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Ever spent hours perfecting your WordPress widget setup, only to realize you need to replicate it on another site? Or worse, lost all your carefully crafted widget settings during a theme change? We know firsthand how frustrating it can be to recreate widget configurations from… Read More »

Many of our readers ask us how to track user activity on their WordPress websites. But here’s another scenario: what if the user needs their own IP address? Maybe you sell a product that requires the customer to enter their IP address, or you write… Read More »

We strongly recommend that you never send newsletter emails directly from your WordPress site. While some WordPress plugins let you send emails using WordPress’s built-in PHP mail feature, this approach has significant problems. Your emails are likely to be undelivered or be sent to spam,… Read More »

Displaying related pages in WordPress improves user engagement and keeps visitors on your website longer. It can be hard to keep users interested, but showing them related posts is an excellent way to guide them to additional content they may find valuable. On WPBeginner, we… Read More »

WordPress 3.9 Beta 1 was released yesterday. This is a major release, developed under the plugins-as-features development model. In this article, we will show you what new features are coming in WordPress 3.9 along with their screenshots. WordPress 3.9 is still in beta, so some… Read More »

When developing WordPress themes, sometimes you may need user’s browser and operating system information to modify certain aspects of your design using CSS or jQuery. WordPress is capable of doing that for you. In this article, we will show you how to add user’s browser… Read More »

We work hard to create titles that give readers and search engines helpful information about what our posts are about. Then we realized that the same should be true about post URLs. A lot of websites use URLs that end up as a jumble of… Read More »

Many WordPress beginners often mix up categories and tags and end up creating a lot of them, which can be puzzling for users. However, you can easily resolve this by bulk moving posts to categories and tags. This can save you considerable time and effort… Read More »

Depending on your site’s demographic, it might be important for you to have a mobile-friendly website. You can do this by either using a responsive WordPress theme which adapts to different screen sizes / devices, or you can create a mobile-specific version of your site… Read More »

When you upload an image in WordPress, it automatically creates several copies in different sizes. Different themes and plugins can further increase the number of sizes generated. This takes up a lot of space in your database and slows down your site speed. It even… Read More »