Site speed and page load times are now an important component of the Google ranking algorithm, which can affect search engine rankings of your site. If you have tested your webpage for speed by using Google PageSpeed and found out that you need to use browser caching, here is how you do it.
There are many ways of including files in a WordPress document, however using WordPress’s built-in get_template_part(); function will help keep your files organized and clean by using a common WordPress taxonomy and structure. It simplifies your theme files and speeds up the development process by not having to constantly rewrite code.
During the development process of WordPress Child Theme you will planning remove some default scripts and styles or change the way to tell browser load them, then add your own to optimize the theme. This, of course, you should try to make as little HTTP requests as possible to keep your site up to speed, put your javascript in the bottom of the page to ensure faster rendering, and it also gets real tough to maintain all those separate files if many things have to change The good news is that WordPress has a built-in system that allows us to deregister these scripts and styles instead edit the parent theme files.
Child themes let you start with the basics of an existing theme, so you’re not having to reinvent the wheel. You can pick a theme that has the functionality and basic layout you need, but then customize everything about it as you would designing a theme from scratch. In this guide I want to introduce the basic concepts of building a WordPress child theme and why it’s such a good idea.
Since moved to WordPress, I always made my own theme yearly. Like another WordPress Themes Developer, I created my own developing enviroment to custom WordPress design and development. If you want to become a freelance WordPress Themes Developer or just make your own WordPress theme like me, this topic will list the things you need before you start.
Lots of bloggers and website administrators fail to recognize the importance of securing their site. While no website can ever be made 100% secure, if you follow this simple guide and implement the tips mentioned in this post, you can easily see how adding a few extra layers of security easily adds a bit of extra time after the installation.
I encountered a problem with my child theme when I wanted to load some of my javascript files for the theme’s option which I kept with in the child theme so that the parent theme remains unchanged and all the development is also done in one directory.
Almost parts of Wordpress template codes is modifiable or removable by add or remove filter methods in functions.php file. Let’s think about it before hacking to WordPress core sources or create your own WordPress child themes.
You’ve started your first blog on WordPress.com because the service was free, you weren’t required to have any technical skills and there were plenty of widgets, themes and plug-ins to help you quickly customize the blog. However, a time comes when you might want to move to your own domain name which is a continuance of your WordPress.com blog. Moving your WordPress.com blog to a self-hosted WordPress.org is actually more simple than you might believe! Sure there’s a few steps but all good things require a bit of work, right? I hope you found this helpful. What are you waiting for now? Are you ready to make the switch?
Automattic just released a collection of plugins as one “super-plugin” called Jetpack. As they explained it, the goal was to bring eight of the most requested features available on WordPress.com to the millions of self-hosted WordPress sites in one easy-to-install curated package. If you use JetPack Stats on your site (formerly released as a stand alone plugin called WordPress.com stats), you may be familiar with the smiley face image that it adds to the bottom of every page on your site.
There are, of course, too many plugins to list here, so in this article we’re just going to point out the essentials… what I consider to be the bare minimum “can’t live without” list of plugins that should be installed with just about any new Wordpress installation. This is obviously just the beginning, as these are only a fraction of the seemingly limitless list of things you can do to customize and enhance your WordPress driven your new website.