Tutorials

How to Backup WordPress to a Local Computer

Backing up your WordPress site is one of those essential things that don’t get spoken about nearly as often as they should. We’ve already reviewed the best WordPress online backup tool, BackupBuddy, and today we are going to talk about another tool which allows you to backup your site to

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How To Remove Media Upload Buttons in Post Editor

In the WordPress admin screen, when working in the post or page editor, you will see some media upload buttons above the TinyMCE editor. If you would like to hide them from your client, for example to disable the upload of such files, you can follow the steps in this

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Using Featured Images in Custom Post Types

Custom Post Types are one of my favourite features in WordPress nowadays, and I use the excellent Easy Content Types plugin for generating them. Sometimes I need to include uploadable images within the the custom post types, and although the plugin mentioned allows file uploads, I still feel that some

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Publish Posts to RSS At a Later Time

This hack delays posting to the RSS feeds for 10 minutes (you can customise it). This can be useful as it gives you some leeway to re-read the live post and make any minor changes before it goes to the RSS feeds. Using this hack you can also keep content

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How to Add Buttons and CSS Classes to TinyMCE

When creating websites for clients, especially those who are not so familiar with website editing or the internet in general, it is always useful to customize the WordPress Admin to make it simpler and more intuitive. Once customization is that of adding functionality to the TinyMCE visual editor. For example,

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WordPress Debugging Guide

Did you know that WordPress provides a number of debugging tools for you? These are especially useful for theme and plugin developers. We can also find some plugins which can be helpful in debugging our WordPress code. In this post we take a look at WordPress in-built features as well

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Getting Started With HTML 5 and WordPress

HTML 5 is now more like the present than the future, and WordPress theme developers should stand up and take notice. Why not try and implement HTML 5 in your next WordPress project. We bring you all the resources you will need to get started immediately with HTML and WordPress.

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WordPress Speed Optimization Guide

The load speed of your website is essential, you need a fast site because slow sites annoy users, meaning less visitors to your site. Secondly, search engines also consider the speed of your site when generating their rankings. There are a number of factors influencing the load speed of a

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How to make a WordPress Backup

How to Backup WordPress

A step-by-step guide on how to Backup your WordPress blog or site using the BackupBuddy plugin. You can backup your database or your full site and can schedule your backups for full automation.

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