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There’s a number of these - some more specific for certain industries. I’ve covered some of the common ones in Misconceptions by Clients Looking for a Web Platform and 15 Obstacles That Enterprises Report in WordPress and Development Partners. If I have to sum up the ones I heard or read pretty much every week: “WordPress is a simp...

I was about to give Wix some props, but they didn’t give me a chance to, after browsing their website for merely 2 minutes. First off, they have disabled text selection on their homepage. Are we back in 2001, anyone? They claim to be SEO optimized and all that… I wonder how is that even possible given that their premium plans page is n...

Free themes distributed by the official WordPress.org Theme Directory are safe due to their reviewing policy. A theme cannot be released or updated without going through a detailed and thorough manual code review (combined with a few additional automated steps). The free directory is also quite limiting in terms of features. Themes are only...

Some WordPress hosts let you connect your WordPress folder to a git repository in different ways. One popular option is setting up a plain git repository within your project folder. It won’t be connected to any hosted version control system - but it is still a git that you can update in the same manner. Others let you connect a GitHub...

Contributing to WordPress Can Take Various Forms Individual contributors are those who support the WordPress initiative in different directions: Submitting bug reports. Submitting patches for known bugs. Reviewing WordPress themes. Creating and submitting free themes and plugins. Helping out in the support forums. Translating Wo...

Usually, No Commercial WordPress themes generally include a large suite of scripts and styles, along with a comprehensive set of features in order to make them pop. Most premium themes rely on a number of theme options, various widgets, eventually some sliders, content builders, galleries, social media integrations and the like. Each of th...

First off, developers are people who actually specialize in programming. Real developers are platform-agnostic and often language-agnostic since the concepts of software development revolve around solving business problems through algorithms, using data structures and paradigms embedded in the OS layer, web servers, the networking infrastru...

Some workflows depend on staging and production environments while others add an extra layer - a dev server that runs the latest bleeding edge of the application. Structuring WordPress Environments The second approach is structured in the following way: Dev environment is constantly updated with the latest commits by the dev team. The t...

Yes, it’s definitely possible. The way WordPress Multisite is created allows you to build separate subsites within your network that share common plugins (or even themes) while maintaining different sets of content for each site. It's a great way to organize reusable components from a web performance standpoint (optimize ones, use everywhe...

You can easily build MVPs and simple applications with WordPress without coding knowledge. That said, this would inevitably lead to scalability, performance, security, and backward compatibility issues if your application gets some traction. I’ve been compiling a list of common problems for large WordPress websites which uncovers a goo...