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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
WordPress CMS: The Ecosystem
While it might seem obvious that when you ask The WordPress Helpers which content management systems should be considered instead of the WordPress CMS our answer would be none, it probably isn’t …
