Hooks (actions and filters) are a developer’s best friend in WordPress. WordPress core offers us a very wide range of opportunities to execute our own functions at key times, and also to modify key pieces of data being utilized to render our web pages. In a similar manner, we can create our own actions and […]

In WordPress, custom post types are what let us break our content free from the world of Pages and Posts (and do lots of other cool stuff). In a nutshell, post types empower us to organize/structure our site data and front end views in a way that can be as unique as we like. I […]

Posts and Pages are two ways you can easily get content onto your WordPress site. Depending on the way you want to organize your site, you’ll probably want to think about which format is best for your needs before adding all of your content. Posts: Items within a feed Posts are items which will automatically […]

When you first install WordPress (version 4.1.1), this is how your site looks: To log in to the WordPress admin area, you will go to this address, substituting in your own domain name where you see example.com: http://example.com/wp-admin At that point you land on this screen: Type in the username and password that you gave […]