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Where to Buy a Domain Name for Your WordPress Site

Where to Buy a Domain Name for Your WordPress Site

When building your first WordPress website, the primary step is to find a domain name and register it.

It doesn’t really matter where you buy the domain from with regards to WordPress, but not all registrars are equal. When choosing a registrar you need to consider their prices, interfaces, and

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How to Properly Comment Your Themes and Plugins

One of the marks of a truly great WordPress developer, is his ability to include excellent commenting in his code. Go ahead, take a look at some of the plugins/themes by the best developers, and see how easy it is to read through their code. They adhere to the WordPress

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How To Optimize WordPress Queries

Although WordPress is a system that performs well in general, it’s worth delving a bit deeper into performance considerations when building plugins and themes for general distribution. You never know who will be using your plugin or theme, it might be a site with thousands of posts. At that level,

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Best WordPress Video Tutorials

I recently came across the excellent online learning site Udemy.com, and I was pleased to find a number of WordPress-related courses. Here are some of the best I’ve found, hopefully they will also help you learn more about WordPress.

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Preparing Strings for Localization in Themes and Plugins

Many plugin and theme developers fail to properly prepare their plugins and themes for localization.

I suspect that rather than an unwillingness on their part to do this important task, it’s instead a case of getting confused about what’s needed.

So let me give you some examples to show how

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How to Leave Proper Reviews for WordPress.org Plugins

The Reviews feature introduced on WordPress.org a few months ago was definitely a welcome addition to the repository, however I see too many people abusing it lately, especially for those plugins which are very popular. I suspect that some people expect that because the plugin is so famous they only

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