The most experienced team of WordPress experts and educators.
Over 16+ years of WordPress and web development experience.
The team that advises some of the largest WordPress plugins in the industry used by over 25 million websites.
Led by WPBeginner founder, Syed Balkhi, a well-respected WordPress expert.
Experience
Our editorial staff includes a dedicated team of programmers, writers, video creators, and editors with over 16 years of experience in WordPress, web hosting, eCommerce, SEO, and online marketing.
Our editorial team manages every piece of content we publish at WPBeginner. Unlike other copycat tutorial websites, every person in our team is a true WordPress practitioner. You can learn more about our Editorial Process here.
The team is led by the most well-known and well-respected WordPress expert in the world, Syed Balkhi. He graduated from University of Florida and have been building WordPress websites since 2006.
Syed is also the founder of some of the most popular WordPress plugins in the market.
About WPBeginner
WPBeginner is the largest free WordPress resource for beginners to learn WordPress. We are part of the Awesome Motive family and reach over 100 million visitors every year. Our content is fact checked and reviewed by our Editorial team for accuracy and integrity. You can learn more about us and our editorial process.
Over the years, we’ve received a lot of questions asking about custom fields and how users can make the most of them on their WordPress website. Custom fields are a handy WordPress feature that allows you to add extra data and information to your posts… Read More »
Are you wondering what is a WordPress theme framework and if you should be using one? WordPress theme frameworks help developers make beautiful child themes more quickly. However, they come with their own advantages and disadvantages that you may want to consider. In this article,… Read More »
Do you need to add custom meta fields to custom taxonomies in WordPress? Custom taxonomies let you organize your content beyond categories and tags. Sometimes it’s useful to add additional fields to describe them. In this article, we’ll show you how to add additional meta… Read More »
Looking to start a new blog, switch hosting providers, or transfer from WordPress.com? Let us make it easy for you. Our friends over at Bluehost has agreed to offer all WPBeginner users a limited time deal: 50% discount and a free domain name. You can… Read More »
There are many tutorials out there that shows you how to password protect your website content. Many of those utilize complex membership plugins that require user registration. But what if you just want to password protect your site without user registration? Let’s say you have… Read More »
The best part about WordPress is the plugins. They give you the ability to extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine. There are over 21,000 plugins in the WordPress plugins repository. Over the past few months, I (Syed) have been meaning to write… Read More »
Want to keep your readers engaged and scrolling? Displaying an estimated reading time for your WordPress blog posts can make a big difference, in our opinion. Displaying an estimated reading time encourages users to read through to the end of a post since they know… Read More »
Recently one of our users reported a very odd issue with their install. When writing a post, they could not see anything they were writing. Because the text of the post editor was white. More importantly, all of the visual editor buttons were missing, and… Read More »
About a year ago, we wrote an opinion post here at WPBeginner with the title “Should Blogroll ‘Links’ be removed in favor of WordPress menus?“. We got a decent feedback in the comments and our social media channels (twitter and facebook). Recently while browsing through… Read More »
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