WordPress at a glance

In WordPress 5.0 new content editor Gutenberg was added into the core. It completely changed post editing admin-page and the way the content was written. On some sites,...

This short article is my attempt to answer the common question — what is better: install a plugin to add desired functionality or add custom code in functions.php? And...

There are number of functions in WordPress to get one of the adjacent (neighboring) posts to the current one: get_previous_post() and...

This document lists all the situations where WordPress sends an email, along with how to filter or disable each email.

When uploading a file to WordPress website, WordPress will check the MIME type of the file. Sometimes it's useful to know what the mime file type of a particular file...

WordPress does not allow to upload to the library any type of file you want - there are limitations. Files of non-standard (not allowed, forbidden) types cannot be...

There are hooks that allow you to display any content in a particular place on the admin page of adding or editing any type of post.

Thanks to hooks below, you can...

WordPress has functions that get the date or time of a post, comment, or something else: the_date(), the_time(),...

I present you my new plugin. It counts the number of clicks on a certain link and clicks on file download blocks. It is a more usable alternative to once widely known as...

This post is about the names of the WordPress theme files. And it also reviews which file to include for showing the content of a specific page. This is very important...

Support for page templates ("page" post type) has been unchanged for 12 years. And it helped developers to conveniently create templates for pages, but it has always...

The article shows the ways of creating templates for WordPress pages. Each way has its pros and cons, and before I start, allow me to introduce the meaning of the 'Page'...

As I found out, WordPress does not allow the creation of taxonomies independently, without binding to any post type. I mean, we can register a taxonomy without binding...