How to install a WordPress Theme
Themes are an essential part of a WordPress website. They decide the look, feel and features of a website. For every genre of website, there are a huge number of…
5 Simple Tips to Optimize Your WordPress Site ( without any code )
If you have ever created a website on WordPress, you would certainly have experienced that websites tend to get slow over time with increasing amounts of content and database. This…
How to create a simple parallax effect using vanilla JS
In this tutorial, we are going to create a simple parallax effect using vanilla JS. There are plenty of JS and jQuery plugins out there which can achieve the same…
Shortcodes in WordPress and why they are a life-saver with the Block Editor
WordPress comes equipped with a pretty neat feature known as Shortcode. The most basic function of a Shortcode is to output certain HTML content without having to call functions or…
How to create a Featured Category Slider Widget in WordPress using Owl Carousel
Widgets are an integral part of the WordPress ecosystem and play an important role in the structure and layout of a website. By default, WordPress provides a number of widgets…
The $args parameter… latest addition to get_template_part() no one is talking about!
When developing s WordPress Theme, one of the most frequently used features is the get_template_part() function. It allows us to include templates in another template. It is really helpful in…
How to optimize your WordPress Media Library for enhanced performance
Images are an integral part of any web page. They provide dynamism and improves readability of the content of a website. In WordPress, images are uploaded using the Media Uploader…
Decoding the template attribute for Inner Blocks in WordPress
InnerBlocks is quite a nifty feature in WordPress. It allows you to set up a new block comprised of existing blocks in a pre-defined layout in the content of a post. They prove to be very useful when dealing with sites having monotonous content on a number of posts. It can be a real time saver. In order to set up a block containing InnerBlocks, refer to the official documentation. It will clear a lot of things for you. However, in this article, we will not be talking about setting up InnerBlocks. In this post, we'll focus on one particular attribute template. The layout of a block is set up with the help of this attribute and frankly, it's not very well explained in the official docs. So, I thought of shedding some light on it.
Difference between a Taxonomy and a Category – Explained with Examples
For anyone beginning with WordPress, There are sertain terms that can be very confusing. One of them is Taxonomy. While Category is a familiar word, Txonomy is quite unheard of for a newbie WordPress User - whether a website creator or a developer. In this article, I will explain what exactly is a Taxonomy and what are the differences between a Taxonomy and a Category.
How to show the date for a post in WordPress?
WordPress, primarily being a blogging platform, has blog posts at the centre of it. While designing a WordPress theme, more often than not, there is a need to add a custom layout for posts. And while creating the layout, usually the date of the post needs to be displayed. In this article, we are going to see how to add a date to a post in WordPress.