WordPress HowTo

Maintenance mode or site offline type plugin is very useful when you are running maintenance work in the backend of your site. Maintenance mode plugin can also be very useful when you are launching a new site and would like your users to know that it's under construction and will be coming soon. In this article I put together a list of of the top Maintenance Mode/Coming Soon/Site Offline/Site Under Construction Type Plugins For WordPress. … [Read more...]

WooCommerce 3.0 named "Bionic Butterfly" has just been released. This version contains some major features such as updated product gallery, speed and performance improvements, addition of CRUD classes, CLI via REST API etc. … [Read more...]

Are you having trouble sending email from your WordPress site? Are you using a free SMTP provider like Gmail, Outlook or Yahoo to send your email instead? Emails are still not getting delivered for some mysterious reasons? SparkPost might be the solution to this email issue. In this article I'm going to show you how you can integrate it into WordPress to send email via SMTP. … [Read more...]

Are you using the WordPress video shortcode to embed self-hosted videos into your website? Are you trying to position a video in the middle instead of it being aligned to the left by default? Today I will show you a simple tweak to center your videos with some custom CSS. … [Read more...]

Resource Hints is a W3C specification that defines the dns-prefetch, preconnect, prefetch, and prerender relationships of the HTML Link Element (<link>). These can be used to assist the browser in the decision process of which origins it should connect to, and which resources it should fetch and preprocess to improve page performance. … [Read more...]

"rel" is a HTML link attribute that defines the relationship between the current document (the page you are linking from) and the linked document (the page you are linking to). While rel has various usages in a link, one of the important values that it can define is "nofollow". When rel="nofollow" is present in a link, It tells search engines like Google to not follow that link (unendorsed document/resource). This works great when you have an article with various outgoing links and you don't … [Read more...]

Caching can be a very powerful tool to make your WordPress site load faster and handle lots of traffic. However, most caching plugins come with tons of features that can easily confuse a user who is not actually a developer. In this article, I will show you the easiest way to enable caching in WordPress so you can run your site efficiently without configuring any complicated settings. … [Read more...]

If you have a multi-author site where each author works on a separate topic, you can limit their access to a particular category or media. This helps you run your site efficiently with a good editorial workflow. In this article, I will show you how to restrict authors to a specific post category or media in WordPress. … [Read more...]

Do you want to set up a PayPal subscription in WordPress? Creating a membership/recurring subscription system can be challenging when you are running an online store. Maybe you have just developed a plugin/theme or set up a WordPress service and you want to accept payments on a recurring basis. Or maybe you just need to accept recurring donations for a worthy cause. Having a plugin that manages recurring PayPal subscription for you can be a big relief. … [Read more...]