get_theme_file_uri and get_theme_file_path

 

WordPress 4.7 “Vaughan” comes with a handful of helper functions and filters making theme developers to code child theme file inheritance easily.

The following are enhanced forms of get_stylesheet_directory_uri, get_stylesheet_directory and it’s parent parts get_template_directory , get_template_directory_uri.

We will explore why these functions are introduced, what they do and where to use them?

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Best WordPress SEO plugins Yoast vs All in one SEO

The WordPress platform is the single most effective way of sharing content across the internet. With blogging and article writing being the most popular way to communicate with your consumer, you can count on WordPress to help you generate organic traffic to your site even with little to no experience. In this article we will outline some most used SEO plugins that will help enhance your site’s search.

If you’re searching for a way to drive traffic to your site, it is important to understand SEO and how to optimize your WordPress blog. There are hundreds of SEO plug ins to download right from within the dashboard that will help augment your website for maximum performance across all search engines.

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How to customize website using custom CSS

 

Most of the times even though we have chosen right theme for site that suits our needs , we still need more or need a little bit of styling to be changed or little functionality to be changed.

In this article I explain step by step procedure on how to change your site’s appearance (not functionality) using custom css.

There are two ways to add custom css:

  • Creating a Child Theme
  • Using Plugins
  • Theme Options (Some themes support option for custom css)

Why Plugins or Child Themes , can’t i just add css in my theme’s style.css ?

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WooCommerce – excelling eCommerce – what is it ?

WooCommerce is a plugin that can be used to create eCommerce websites on WordPress websites. You could either use it to create an online store from the scratch, or use it to add a store front to your existing WordPress website. WooCommerce is very popular amongst WordPress users, with millions of downloads and this is not unconnected to the fact that WooCommerce has an advanced store management interface that can be used for digital products, as well as physical products.

Targeted Audience: Beginners

This guide would show you how you can set up your own WooCommerce website for free.

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WordPress SEO By Yoast Vulnerability Puts Websites At High Risk

A perilous vulnerability has been found in the very popular plugin of the WordPress content management platform (CMS) putting about tens of Millions of websites at very high risks of hacking by the attackers.

The vulnerability is in almost all versions of a WordPress plugin which is called WordPress SEO by Yoast As per Yoast Website, this plugin has more than fourteen million downloads which makes it one of the most famous plugins of WordPress to optimize websites for various search engines (Search engine optimization or SEO).

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Exploring Jetpack : How it helps to boost functionality

 

If you already have a WordPress website, or you are only just thinking of creating one, you must have come across the name ‘Jetpack’ at least once and you were probably wondering “Okay, what the heck is this about?” Don’t worry, i had the same feeling too when i created my first WordPress website. In fact, i didn’t install the Jetpack Plugin until several weeks and countless nagging by WordPress to install the Plugin. That was years ago when Jetpack wasn’t so popular. But now, every Website owner that uses WordPress CMS knows that one of the first few things to do when creating a WordPress website, is to install a Jetpack Plugin.

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