Upgrade Your WordPress Development Skills with Action and Filter Hooks

An essential part of WordPress development is making modifications or adding functionality to what’s already in place from WordPress Core, a theme, or a plugin. If you’re familiar with the WordPress template hierarchy, a theme’s functions.php file, or even just the search function of your code editor, it’s tempting to find what you want to…

Building a Simple WordPress Plugin to Customize Your Website

Plugins are an essential part of any WordPress site. They add new functionality beyond the core WordPress features and allow you to customize your site to be exactly what you need. The WordPress plugin library is vast and contains plugins for most general needs, but it is sometimes necessary to build your own plugin. Plugins…

Developing a Data Retention Strategy to Help Grow Your Business

Data Organization is Essential The acquisition of workable data is a foundation of our modern, insight-driven society. Insights from applied data are a constant underpinning behind everything from advertising campaigns to the algorithms that drive Google’s search results. If you aren’t using data to make informed decisions, now is the time to start. Finding the…

Everything You Need to Know About WordPress 5.9

WordPress 5.9 Josephine was released on January 25, 2022. It contains the largest Gutenberg update since the initial launch in WordPress 5.0. A large chunk of this is dedicated to the evolution of Full Site Editing that was introduced in the previous release—including a new Site Editor and Global Styles Interface. The release also ships…