision that more and more people have made or have been making as I write. Once made, however, what’s the next step? How would you go about making the move to the World Wide Web? A choice…
If you’re a first-time blogger or your small business is about to move its first online steps, then it makes sense to think about using a free WordPress theme to build your website. Everybody is happy to grab free stuff, however a nagging thought might still lurk in the recesses of our mind: where’s the…
One of the most common tasks for anyone who sets out to personalize a template or a theme is adding images that reflect the site’s content, business, brand, or even set the tone and emotional context for the web page. How you add photos can make or break a website. What could be easier, one…
WordPress themes nowadays are awesome when it comes to offering the user options to make modifications straight from the admin panel, without even having to see a line of HTML, CSS, or PHP code. You’d love a full-width layout instead of the usual sidebar? You like the sidebar, but you want to move it from…
In this post I’m going to show you a great web developer tool called Firebug. Who is not a web developer or a web designer by profession, might not have heard of this free, all-important Mozilla Firefox browser extension. For those who are not afraid of casting a glance on some bit of HTML or…
If you’ve just downloaded a HTML template or a WordPress theme, it’s most likely that changing the color on some of its elements or changing the entire color scheme is on your to-do list. It looks like a simple enough task, but it can bring disastrous consequences for the success of a website when done…
I regularly participate in WordPress.org forums to help out fellow WordPress users with all sorts of issues that crop up as they develop their WordPress websites. It’s a great place to hang out and it’s my way of giving back to the awesome WordPress community. It’s doing so that gave me the idea of setting…
In a previous post, How to Display a Banner Only on Posts from a Category in WordPress, I showed a simple technique for achieving just this. In short, the steps I took involved making a copy of single.php from the parent theme over to the child theme, and adding a snippet of code. The code…
