By default WordPress comes with a few post types already defined. But the two most obvious ones being pages and posts. The biggest difference between these two post types is down to how they are displayed by WordPress. WordPress Pages. Pages are generally used for content that’s fairly static; contact forms, about us, are the…
Happy Birthday WordPress
It’s hard to believe that WordPress is ten years old today. WordPress originally started life as a simple blogging platform – but has grown to become the worlds most popular open source content management system. In fact over 60 million sites are now powered by WordPress – with around 18% of all newly published sites…
Responsive wordpress website design
We’re choosing to use WordPress for more and more clients websites these days. The good thing is that we can rely on wordpress to handle all the dull routine which leaves us more time to concentrate on the presentation and usability of our websites. This keeps development costs as low as possible which enables us…
How to Create a Client Area in WordPress
Adding a secure area for clients to log in to your wordpress website and access specific pages and/or categories. [alert color=”yellow”] This post contains information over 2 years old and the plugins may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. Please follow this link for our latest recommendations. [/alert] Increasingly companies…
Redirect non-admin users from wp-admin
This simple function will redirect any logged in users (apart from admins) back to the homepage if they try to access the wp-admin folder directly. Add the following code your theme’s functions.php file.
WordPress missing admin menu bar
If you’re missing the admin bar whilst developing your wordpress theme it’s usually a pretty easy problem to fix. You need to check two files in your custom theme folder. header.php footer.php First open up the header.php file and check that the wp_head() function has been called. This can be anywhere above the closing head…