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The WordPress backend can be dangerous ground to tread upon as a beginner. Anything that offers such power must also apportion responsibility to the user, which is where some people can go wrong when getting started. Without wanting to frighten you too much, there are certain things you can do in WordPress that will just plain break it. On a less worrying (but also important) note, there are other things you can do that I would certainly advise against — whether it represents a potential security risk or simply something that has a negative impact on the user experience. With the above in mind, in this post I want to cover five things that you must avoid doing in WordPress. With the following recommendations implemented your website will be far safer, reliable, functional and enjoyable for visitors. 1. Don’t Use the Code Editors There are a couple of landmines contained within the WordPress backend; you can access them via Appearance > Editor and Plugins > Editor in the … [Read more...] about 5 Things You Must Avoid Doing in WordPress

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Last week saw the halfway point for 2015, yay! This seems like a good time to update you on WordCamp happenings in the first half of this year. There have been 39 WordCamps in 2015 so far, with events organized in 17 different countries and on 5 continents. More than 14,000 people have registered for WordCamp tickets so far this year, isn’t that amazing? WordCamp Europe was held in Seville, Spain just a few weeks ago, with close to 1,000 registered participants and over 500 live stream participants. You can watch Matt Mullenweg’s keynote Q&A session from WordCamp Europe right now on WordPress.tv. WordPress.tv has published 537 videos so far in 2015 from WordCamps around the world. Some of the more popular 2015 WordCamp talks on WordPress.tv include Tammie Lister: Theme, Don’t Be My Everything from WordCamp Maui, Jenny Munn: SEO for 2015 – What’s In, What’s Out and How to Be In It to Win It (For Good) from WordCamp Atlanta, Fabrice Ducarme: Les Constructeurs de Page … [Read more...] about WordCamps Update

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On the 10th anniversary of WPBeginner, I shared that WPBeginner hosting infrastructure got a huge upgrade thanks to our web hosting partner, HostGator . Shortly after, I started getting emails from readers asking me to share the details on how we made WPBeginner load blazing fast. Yes, WPBeginner load faster than most static site generators and in some cases faster than Google AMP sites too. In this article, I will give you behind the scenes look at how we made WordPress faster than static site generators and headless CMS platforms. Note: This article is a bit more technical than what we typically publish on WPBeginner. For non-techy users, I recommend following our ultimate guide on how to speed up WordPress . Update: We’re no longer using the setup shared in this article. Instead we have switched entirely to Google Cloud platform managed by SiteGround . We have the same speed results and have unlocked even faster back-end performance. Read why we switched to … [Read more...] about How We Made WordPress Faster than Static Site Generators (Case Study – Speeding up WPBeginner)

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The first thing you’ll notice about 2.7 is its new interface. From the top down, we’ve listened to your feedback and thought deeply about the design and the result is a WordPress that’s just plain faster. Nearly every task you do on your blog will take fewer clicks and be faster in 2.7 than it did in a previous version. ( Download it now , or read on for more.) Next you’ll begin to notice the new features subtly sprinkled through the new interface: the new dashboard that you can arrange with drag and drop to put the things most important to you on top, QuickPress, comment threading, paging, and the ability to reply to comments from your dashboard, the ability to install any plugin directly from WordPress.org with a single click, and sticky posts. Digging in further you might notice that every screen is customizable. Let’s say you never care about author on your post listings — just click “Screen Options” and uncheck it and it’s instantly gone from the page. The same for any … [Read more...] about WordPress 2.7 “Coltrane”

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Another year is about to end and what a great year it was. We can’t thank you enough for your continued support of WPBeginner. We look back at 2016 and feel grateful for the success and joy our team achieved. WPBeginner 2016 Recap from Syed Balkhi Wow what a year has this been for WPBeginner. Not only did we grow in all aspects from traffic to team size to revenue (coming from our premium plugins ), but we also got a new site design after 4 long years. Our YouTube channel doubled in size. We now have over 500 free video tutorials that have been watched by over 6 million people, and we have almost 47,000 subscribers. I would really appreciate it if you can subscribe to our YouTube channel . My goal is to reach the 100,000 subscriber mark in 2017. Amanda and I welcomed our first baby, Solomon (born in October). To celebrate, we donated the wp.org domain to the WordPress foundation. Several of you asked for a picture, so here it is: This was also a great year for … [Read more...] about Best of Best WordPress Tutorials of 2016 on WPBeginner

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