Category: WordPress Tutorials

  • How to Style Blockquotes in WordPress Using CSS

    You probably remember the concept of blockquotes from school. If you’re like me, you might even have flashback nightmares about properly MLA-formatting long form blockquotes. Omit the quotation marks, indent this, double space that… Thankfully, WordPress blockquotes are a little less stressful. They’re actually a great way to break up a wall of text in…

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  • How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication for WordPress

    The login page of a WordPress website is the entry point to personal information, valuable content, and many other things that matter to your business. That’s why it’s extremely important to keep this page safe from brute force break-ins — attacks that rapidly test out various combinations of usernames and passwords until one is successful.…

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  • How to Completely Reset Your WordPress Website Without a Plugin

    It’s not always ideal, but occasionally you’ll need to completely reset WordPress to its original state. Before blindly jumping to use a plugin, it’s important that you understand exactly what it means to reset WordPress. Understanding the ins and outs of a WordPress installation (and what needs to be reset!) will help ensure that you’re…

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  • How to use React with the WordPress REST API

    I remember back when I learned how to develop for WordPress, I spent weeks in the Codex, learning the template hierarchy, the template tags, and so on. The Codex was like my Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy: they might as well have printed “DON’T PANIC” on the front, because it kept me learning at a…

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  • How to Fix Common WordPress Formatting Issues

    Not everyone wants to draft posts directly on WordPress’s built-in WYSIWYG editor, or Gutenberg, if you’re a bit ahead of the times. A lot of content is created off the WordPress content management platform, using popular tools that include Google Docs and Microsoft Word. Today we’re going to show you how to avoid and fix…

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  • How to Build Your Own WordPress Wiki

    Whether it’s product information, employee guidelines, or how-to’s, businesses tend to create information in droves. Before long however, the need to store that information in a spot where your customers, partners, and employees can get to it becomes an imperative. That’s where a WordPress wiki comes in. In this post we’ll highlight the value a…

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  • How to Set Up a WordPress Multisite Network

    Multisite is a powerful WordPress feature that allows you to create a network of websites running off of a single WordPress core installation. It’s been around since WordPress 3.0 and quite a lot of big sites use it — WordPress.com, the New York Times, Harvard, and Edublogs to name a few. Read on to learn…

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  • Running a Successful WordPress Webinar

    On September 16th, 2014, a new world record was set when 12,091 people attended the largest ever webinar held by Glavbukh in Russia. What makes this figure so astounding is the fact that only ten years earlier, almost nobody had even heard the word “webinar”. In recent years, many businesses have come to realize the…

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  • How to Create a WordPress Staging Site (and Why You Need One)

    We’re currently updating this piece to be more accurate. In the mean time, check out this piece for current best practices from our Docs team. Have you ever updated a plugin on your WordPress site and had the screen go white? You didn’t change any code, but the site goes pear-shaped right in front of…

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  • A Quick Guide to Hiding the WordPress Login Page

    Want to frustrate hackers with a good ‘ole fashioned game of hide and seek? If so, hiding your WordPress login page is a great way to secure your site from both targeted hacks and automated brute-force attacks. In this post, I’ll dig into two different ways to hide your login page: The easy way –…

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