WordPress makes it easy to create engaging, multimedia pages by automatically embedding third-party content like YouTube videos and Tweets. However, after working closely with WordPress users for the past 15+ years, a lesson we learned is that oEmbeds can also cause problems. Imagine a YouTube… Read More »
Are you an aspiring WordPress theme designer looking for new ways to use CSS into your themes? Luckily, WordPress automatically adds CSS classes that you can utilize in your themes. Several of these CSS classes are automatically added to the <body> section of every page… Read More »
Have you ever wanted to find out which WordPress theme a site is using? Readers often ask us to help them find the name of a theme they’ve seen on someone else’s website. This allows them to use exactly the same design and layout on… Read More »
Do you want to create a full width page in WordPress, so you can stretch your content across the screen? Most WordPress themes already come with a built-in full-width page template that you can use. However, if your theme doesn’t have one, then it’s easy… Read More »
The top navigation menu on a website typically has links to all the most important pages. When you make this menu sticky, you can keep it on the screen as the user scrolls down the page. That way, it’s always within reach. This makes navigation… Read More »
Want to make sure your WordPress website content looks great on Facebook? You need to add Facebook Open Graph metadata to your WordPress theme. Open Graph metadata tells Facebook and other social media sites information about your WordPress posts and pages, and lets you control… Read More »
Do you want to add custom fonts in WordPress? Custom fonts enhance your website’s typography and user experience by allowing you to use a diverse range of beautiful fonts. At WPBeginner, we’ve added custom fonts to many of our partner websites, so we know how… Read More »
Are you worried about losing your customizations when updating the theme of your WordPress website? One of the best things about WordPress is how easy it is to customize. But unfortunately, there’s a high chance you’ll lose some of your changes when you update your… Read More »
After our infographic on how WordPress works behind the scenes, several users asked us to cover how a WordPress theme works behind the scenes. In this article, we will explain the WordPress template hierarchy for beginners. This cheat sheet is extremely useful when customizing a… Read More »
Sometimes, you might want to remove the author’s name from a WordPress blog post. This could be because your posts are team efforts, or you’re writing for someone else and need to stay anonymous. At WPBeginner, we run a multi-author blog, so we get it.… Read More »