How to Preview Posts in Distraction-free Writing Mode Without Seeing a Transition

In order to see the post meta boxes using Distraction-free Writing Mode in WordPress 4.1, you have to move the cursor away from the post editor. During the editing process, you may need to preview a post several times. Since the preview button is only available when the publish meta (more...)

Best of Best WordPress Tutorials of 2014 on WPBeginner

Yet another year is about to coming to an end. We want to thank you guys for supporting WPBeginner for 5+ years of our existence. As we look back at the year of 2014, it was full of success and joy for the WPBeginner team.… Read More »

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36 Tools and Tips for Social Media Marketers

Are you a busy social media marketer? Do you want to find more tools and tips to do your job even better? Marketers are always looking for useful social media tools to increase visibility and productivity. In this article you’ll discover the best tips and tools I shared on the Social Media Marketing podcast this year. #1: [...]

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A Look Back at WordPress News in 2014, Part 2 of 2

This is part two of a two part series looking back at WordPress news in 2014. There was plenty of action to write about with over 900 posts published in 2014. Browse through the list and if a particular story had an impact on you, let us know in the (more...)

Dear WordPress Plugin Developer, Please Add Screenshots

This year the WordPress plugin directory crossed 35,000 plugin listings and is rapidly approaching one billion total downloads. WordPress 4.0 added custom icons to the plugin installer in the admin, which helps developers to differentiate their plugins in this massive sea of extensions. Plugin branding is useful for standing out (more...)

How to Test Your WordPress Theme Against Latest Standards

Wondering if your WordPress theme meets the latest standard? Not sure if the developer you hired did a good enough job? In this article, we will show you how to test your WordPress theme against latest standards. The free WordPress theme directory has set high… Read More »

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Add an Expiration Date to WordPress Sticky Posts

WordPress’ sticky posts feature was introduced six years ago in the 2.7 release. It was added to enable users to stick important posts to the front page so that they won’t disappear in a blog’s steady stream of chronologically ordered content. By default, a sticky post is sticky indefinitely and (more...)

New Social Media Research Shows What People Expect From Brands

Are you wondering what consumers expect from brands when it comes to social media? A serious of new reports answers this very question. Consumers have strong expectations for how brands use social channels. In this article, you’ll discover findings from studies to help you determine what consumers want to see from you on social media. [...]

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WordPress Community Pulls Together to Help a Member in Need

Dan Griffiths, who is known on Twitter as Ghost1227 and one of the creators of WP Tally, recently found himself in an emergency situation. Due to personal reasons, details of the situation have been withheld but it required Griffiths to come up with $2,500 within a 24 hour time span. (more...)

Manage Code Snippets in WordPress with the Code Snippets Custom Post Type Plugin

Maintaining a library of code snippets can save you time when coding similar tasks in the future. Although there are countless sites online where you can host code snippets, it’s more convenient to have them at your fingertips when writing a blog that includes code. Plugin developer Justin Sternberg recently (more...)

Should You Install Plugins Not Tested With Your WordPress Version?

Often our users ask us about the warning that a plugin is not tested with their version of WordPress. Should you install plugins that plugin? or find another plugin? In this article, we will discuss why you should install plugins not tested with your version… Read More »

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Top 15 Free WordPress Themes Released in 2014

Looking back on the theme landscape of 2014, a clear design trend emerged that highlights WordPress’ roots as a blogging platform. Minimalist, content-centric themes took center stage in the official WordPress Themes Directory, outpacing their more visually-bloated commercial counterparts. This past year saw a major renaissance in themes for the (more...)

New Facebook Terms: What Marketers Need to Know

Did you know new changes are coming to Facebook as of January 1, 2015? Want to know what it all means to marketers? If you’re like most people, you won’t want to sit down and compare line-by-line to find out the exact changes. That’s why we’ve done it for you. In this article I’ll share [...]

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Facebook Year in Review: This Week in Social Media

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? Facebook Allows Users to Create Their Year in Review: “Public figures can use Facebook Mentions to create their [...]

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How to Add Tabbed Content in WordPress Posts and Pages

Do you want to divide your posts into tabs to save space and make it easier for users to find what they’re looking for? In this article, we will show you how to add tabbed content in WordPress posts and pages. First thing you need… Read More »

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Failure: Why Taking Risks and Failing Is the Path to Success

Have you experienced a failure in your business (or your life)? Would you like to discover how to turn failures into success and real growth? For this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast, I’ll explore why failure is important and the lessons I’ve learned from a major failure that happened to me this year. More About This [...]

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How to Filter Unanswered Comments by Admin in WordPress

Comments are an easy way to build user engagement on your site. To foster engagement, you must communicate with your users, answer their questions and respond to their feedback. As your site grows in popularity, you will find it hard to track unanswered users comments.… Read More »

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Typography Project Beautifully Illustrates Complimentary Google Web Fonts

The Google web fonts library has over 650 fonts and without a keen eye for design, it can be difficult to find complimentary fonts. After we highlighted how you can customize Twenty Fifteen with over 650 free fonts, some readers questioned whether customizing fonts should be left up to designers. (more...)

How to Bulk Schedule Posts in WordPress

Recently one of our users asked us how to bulk schedule posts to be published automatically in WordPress. Scheduling a post in WordPress is extremely easy, but what if you wanted to quickly schedule multiple drafts at once? In this article, we will show you… Read More »

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26 Ways Brands Succeed With Social Media Marketing

Do you want to improve your social media marketing? Are you curious about what works for large companies? The best way to add techniques to your repertoire is to look at what brands with high levels of engagement are doing. In this article I’ll share 26 tips, an A-Z guide, from brands doing an excellent job [...]

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Varying Vagrant Vagrants Adopts Open Source MIT License

Varying Vagrant Vagrants 1.2.0 was released last week after nine months in development. As of VVV 1.2.0, new instances of VVV will have the database entirely contained inside the virtual machine, as opposed to previous versions where it was mapped to a persistent local location. VVV project leader Jeremy Felt (more...)

How to Redact Text in WordPress

Did you ever want to redact some text in your WordPress blog posts? Redaction is the term used for editing text by blacking out sensitive parts of it. In this article, we will show you how to redact text in WordPress showing the user that… Read More »

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How to Use Google Analytics Custom Segments, Reports and Dashboards

Do you want more from Google Analytics than standard reports? Did you know you can get custom data? Google Analytics lets you create custom segments, dashboards and reports to find the information that’s most relevant to your business. In this article I’m going to show you to use these Google Analytics features. #1: Custom Segments Segments let [...]

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Customize Twenty Fifteen With More Than 650 Fonts With Typecase

The new WordPress default theme, Twenty Fifteen, looks great and provides a lot of flexibility, but one thing it lacks is the option to customize fonts. A free plugin called Typecase, by UpThemes, solves this problem by giving users easy access to over 650 different fonts. Typecase uses the Google (more...)

WordPress 4.1Includes More Than 20 New Dashicons

Dashicons is an icon font that first shipped with WordPress 3.8. Since then, the core development team has routinely added new icons as necessary. WordPress 4.1 includes more than 20 new icons, specifically for the built-in media player and inline image editing tools. There’s also a few miscellaneous icons including, (more...)