Disabling WordPress Core and Remote Block Patterns

With WordPress’ templates, patterns, and template parts, you can conveniently and quickly create web pages. You can create these yourself, and some themes come packed with these building blocks to give you a head-start. Unfortunately, WordPress also loads a ton of random patterns, from core as well as remote. I bumped …

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Creating a custom taxonomy in WordPress

custom taxonomy in WordPress

Over at ThemingWP, we wanted to introduce a new taxonomy – brands. A taxonomy dedicated to theme vendors like StudioPress and WooThemes. Brands would become the third taxonomy, next to the default categories and tags. The names of the vendors were already in the database – as tags. This means we …

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An intelligent Recent Posts widget with posts from other blogs

RSS concept on wilwebs.org

In last week’s post we explored the options for displaying recent posts from HostingCaddie, ThemingWP, and this blog on wilwebs.org. With the proper plugin, displaying post excerpts – or even the full post content – is a piece of cake. What I prefer though, is a simple list resembling WordPress’ default …

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Four plugins for embedding RSS feeds

3D RSS icon

WPfy.me has two sister blogs, ThemingWP and HostingCaddie. These three blogs reside under the umbrella of wilwebs.org. A widget that I include on all three blogs is the Recent Posts widget. Over at the site of wilwebs.org, I am not publishing anything yet. The site merely acts as a hub for …

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Putting your foot down – keep the footer at the bottom of the page

Keep the footer at the bottom of the page

While setting up a new website, have you ever experienced that the page footer is floating somewhere halfway the page? Usually this resolves itself as soon as you start publishing content. But when you also publish smaller posts, or use post formats and publish for example links and quotes, you might …

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Mobile plugins for WordPress compared

Mobile plugins for WordPress compared

As you probably know, Google has changed its search algorithm again. This time to benefit mobile searchers. Since April 21, mobile users of Google search are presented results not only relevant to their query, but also leading to sites offering a positive user experience on mobile devices. Almost half of the …

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