The Ultimate Mega Guide to Using Video With WordPress
Featuring video on your site can be a powerful way to show – and not just tell – visitors what your site is all about. Videos. They’re everywhere. Whether it be on a website, app, social media, or...
View ArticleHow to Add More Navigation Menus to Your WordPress Theme
Sometimes you may find an awesome theme only to realize it would be great if it had an extra navigation menu with important or frequently used links to increase the usability of your WordPress site....
View ArticleHow to Reset WordPress Websites Quickly (Including Multisite)
Life has no CTRL+Z, but thankfully, your WordPress site does. Whether you want to test various themes and plugins quickly, or you just want to wipe the slate clean and start over, resetting your...
View ArticleWhy Subdomains For Multisite Is A Very Bad Idea
Aaargh… which is better: subdomains vs. subdirectories?! One site says we have to use subdomains for Multisite, and another says, No way, that’s wrong”. What’s a dev supposed to do? … Or a WordPress...
View ArticleThe No-Plugin Guide for a Multilingual WordPress Site Using Multisite
Don’t let the limits of language limit your website’s reach on the World Wide Web. People from all over the world visit your website. If you’re serving content in only one language, you’re pushing many...
View ArticleWordPress Multisite vs. A Management Tool: Which Do You Need?
For the most part, you’re going to meet clients with a business or other online-friendly venture that they want you to create a website for. And, so you develop and perhaps even later manage the...
View ArticleCampusPress: WordPress For Education Gets Bigger And Better
The WPMU DEV team is also behind CampusPress, which provides WordPress hosting and services for schools, school districts, and universities. For over a decade, we’ve managed some of the largest and...
View ArticleThe Dangers of Cross-Site Contamination and How to Prevent It
One of the worst things about flu season is the inevitability that you’re going to get sick. You might work in an office environment where coworkers come in with runny noses. Or maybe you take the bus...
View ArticleCustomizing the Error Page for Deactivated or Archived WordPress Sites
If you run a WordPress Multisite network, the chances are that you’ve had to archive, suspend or delete one or two sites along the way. If the network is for your own use, you may have created a site...
View ArticleHow to Add a List of Sites in a Multisite Network to Each Subsite
If you’re using a WordPress Multisite network to host a number of related sites, it can be useful to include links to all of the sites in each of your sites. This will help visitors who arrive at the...
View ArticleHow to Use WordPress Multisite to Host Client Sites Reliably
A WordPress Multisite network is like an ant colony. It’s made up of individual sites, just like an ant colony is made of individual ants. And yet, they’re all self-organized and work as part of a...
View ArticleHow to Set Up a WordPress Multisite Multi-Network
WordPress Multisite is an awesome tool in its own right that enables you to create a network of WordPress websites, but did you know it’s possible to create a network of Multisite networks, i.e. a...
View ArticleThe Ultimate WordPress Multisite Domain Mapping Guide
WordPress Multisite makes it a breeze to manage several sites as part of a single network. But what if you want all the subsites to use a custom domain of their own? This is the problem WordPress...
View ArticleEmbracing The Spirit Of Open Source With WordPress Trac
As the vast majority of you are no doubt aware, WordPress is an open source development platform. In practical terms, this means one thing – you can have a hand in maintaining the world’s most popular...
View ArticleCustomize Your WordPress Login, Registration, and Profile Pages With These...
The default WordPress registration and login pages are fine if all you are building is a basic site with a handful of users. However, if you often work on client projects, creating custom pages is a...
View ArticleWordPress Stack Exchange Offers More Features Than WordPress.org Forums
The WordPress Stack Exchange is now out of beta. This is a resource that covers the exact same material as WordPress.org’s existing forums. Not familiar with Stack Exchange? It’s a programming Q&A...
View ArticleDisqus Review: Should You Use It with WordPress?
Engaging your visitors is vital to growing your audience, and enabling comments is one way to help you achieve this. There are many comment plugins out there which integrate with many social media...
View Article3 Top WordPress Multisite Backup Solutions Tested and Reviewed
Is your Multisite install ready if – and when – disaster hits? Many aren’t, but there’s one thing you can do right now to minimize your network’s recovery time in the event of a natural – or unnatural...
View Article22 Must-Have Plugins for WordPress Multisite Networks
Managing a WordPress Multisite network can be a lot of work, but it doesn’t have to be if you have the right tools. But what are the best tools for Multisite? There’s always a lot of discussion on the...
View ArticleHow to Change Your WordPress Admin Username
One of the simplest ways to help protect your site from would-be hackers is to choose a custom name for your WordPress admin or super admin account. Hackers will have a difficult time injecting their...
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