In this guide, we’ll build a popup for WordPress sites without using a plugin. The popup displays a message to visitors and uses a cookie to remember whether they’ve already seen it – so it won’t appear again on subsequent [...]
Registering ACF fields using PHP reduces the number of database reads and enables the use of Version Control like GIT and similar. The option to define fields via code decreases the chance of losing information that exists in a normal [...]
As you probably already heard, REST API provides you with the ability to interact with your WordPress site externally, for example, from a mobile application or another website. Let’s look at a short code example that describes how you can [...]
In this short post, we’ll see what the correct way is to monitor PHP errors on WordPress sites using WP_DEBUG_LOG. Like most things related to WordPress development, the best way to understand a specific function is to search for it [...]
PHP comments and messages are helpful for WordPress developers to “debug” issues in the code they or others have written. Of course, it wouldn’t be professional if these were displayed for site visitors, so in this short post, we’ll see [...]
WordPress is known to people as a robust and reliable blogging system. People use RSS Feeds to subscribe to new content you publish through third-party applications like Feedly, for example. However, not everyone uses WordPress for a blog, and there [...]
Not infrequently, I found myself in a situation where I wanted to share a post or page that was still in draft mode with someone who is not registered in the system. For example, when someone wrote a guest post [...]
Before diving into WooCommerce hooks, let’s briefly cover how hooks work. Hooks in WordPress allow you to add or modify code without editing the source files, making them essential for developers. There are two types of hooks in WordPress: Actions [...]
If you’re developing with WordPress, hooks are one of the first concepts you need to master. Since modifying WordPress core files is strictly forbidden, hooks are the way to customize behavior. They allow developers to “attach” their own code to [...]
One of the important and less-known APIs in WordPress is the Rewrite API. This API provides the option and functionality to create custom permalink structures.
Dark Mode has become standard on websites and applications. With iOS, macOS, Windows, and Android all offering system-level dark themes, users expect websites to support them too. A dark mode toggle makes your site more accessible to users who prefer [...]
The Polylang plugin is a type of extension that allows you to create a multilingual WordPress site, meaning a site with language diversity. You create pages, posts, categories, and tags as you normally would, define a language for each of [...]