Tip Of The Week

Gravatar is a great online persona manager, like a business card for the web. I’ll show you how it integrates with the entire WordPress ecosystem.

The standard url of wp-login.php to log into WordPress can be difficult to remember for new users, and tedious to type for experienced users. Fortunately, built into WordPress are two aliases for the login page and admin page to make it easier to remember and type! Pro tip: they’re /login and /admin

Local from WPEngine is a great WordPress local development platform, but an update to MacOS has made it a little harder to get SSL set up properly. I’ll show you how to easily get it working with just one setting change.

Every setting and option in WordPress is stored in the options table in the database, which you can look at with a database tool, but there’s also a SECRET file in the WordPress admin called optoins.php which will show you all of your options, and change them if you dare!

Have you ever found a code snippet in a forum that said “Just put this in your functions.php file!” ? Don’t do that. In this video I’ll show you a better way, one that’s easier and safer than dropping code into your WordPress functions.php file.

If you have a free account on WordPress.org, you can mark plugins as favorites. What you can do with those favorites inside your own WordPress admin is AMAZING.

When you first log into WordPress there’s a dashboard full of little boxes with information in them. They’re widgets, and they’re super easy to make! I show you how in less than 5 minutes!

This video is about using the Inspector built into your web browser to edit the HTML and CSS of a page to create a desktop wallpaper. No external editor required!

RSS is super powerful and can greatly increase the value of your site. I’ll show you both how to use it in WordPress and how to simply use it to follow your favorite sites.

RSS is a way to mark up content to make it easier for computers to read. WordPress creates RSS for nearly all content in your site, and I’ll show you how to find it and prepare to use it.