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. …
WordPress Cleanup
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 …
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 …
WordPress 4.2 Plugin Problem — RESOLVED !
If last week was “Fixing Support Week” at The WordPress Helpers, this week shaped up as the week The WordPress Helpers and The WordPress Community got together to preempt a huge WordPress 4.2 …
Loving WordPress Community — John James Jacoby
An Ode to The WordPress Community … or at least an Ode to the Ode that prominent WordPresser John James Jacoby (JJJ) has authored. JJJ be lovin’ him some WordPress. …
How Do You Learn WordPress?
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 …
Sourcing WordPress Confusion
The other day, I got what felt like a ringing endorsement of the ideas we had when we decided to start The WordPress Helpers. I’d come across a story twice that day, …
Free WordPress Stuff as a Content Marketing Strategy
Let’s talk “content marketing“. Or even better, let’s forget the buzzword and talk “Free WordPress Stuff”. Last week, I came across the story you see linked below, over at WPTavern. It …
WordPress Sharks That Stop Swimming Die
One of the many sites that, depending on who you ask, either is or is not controlled by the WordPress mothership is WP Tavern. This week an article appeared there …
WordPress, Jetpack Market Share, and Big Brother
The WordPress Helpers is here—besides to be helpful, of course—for two reasons. We love WordPress, and WordPress is HUGE. Big market, big target. Big deal. WordPress is so big, in …