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Craig Buckler shows you how to get a WordPress site up and running for the first time.

Lazy load is another tool in your toolbox to improve page loading speed. The technique decreases page weight and HTTP requests, allowing visitors to see their desired page more quickly. Nick Schäferhoff explains how lazy loading works, lists tools you can use to set it up, and explains what you can use it for.

Nick Schäferhoff goes over how to back up WordPress remotely with the help of UpdraftPlus. The plugin is a great free option to set up basic remote backup for your WordPress site. It also has many premium options that make the experience even better.

One of the biggest changes to WordPress ever is coming soon. Are you ready? How can you prepare? Why is WordPress making this change anyway? These questions and many more have been flying around the WordPress space for nearly a year since the new Gutenberg editor was announced by Matt Mullenweg.

Josh Pollock explains how to add custom routes to the WordPress API, noting that the WordPress REST API is not one API, but millions of highly customizable APIs, which can also be leveraged as a tool for making APIs.

Josh Pollock digs into advanced OOP for WordPress, showing how to use filters to modify the WordPress REST API using an object-oriented approach. He walks through how to create a WordPress plugin to modify the capabilities of WordPress REST API endpoints so they can be better optimized for search.

WordPress starter themes can help to speed up your development workflow, by providing foundational code that will get you started. If you’re new to theme development, they can also be an excellent teaching tool. In this post, we’ll introduce five stellar examples for you to try out on your next WordPress project!

Having a fast site is important for your visitors and search results. How do you achieve that? Adrian Try lists the steps that will make a difference.

Three out of every four WordPress websites are vulnerable to attacks. If your site is hacked, it will not only cost you in terms of restoring the system back to a safe level, but it will also damage your reputation and affect your search engine ranking. Mark Wilson offers ten tips for fixing WordPress security issues.

Jérémy Heleine covers what WordPress pages are, how to manage pages, and provides an overview of some of the functions in the WordPress Pages API.

A well-designed website can serve as a powerful marketing tool. These days, creating one for a small business is not distressing or expensive at all. However, it was just a few short years ago.

Ten of the top WordPress tools and services to supercharge your WordPress website and take it to the next level. From page builders and dynamic tables to website management and marketing tools, there's everything you need for a strong web presence.

Simplify the booking process while making it reliable and error-free with Amelia.

YOOtheme Pro, a new WordPress theme and page builder, ensures a high page speed ranking of your website thanks to its small, clean code base and the use of latest web technologies. Here is how it works.

BeTheme provides a fast and easy way to redesign a website. It offers a selection of more than 350 pre-built website designs.

TemplateMonster and ThemeForest have proven to be the two leading digital marketplaces selling WordPress templates of top quality. Comparing these two options, which one is a better place to buy themes for your websites?

It's not at all difficult to build a decent design portfolio. But if your business depends on how you choose to showcase your work, "decent" usually won't cut it.

Tonino lists tools, tips and best practices for optimizing WordPress sites — from hosting options to asset management, caching and software considerations.

BeTheme is a WordPress theme that has kept up with the latest in design. Here are examples of the 8 most stunning trends.

Ahmed Bouchefra shows how to bring together Bootstrap and WordPress, creating a simple WordPress theme that integrates the latest version of Bootstrap.

Read Want to Build Stunning Sites? Use These Multipurpose WP Themes and learn WordPress with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.

Need to make your own crowdfunding website? Learn about WP Crowdfunding, the best WordPress plugin in the category that does the heavy lifting for you.

Finding just the right WordPress website builder takes time. Your search will be over once you check out Elementor.

You don't have to be technical to build fancy features like attractive galleries, complex layouts, and more, with these smashing tools.

To compete in the mobile search ranking arena, your WordPress site needs to support Google AMP. Here's how.

Check out some of the best premium, multipurpose WordPress themes on the market.

Learn from the best in the business on how to build profitable WordPress themes business. Contains helpful tips and advice from industry experts

Adrian Try takes you through how to launch and validate your new business idea or project quickly, even if you're not a coder.

Produce high-quality client websites faster with Be Theme.

Turn huge amounts of data into comprehensible charts and graphs easily with wpDataTables.