At our sister site Answer Guy Central, things have just been converted to Ultra, a brand-new WordPress theme from the folks at Themify. Themify sells themes based on a home-grown page …
Should WordPress REST ? The WordPress REST API
See this oh-so-not-simple image depicting the way information flies around the Internet? Want to see it get a whole lot simpler? Maybe we can finally give WordPress REST? Yeah, we’re …
Dear WordPress … Where’s my stuff?
At The WordPress Helpers one of the things we do to help improve WordPress is point out flaws in business processes, and even some WordPress Business Decisions. One big WordPress Business …
Images Revisited, The WordPress Ecosystem, and WordPress 4.2 Issues
When WordPress 4.2 dropped a couple of weeks back, we noticed and commented on a rather large WordPress 4.2 Issue; you’ve lost easy access to “Title” tags. This reduces SEO efficacy, eliminates …
Making WordPress Easy with Theme Customizer
Our goal at The WordPress Helpers is making WordPress easy … or at least making WordPress easier. WordPress, great as it is, can be incredibly frustrating under the right wrong circumstances. …
Action vs Inaction, Making it Rain, and WordPress
Everyone speaks in one form of shorthand or another. We all have special lingo we use to refer to things that we understand, and use that lingo when we’re with …
Better WordPress Security
We’re constantly, almost-endlessly fascinated by the idea of better WordPress security. It’s a more-fun-than-it-has-any-right-to-be topic, because somewhere in between “just don’t have a user named ‘Admin’” and “lock that thing …
The Links/Title WordPress 4.2 Problem Won’t Be Fixed
Lest you think this image wishing a Happy Birthday to The WordPress Helpers Editor and Publisher Jeff Yablon gratuitous, take a look at the way it’s displayed. Google still believes in pop-up …
Cloudflare CDN and WordPress
There are a few WordPress Community luminaries whose work and words show up here, regularly. Lorelle Van Fossen and Bob Dunn are highly-respected WordPress Trainers. Tom McFarlin is a developer …
WordPress 4.2 Problem: Broken Title Tags, Broken SEO, and More
Houston, We Have a Serious WordPress 4.2 Problem WordPress 4.2, released yesterday, has a serious problem. It doesn’t show up in the WordPress 4.2 change log, which we’ve saved as a downloadable …
The WordPress Helpers WordPress Roundup 15-May-2015
The WordPress Theme Customizer Several years ago, WordPress introduced a feature called The Customizer. The Customer is a panel that theme develoopers can implement to make controlling how a theme looks …
The WordPress Helpers WordPress Roundup 17-Apr-2015
WordPress Theme Lock-In Themes are for presentation, plugins are functionality. But with that guideline stated, we need to throw in some hard pragmatism. Musings on WordPress Theme Lock-In. Escaping …
The WordPress Helpers WordPress Roundup 10-Apr-2015
A Gem of a WordPress Theme The absolute, no-question-about-it, most difficult thing about WordPress is finding a gem of a WordPress Theme. We could point you at our favorites, free …
The WordPress Helpers WordPress Roundup 3-Apr-2015
The WordPress No-Parking Zone If you’re sufficiently pessimistic about new opportunities, it probably pays to stop driving around. Opportunity is often where you decide it is. Albert Einstein Was …
The WordPress Helpers WordPress Roundup 27-Mar-2015
For The Love of WordPress Meet John James Jacoby. JJJ Loves WordPress so much he’s doing nothing with his time but re-writing its code. And he doesn’t even work for …
The WordPress Helpers WordPress Roundup 20-Mar-2015
What Does WordPress REALLY Cost? You’ve heard WordPress is free. Or you’ve heard it’s really inexpensive. You’ve heard it’s anything but. So what’s the truth? How do you get a …
The WordPress Helpers WordPress Roundup 13-Mar-2015
Why Doesn’t WordPress Work Like My Other Software? Have you noticed that WordPress works differently than the other software you use? Are you one of those people who have issues with …
The WordPress Helpers WordPress Roundup 6-Mar-2015
A Move from WordPress.org to WordPress.com It’s atypical, but it happens: someone with a self-hosted WordPress site decides to “bring it back home”. What happens? Unfortunately, if you want to …
The WordPress Helpers WordPress Roundup 27-Feb-2015
Free WordPress Hosting? Free WordPress Hosting! Where do you get WordPress Hosting? Want FREE WordPress Hosting, no strings attached, for real? No kidding, this is the place, and … it’s …
The WordPress Helpers WordPress Roundup 20-Feb-2015
Free WordPress Stuff! Giving away Free Stuff is the most-used content marketing strategy. Bu in WordPress, giving away the very thing you also sell is a strategy being used by …
Theme Builders, Page Builders, WordPress Theme Concepts
We’ve been planning a piece on the best way to build a WordPress site, literally since before The WordPress Helpers launched. We questioned the idea of WYSIWYG (and more to the …
FREE WordPress Hosting? Free WordPress Hosting!
Old saying: there’s no such thing as a free lunch. New saying: x10Hosting gives you free lunch, and much more. Like Free WordPress Hosting. Or any other hosting you can cram …
Automatic WordPress Site Creation
Last week, we ran a story about how the WordPress Database works. Specifically, we were talking about something that doesn’t work; the WordPress Database doesn’t ever get created automatically. At least, not …
Free WordPress Themes
At The WordPress Helpers, we talk a lot about themes. Spend more than a few minutes playing with WordPress in any form and you understand why that might be; your theme …
Better WordPress Image Handling
Before we started The WordPress Helpers, we used and helped others use WordPress for … quite a while. And while all is not perfect in WordPress, we have no major …
WordPress Web Design
Despite its title, the post we’ve linked below will not help you “choose the best platform for your personal website”. It will, however, help us prove what you already know: It’s …
WordPress: The Missing Manual
One of the things we hear from friends and clients alike is that it would be great if they could find “a book on how to do WordPress”. Here’s one, …
Plug-ins for a WordPress Speed-up
In this article, we asked whether you could get your WordPress site to load in under a second. Now, we’ll repeat that while the one-second barrier is a bit unrealistic for …
