Category: Themes

The Best Deals of the Year on Websites and Domains 

The best Black Friday deal isn’t a disposable gadget or a trendy clothing item. Instead, consider something that will help you grow and will grow along with you. Your website isn’t just about your online presence—it’s the foundation for everything you hope to achieve. From today through Cyber Monday (November 27), we’re offering unbeatable deals…

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Asynchronous Methods and Headers: Just Working Isn’t Good Enough

When sending asynchronous requests to a WordPress back-end, which may be a REST API or an Ajax callback, it’s helpful to know what headers to specify when sending said data. Since I recently shared another post about idempotency in REST API design and since asynchronous calls are more common than they have been in the…

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Hot Off the Press: New WordPress.com Themes for November 2023

The WordPress.com team is always working on new design ideas to bring your website to life. Check out the latest themes in our library, featuring beautiful new options for bloggers, photographers, restaurateur, and event planners. All WordPress.com Themes Magalog Magalog is a blog theme designed to display your content in a three-column layout. This theme’s structure…

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You Rarely Get Greenfield Projects (Or Do You?)

TL;DR: I’ve found this to be true in my career. In my experience, whether or not you get a greenfield project depends on your company or the nature of your team. If courses teach you’ll be building more greenfield projects than not, I’d be hesitant to consider it a well-rounded education in software development. Greenfield…

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What Do You Expect From Being a Software Developer?

Not everyone who works in software development has a degree in computer science (or a degree at all), and I’m not suggesting that you should. However, if you have ever taken a class, course, or degree program in computer science, software development, or programming in general, there were likely certain assignments or projects given to…

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From Sawdust to Success With WordPress.com

Jolie Karno will be the first person to admit that she’s not technologically literate. As a wood-turner in Oakland, California, she works with her hands day in and day out and doesn’t want to spend hours fiddling with a website. Of course Jolie needs to make a living, though, so she wanted a website to…

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One Way to Standardized Structure for Must-Use Plugins

The mu-plugins directory can often become full of various files that have basically been dropped in to solve a particular problem for the particular WordPress installation. In my experience, these are often useful plugins but they aren’t structured like more standard plugins. That is, mu-plugins often look like a bunch of files dropped in the…

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NaNoWriMo + WordPress.com = The Ultimate Author’s Toolkit 

NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, is an annual event where writers from all over the world challenge themselves to write a novel in just one month. It’s a celebration of creativity, determination, and the power of storytelling. In addition to sponsoring NaNoWriMo, WordPress.com is offering a special gift to this year’s participants as a…

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Hot Off the Press: New WordPress.com Themes for October 2023

The WordPress.com team is always working on new design ideas to bring your website to life. Check out the latest themes in our library, featuring beautiful new options for bloggers, creators, and small business operators of all kinds. All WordPress.com Themes Programme Programme is a blog theme inspired by legendary designer Massimo Vignelli’s playbills for the…

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Your New Go-To Keyboard Shortcut: Introducing the Command Palette

Can we all agree that keyboard shortcuts have become indispensable to the experience of using a computer? Just think about where the world would be without copy/paste! We may not think about them much, but these combinations of keystrokes have helped millions of people make their daily—even hourly—workflows faster and more efficient.  WordPress already utilizes…

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