HTML Tips for Beginners
If you’re just getting into web development you’ll need to learn Hypertext Markup Language (HTML); the standard markup language for creating web pages. These are my top tips for beginners.
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Beginning WordPress Theme Development: A Reading List
A reading list for web developers looking to try their hand at WordPress theme development. This list aims to give you a better understanding of WordPress’s core functionality, such as it’s hierarchy and the loop, then leads on to creating a basic theme.
Displaying Custom Field Data in WordPress
Custom fields can be very powerful and add a lot of flexibility to your content. Learn how to create custom field data and display it in your WordPress theme.
Increase the Spacing between Columns in FrogLearn
Give your content a little breathing room by increasing the spacing between the columns in your themes.
Change the Image Quality in WordPress
By default, WordPress compresses images uploaded via the media uploader. Learn how to change the level of compression in your functions file to better suit your website.
Get content from another site on a WordPress Multisite
On a WordPress Multisite you might want to grab content from one of your websites (site 1) and display it on another (site 2). In this tutorial we’ll show you how to switch to another site and get the title, excerpt and main body content, then display it on one of your other sites.
Smooth Scrolling with jQuery
Create a smooth scrolling effect to an anchor tag on the same page. You can pass a parameter to this so it’s reusable, and the link has graceful degradation for anyone who’s disabled JavaScript.
10 Plugins to install on every WordPress site
There are some incredibly useful plugins out there, and while I’ve never been one to install a plugin for the sake of it, here are my 10 essential plugins that I install on almost every site I make.
Add Additional Image Sizes to your WordPress Theme
WordPress gives you three different image sizes to set in the media settings of the dashboard, but sometimes it’s handy to add a few more to your theme to use around your website.
How to Remove the Category from URLs in WordPress
By default WordPress will insert /category/ into the URL for all of your category links. With just a quick change in your dashboard settings you can easily remove this.