Category: WordPress

When you have WordPress Multisite active, all users are shared between all blogs because the wp_users table is the same for all blogs. By default, it's simply not possible to enable WordPress user registration on a subsite only. To go around this, first thing we need to do is enable registration in our network admin: […]

When building a company website, chances are you’ll be looking for a WordPress client portal plugin where an administrator can upload files and information related to a particular client. And most of the time it doesn’t have to be something complicated. There are several solutions like simply creating a password protected page or using an […]

WordPress 4.5 “Coleman” was released with a lot of improvements and new features. This release was led by Mike Schroder, backed up by Adam Silverstein as Release Deputy, Mel Choyce as Release Design Lead, and the help of 298 contributors with props in this release. While there is no big ticket item on the list, […]

Sometimes you want to begin user registrations in your WordPress site at a particular date and time in the future. Luckily it's simple enough and it requires just a small plugin. There's no UI and you'll have to modify the $open_registration_time variable with your time and hour, but it's as simple as it gets: create […]

With our bbPress forums retired, I wanted to close all topics without having to go in each one of them. While I couldn't find something that did exactly that, I did found this really nice plugin https://github.com/thebrandonallen/bbp-auto-close-topics that automatically close bbPress topics after an admin-specified time period.

This tutorial explains why adding WordPress SSL & HTTPS is the best way to secure your site and why all of us should do it eventually. Also, we'll go into an option for adding a free SSL certificate on your WordPress site. Let's break it down. What is SSL & HTTPS? An SSL (Secure Sockets […]

There's been a lot of discussion regarding WordPress AMP, particularly in the Advanced WordPress Facebook group. With Accelerated Mobile Pages, Google promises instant load times for readers since AMP pages are stripped down of most of the markup and have limited or no javascript scripts loaded. Some of the questions involved errors with existing WP […]

Free and easy to use WordPress membership plugins are not a myth. Finding and getting started with them is simpler then you might think. Often website owners require visitors to sign up and become members of their platform before allowing access to the content. The solutions for WordPress users are a variety of membership plugins […]

If you're like most website owners, you might not know that enabling WordPress social login can help you increase your website's user engagement. And it all has to do with users forgetting their account passwords. For those unfamiliar, there's a thing called "password fatigue" and your website's visitors or customers might be suffering from it. […]

WordPress 4.4 “Clifford” (named for jazz musician Clifford Brown) was released with over 2,000 contributions by 471 contributors. That's the largest number of contributors to a point release by far. Here's the short launch video for this version. As you can see, there are a lot of great things in this release like: REST API […]