December 4, 2020 — If you’re a designer or developer with intermediate knowledge of HTML and JavaScript, and know your way around GitHub and the command line, this tutorial is for you. We’re going to walk step-by-step through converting a WordPress site into a static site generated from Markdown. Read more…

February 11, 2020 — By using the Amelia booking plugin for WordPress, you can create booking widgets that collect more appointments (and revenue) for your clients. This article explains how. Read more…

February 4, 2020 — In this post, we’ll set up a demo site and tutorial for headless WordPress, including a starter template! We’ll use the WordPress dashboard for rich content editing, while migrating the front-end architecture to the JAMstack. Read more…

January 28, 2020 — WordPress adoption is massive. So why would a WordPress site consider moving to JAMstack? In this technical case study, we’ll cover what an actual WordPress migration looks like, using Smashing Magazine itself! We’ll talk through the gains and losses, the things we wish we knew earlier, and what we were surprised by. Read more…

January 23, 2020 — WordPress Multisite allows you to run multiple websites on your server using the same WordPress installation. This article will help you understand every facet of this unique WordPress tool. Read more…

November 28, 2019 — Making our code CMS-agnostic, as much as possible, enables us to easily port our application to another CMS if the need arises. In this article we will learn how to abstract a WordPress application, making its code readily available for other frameworks or CMSs. Read more…

November 18, 2019 — Making our code CMS as agnostic as possible enables us to easily port our application to another CMS if the need arises. In this article, we will learn how code abstraction works, why it is a good idea, and the key concepts to achieve it. Read more…

November 7, 2019 — Gutenberg is reinventing the experience of creating content in WordPress, granting it new powers to create, edit and manage our content. Let’s see what these new powers are. Read more…

October 28, 2019 — The term COPE (“Create Once, Publish Everywhere”) is a methodology for publishing our content to different outputs (website, AMP site, email, apps, and so on) by having a single source of truth for all of them. Let’s explore how to implement COPE using WordPress. Read more…

October 17, 2019 — A postmortem of what went wrong with the launch of Gutenberg, as to allow ourselves to embrace Gutenberg as the product. Read more…