As the picture says: Make a Mess … Clean it Up. WordPress makes a mess, and WordPress Cleanup is part of the WordPress maintenance game. This is a conversation about The …
WordPress Theme Lock-In
What controls the way your WordPress site looks and acts? There’s more to WordPress than Themes, Plug-ins and Widgets, but those things manage most of the heavy lifting. So, simple …
Escaping Envato, The Walmart of WordPress
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s article revealing Envato as the Walmart of WordPress, we’ve come across an article at WordPress mouthpiece WPTavern detailing one theme vendor’s attempt to leave …
Doing Client-Friendly WordPress
At The WordPress Helpers, we (usually) love us those folks at WPMUDEV. In particular, Daniel Pataki’s work is spot-on, seemingly every time out of the gate. While The Dreaded WordPress White Screen …
15 Questions for WordPress Developers
As with all hiring decisions, when seeking a WordPress Developer your success depends on the way you ask questions. Wouldn’t having, say, 15 Questions for WordPress Developers come in handy? Last month …
Envato Themes is The WalMart of WordPress Development
When we discussed the idea that Envato is a Monster, we focused on a particular business practice at Envato Themes that—if you were aware of it—might bother you whether you …
WP Designer: Own Your Themes, Functions, and CSS
See this pretty picture? Go check it out; WP Designer is a new plug-in that “allows you to add extra functionality to your site in a standard compliant way using customization …
Broken WordPress Security
Is there a Broken WordPress Security problem? Good news: the broad answer is no. WordPress’ security is pretty solid right out of the box, and for the most part you …
The Dreaded WordPress White Screen of Death
Other than complete deletion of your WordPress site, nothing is more scary then encountering the WordPress White Screen of Death. Unless you’re Stack Overflow; then true dread is spelled w-o-r-d-p-r-e-s-s, …
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 …
