How do YOU learn WordPress? A better question is probably “how do you learn?”. People have different ways of absorbing—and learning to use—information, and your “type” is most likely consistent …
WordPress Custom Posts Hierarchy
At The WordPress Helpers we love WordPress, but there are things about WordPress that aren’t perfect. One is that WordPress wasn’t always the robust content management system it’s evolved into, …
Getting WordPress Help
Today’s “Getting WordPress Help” Score: WPBeginner Two, Rest-of-the-World Zero. Earlier today we pointed you at a post from WPBeginner about the upcoming WordPress 4.2. While we wait and hope that …
WordPress HTML
On many articles at The WordPress Helpers, we include a voice rendering. Making that happen requires the recording of the audio, of course, but then we need to get it placed …
There’s More Than One Right Way to Do WordPress
When all is said and done, the biggest piece of building success in WordPress isn’t about content management, or hosting, or any particular geeky WordPress elements. Great WordPress is about …
Geeky WordPress Elements
Tom McFarlin keeps showing up at The WordPress Helpers. Until now, everything Tom’s said that we sourced were no-question-about-it correct. Today, we’re looking at Mr. McFarlin’s article on PHP versions, a geeky …
WordPress Database Fields — The Advanced Kind
The WordPress Helpers covers WordPress from as many angles as we can think of. It’s a lot of acreage to navigate. Some of the fields—the database fields—are painfully uninteresting … and also …
Why Does WordPress Not Work Like My Other Software?
Over at Answer Guy Central, I once wrote an article about people who can’t find their “any” key. It’s a funny idea, and probably more so to computer geeks. But …
The WordPress Permalinks Structure
Somewhere, sometime, even if doing this Internet thing isn’t your thing, you’ve likely come across the word “permalink”. Permalink is a mash-up of permanent and link. Yes, the idea is that you create …
PRIMER: The WordPress Database Tables
Working on WordPress? Ready to take our advice that the WordPress Database is something you really need to understand a little bit about? Let’s move onto what’s in the WordPress Database …